Between heaven and hell

"A gem!" exulted the Orfeó Català at the Barcelona Auditorium on Friday night with the OBC.Fried!", echoed in the concert hall. "Brothers, embrace, a great kiss sets the heavens ablaze," they proclaimed. And it was shocking, because you noticed that between Netanyahu, Hamas, Trump, Putin and others responsible for the deplorable state of the world, they had almost transformed the hearing of the Novena by Beethoven in an act of naivety.

I was still humming the piece when I sat down in the cinema seat to seeOne battle after another[One Battle After Another], a protest film, one thriller politician who will become a thriller historic, for the portrait it paints of the present: the immigrant detention camps, the rage of the excluded, the racism, supremacism, and paramilitary machismo that spread, greased by money and the ideological drugs of "America first."

As a purely cinematographic artifact, the film achieves a constant tension and rhythm that keep the attention despite its length, with moments of humor and human nobility, and rests on two excellent performances by Leonardo DiCaprio and Sean Penn, which make it a candidate for all the awards Hollywood wants to give it. The sad thing is that it resembles reality so much that there are sequences that seem taken from a newscast, so you leave the theater with a dose of reality, with the thick malaise of the times we live in multiplied by fiction.

Between the heaven of the concert and the hell of the film, there were the demonstrations in favor of Gaza. They couldn't have been joyful, but the decency of the streets recalled Schiller's embrace, which, despite the paralysis of fear, we can't let ourselves be taken.