The aesthetics of failure have always had prestige and glamor in cinema. Provided it is represented by people as hypnotic as Bogart, Mitchum, Newman, Wayne, Fonda, Brando, McQueen. They lost decisive games in their lives, but their charm remained intact and even increased in the perception of the spectators. We admired them even more, but if we ignore those mythological beings we see that losers in real life, without adornment, lead a very hard existence, provoke the compassion of those who observe them, and lack embellishing alibis. They make us observers of their daily ruin tense.
They tell wonders about the truthfulness, feeling and sorrow that the series inspires. Jakarta (Movistar Plus+), created by Diego San José, sir, his proven sense of humor and irony is not allowed here. Everything borders on pathos, sadness and depression. It speaks of the old wounds that remain. It is the story of a very desperate guy who believes he can make up for his permanent defeat in life by training a child to play badminton and making her a champion. Okay. Everything is gloomy behind his desire to vindicate himself with the girl’s victory. Later we will learn about the ancestral reasons for this man’s unhappiness.
I watch the first two chapters with little enthusiasm and am about to put it away. But I continue. There is something that attracts me a lot and it is the interpretation of a teenager named Carla Quílez. This girl transmits truth, bitterness, underground nobility, bad temper. The appearances of Marina Guerola and Pilar Gómez are also very credible, giving life to the generous, but lucid and trembling daughter and wife of the coach.
Javier Cámara seems like a good actor to me, but I almost always have a hard time connecting with his psychological intensity. And of course I don’t have the slightest passion for bingo or badminton. The fact that the character is an alcoholic and is addicted to the point of torment with that lottery does not give him a special appeal for my tastes either. And I’m so sorry for the bullshit you had to endure as a child. I consume this series without much emotion, which so many viewers have felt. Worse for me.
