Pseudo-SF because the monster is real
Movie REVIEW Espíritu sagrado film directed by Chema García Ibarra Spanish-French-Turkish production Castellano-Catalan Actors: Normal People Central Theme: Missing persons The film begins with a scene at school, where some little girls read their compositions and let the viewer know that the education is based on specific categories. In the background, the TV is on and ¨Un nuevo amanecer¨ is advertised with great importance even if it´s not clear what it is. Under the influence of television, El Malo (The Evil) is falsely identified as Romanians. No one sees a Romanian or hears one, but being the scapegoat in the area, all the evils with an unknown author are put on him. The social dynamics unfold similarly to those in the story of Putois by Anatole France, a character who was blamed for any misdeed in the area. The myth of the casual worker who is dirty and does all the bad things possible circulates throughout Europe and refers most of the time to a misconception, prejudices related to the novelty or in this case, to the traveler, the immigrant, the person in need, which is to be found in traditional stories, books, films, music, and so on. Many if not majoritary societies have used it by force as a negative element. (Who is your Bau bau, the scapegoat in your area?) Confused and easy to manipulate people believe in who knows what aberrations and deliver their nieces to the bad guy in exchange of after-life promeses. In all this mix between extraterrestrial ideas and religious ideas the Myth of Faustus makes its categorical presence as there are negotiations going on. In these conditions, the problem solving related to the group goes totally wrong, touching the absurd and the grotesque. Group reactions are horror reactions and very dangerous. Domestic violence is resolved by the demand for opinions of "powerful women", who can read in the magic globe, superimposed ideas, in an amalgam of susceptibility. The media, in the background, spreads conspiratorial information, confusing the locals, who oscillate between good and bad, from whom to ask for help in solving problems. All this happens in a society of workers, people with hard lives, tired and vulnerable. About sacrifice The drama arises from the perspective of sacrifice, which is carried out by mistake, in the illusion that there is some “superior being” more important than the child itself, and trying to do good or believing that they are doing so, people end up sacrificing their children, in exchange for strange ideas of “immortality”. The girl, like any kid, does everything her uncle, her relative, tells her because he is "a trustworthy person." The imaginary defendantIn a world full of superstitions, fear of death and dreams of immortality infiltrated by the media, this influenced fear is based on group prejudices about "la gente del este", who are automatically blamed if something happens. Justice is far awayEveryone desperately believes in what they can or in everything. We are facing a world of generational dementia, where grandmothers seem to have mastered magic, while icons of saints occupy the walls, and La Virgen walks the streets, with great aplomb and everyone dreams of immortality. The police investigate the drunks, therefore blaming the vulnerable people goes on in contemporary times, demonstrating once more that the Putois phenomenon is still active, even institutionalized. The suspense is concentrated on this permanent scarry imaginary presence of the scapegoat: Eastern Europeans, Romanians although throughout the film no Romanians were seen. It´s a reality where the clairvoyants, spiritual speakers, superstitions, metaphysics and religious ideas go all together, an easy to manipulate social groups, that are so absorbed by fictive ideas. This film is a pure demonstration of how brainwashing works and the dangers of not observing what is around us and the silent horror of the reali
