Winter fogthe Indian series that develops in Punjab, surprises for several reasons. In the first place, because their screenwriters – Gopra Chopra, Sudip Sharma and Diggi sisodia – have transcended a police plot offering at the same time a valuable information about the habits and customs of a predominantly SIJ society, the ninth religion of the world from a quantitative perspective. It is also surprising that among these customs stands out and normality is accepted by violence by the police absolutely disproportionate. There are no interrogations, there are balls. Finally, the place that the woman occupies in that society is also recorded: less than zero, that is, marriages concerted outside their will and domestic slavery.
The six chapters of the series offered by Netflix begin with a young couple who enjoys sex in a field close to the place where they live. One thing is Sijismo and another pleasure. I already satisfied their wishes discover the body of a young local, Paul, killed on the eve of his wedding. The investigations of a sub -inspector and a local police agent who, in turn, develop their work with an overload of interior conflicts. If something is clear in Punjab, in addition to the enormous class difference reflected in some great mansions and the many huts, no one is free of suffering. And despite everything, the series is effective in that eagerness to keep the armchair attached to those who contemplate it.
Of course, if it is preferred to see a real miniseries, two chapters, which occurs in England of the fifties of the last century and co -produced by the BBC, see The Outcastbased on the homonymous novel by Sadie Jones, which also adapted it to television. It is a story of a misfit that contemplated his mother’s drowning when he was ten years old and who grew up with an little affectionate father who married again. Lewis Aldrigde’s maladjustment, with an excellent interpretation of Finn Elliot, was growing to the compass that his rebellion. He recorded this by burning the local parish with its corresponding stay in a reformatory.
I think the story of The Outcast (Movistar+) has a certain relationship with The 400 blows, of Truffaut. Series and feature film tell us about marginalized teenagers who survive lonely in worlds that do not understand and in those who are harassed by their rebellion.
