“Like those shit series that you like,” says one of the characters of ‘The Eternaluta’ To another, while leading in full apocalyptic situation, to describe what they are living. And it is that the extreme and close circumstances to the ‘end of the world’, no matter how much a spout that our lives rule any Monday, were always a matter of science fiction and not of the real world.
Netflix’s new number 1 part of a rooted dystopian concept, to delight the plasimilists, in the most absolute normality. As if it were one of the productions of Irwin Allen in the 7s; One of those films full of catastrophes and multi -star delivery that faced the earthquake, snowfall or sinking on duty.
In just a few days, the adaptation of a legendary cartoon in Argentina since its publication, in the 50s of the last century, has reached the Netflixian glory. Its authors, the screenwriter Héctor Germán Oesterheld and the cartoonist Francisco Solano Lópezthey would never have imagined that the horrifying universe they devised about 70 years ago, when the SCI-FI was more fashionable than ever, it would become a great production that everyone is talking about these days.
After the lack of electricity and the situation of uncertainty, it blackouts through, last Monday, we can feel identified with those poor Argentines who do not know Why the snow that falls on a Veraniego Buenos Aires kills them fulminantly.
Directed with solvency and abundance of media (those that always missed when planning an audiovisual translation) by Bruno Stagnaro, ‘the eternalist’ cares about presenting their characters over low heat and creating situations of unressesy tension through assembly and an ‘invisible’ but millimeter planning. Small subsistence episodes make up a compact whole, entertaining and extremely addictive.
Even with the logical differences in the plot (we are talking about a comic that was published too long in the magazine ‘Hour Weekly’), ‘The eternal’ television is more or less faithful to the original work, who only knew a few lucky outside of Latin America. There is, in fact, a work of worship.
-As we advanced when talking about the plot, a toxic snowstorm ends with much of the population, leaving a few supervientes in the Argentine capital. Juan exceptthe protagonist, tries to leave the house of his friends, place where the disaster catches him, to find his daughter.
We will not know of the destination of the young woman, the main engine that activates the protagonist embodied by Ricardo Darín, until some chapters. In a model, to arouse interest about the destiny of the young woman, nothing better than a prologue in her is the protagonist; The first character to discover the strange storm that suddenly kills his friends when all are aboard a yacht.
A péguda situation and presented in the first minutes that gives way to several sequences in which those that the common of real life (a game of cards, a talk between friends) is thinning until its characters are isolated, which are protected from mortal snow.
One of the risks of the series was The visualization of the ‘Cascarudos’ (Spoiler from here), that kind of giant beetles responsible for what, after the Ecuador of the series, turns out to be an alien invasion. The truth is that the result is not only up to it, but the director is intelligent enough to dose the presence of the ‘bugs’ and not lose the realistic connection achieved in the previous episodes.
As in all survival cinema, ‘The Eternaluta’ is not original when it comes to capturing how, in borderline situations, the human being is capable of the best, but also the worst. In this case, the alien danger remains in nothing before human selfishness and an instinct of survival he faces, as the song said, brother against brother and father against a son.
In the epicenter of this chaos, Ricardo Darín is the main character, the lighthouse with which the viewer is identified. It helps, and much, that the actor is a true Argentine symbol that falls to practically everyone. Thanks to him we can be interested in this entertaining (although as we said, little original) history of survival and expect one more than safe second season that has not yet begun to shoot.
