• Donald Sutherland. "The attitude of the UN on the environment is crap"

'Sanctuary' is a documentary so deeply optimistic that it allows itself the luxury of ending a small failure. Indeed, when the world voted nothing on the protection of the last virgin area of the planet, Antarctica, three countries, only three, opposed and ... start over. However, the work was already done. Thanks to the Greenpeace campaign in which the brothers Javier and Carlos Bardem actively participated, what once seemed to be a problem of professional politicians with a lack of imagination, is now what it always was and will be: a problem for everyone. Of absolutely everyone. The film directed by Álvaro Longoria tells just that: the story of a media campaign, scientific and, of course, political.

Javier says that what moved him to get involved, beyond the responsibility or desire to know the pole, was the simple and natural fact of being a father: "Now, my children are 8 and 6 years old, but I imagine that when they turn 18 They will look at me and ask me: And what the fuck did you do? And I want to be able to tell you that I did everything I could and they left me, with all my clumsiness and ignorance if you want, but ... If the fact of being known or famous can serve so that the message against the plastic arrives and spreads more, because I accept the challenge ". And there for now, leave it.

In fact, the film rather than portray and serve as a simple logbook of what the campaign was, which also tries to reflect on the influence and depth of arguments as far from the street as social networks, fame, commitment ... Carlos takes the floor: "Social networks are the trumpets of Jericho today. The culture of likes is very dangerous , because now it is easier than ever to calm your own conscience. It is like recycling, in a certain sense. When you consume a plastic bottle and put it in a yellow drum, you feel good , but you should feel bad about using it. That is the key. " And indeed, all that reflection is in 'Sanctuary'.

The brothers tell us that we are approaching a dystopia. They say it with the forcefulness of a surname that refuses to hide. "We are about to abandon what was an ecological utopia and enter the field of catastrophe," Carlos continues. We no longer live a climate change but a state of climatic emergency , which is different. "And that said and without it being entirely clear who says what and what motivates who begins recriminations, or accusations directly." It makes no sense that a country like Spain produces eight times less solar energy than Germany, "says one." How things are going to change in our country if the withdrawal of many of the politicians, from those who would have to do something, is on the councils of administration of the electricity companies that earn millions without any change. Those gentlemen are the ones that prevent the necessary transition, "concludes the last one, which was actually the previous one. And so on.

For Javier, what is really relevant is what people like teenager and activist Greta Thunberg do . "She represents a generation that does not have the historical , political, economic and social weight that we carry behind us. They are telling us that what we have done so far does not work. And they insist that we have to demolish the house and rebuild it. It is not enough to paint it, "says Javier. "We ask ourselves: How the hell do you live without plastic? How do you travel from one country to another without using kerosene? And they say: You have to do it, period," says Carlos.

In the documentary they are seen sinking deep into the ocean in a submarine. That and kick offices with the claims. That and approach the penguins. That and attend by conference the results of a vote that in the end was not. The two brothers arrive in San Sebastian just after Bolsonaro spoke of the Amazon at the United Nations. Now, the answer. A duo: "Bolsonaro, Trump, and people like them are delectable. They are militants of denialism and the economic interests of the elite . Climate denialism, like any type of denialism, can only be understood from evil or ignorance. And then there are the wicked ignorant , who are the most dangerous of all. This is the case of the 'trumps', the 'bolsonaros', the 'salvinis' and the 'abascales'. "

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