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Miquel, the assistant director, looks sideways at Felix Tusell, the other producer and me. It makes you aware of the gravity and sense of a simple look. Suddenly, we all become aware of the inevitable: the last shot of Time will be filmed later, the film with which José Luis Cuerda closes the prodigious circle that he began to draw in Dawn, which is not a little in 1989. Maybe it was before, when half the world was surprised with Total's new television . Humor began a new cycle that now, right in Miquel's gaze, lives its last chapter. Tradition says that he will then have to announce that the movie is over, people will applaud, hug and the end will be celebrated. It was not so. Spontaneously, after the applause, the whole team began to shout: "Poet! Poet! Poet!"

José Luis could not stand so much praise, he could not stand everything we felt embodied in that childish cry . Childish and true. We all felt it as true. And we felt it for what we had lived in that shoot, for what we had laughed, for what we had achieved. He, who considered poetry as the highest artistic expression, could not help but cry. His tears were skipping. And he made mutis as tragic and good actors. It was overwhelming.

Thank you José Luis for misplacing us all, for showing us that way of doing comedy in the cinema that we had not seen until now, for that punk spirit capable of skipping conventions just by citing them. You proved that using the absurd to explain everything is possible. And necessary. You made making the local universal universal privilege of La Mancha. Only. Few authors have the ability to create a language that is later embodied in society beyond the recurring television crutch. Here we talk about locutions and aphorisms so deep that they even echo. One of those phrases that makes more sense today than ever is that which says that we are all contingents, but only people like you, José Luis, are necessary. For your critical thinking, for your lucidity to dissect the human condition, for your unbelieved vision of the world, for your art. Total Dawn today , which is not little but you know That here in heaven as on earth Time later we will continue to remember you. Until forever, poet. Poet! Poet! Poet!

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