The challenge: ETA
, is a splendid documentary series.
And very hard.
I have seldom seen the suffering of the victims of the terrorist gang portrayed with greater courage: they are the protagonists, but they neither have the solutions nor have they ever had them.
Their opinions and their stories are, however, much more relevant than those of someone passing by.
That Hugo Stuven (Jr.) has it very clear.
His series establishes a very clear limit from the beginning: everyone deserves to be heard but not all speeches are respectable.
The eternal debate about whether it is intolerance not to tolerate the intolerant is solved by Stuven by putting before the camera people capable of defending authentic atrocities.
The challenge: ETA
offers a camera to talk to supporters and members of the band
.
The rest of the series is the answer to his delusions.
No hysteria, no paternalism, no fear, and no shame.
The Amazon Prime Video series does not skimp on explicit images
of the horrors of terrorism: the corpses, the blood, the memories so detailed they border on nightmare.
It's important pointing that
The challenge: ETA
confronts us without anesthesia with the children and the not famous victims
, the dead who are often left, out of sheer modesty, extracted from the story, cleaning up the operation of ETA in a sinister way.
That does not happen in this series.
On the other hand, the leaps (because there are several) from the almost tolerable violence (the primordial guerrilla perceived as anti-Franco resistance) to the indiscriminate butchering organization directed by psychopaths are very well explained in
The Challenge: ETA
.
Hugo Stuven and David Zurdo, director and screenwriter, organize the series chronologically, choosing with great care all the knots in its narrative thread.
Most correspond to atrocities committed by the gang.
The series not only does not avoid them, but it exposes them frontally.
The effect is very powerful: almost everything that appears in
The Challenge: ETA
had already seen it, but rarely, perhaps never, had everything been put together to create
a single piece of this power.
Add to that some truly exceptional testimonies and
an idea of respect for the victims who run away from the common places and the almost inevitable perversions of the revenge discourse
and what you have is a series that, this one, was necessary. lightly that adjective to refer to more or less instructive or well-intentioned fictions.
However, these do not stop being fictions and fiction, no matter how often it explains reality more efficiently than an informative or an essay, can always be questioned for being precisely that, fiction.
Hopefully what Hugo Stuven and David Zurdo address in
The challenge: ETA was
also.
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