The highly motivated Burmese aerobics teacher who conquered social networks a few days ago
, with her dance alien to the military coup, served so that through this wonderful thread by Nacho Domingo some of us would know the absurdity of Naypyidaw, the neo-capital of that country .
A seeing to believe that leaves the Burmese dancer in a simple vignette.
Something similar happens with the two episodes of
El infiltrado
(Filmin).
We knew that North Korea was a crazy place and we had already had some access to its reality, but Mads Brügger's documentary goes further, infiltrating a guy in that country who mixes the Wes Anderson universe with an orientalism that, yes It wasn't real, it would appear to have been invented ... by Wes Anderson
.
Everything in
The Infiltrator
is bullshit.
Above all, Alejandro Cao de Benós, a quirky character we have known for a long time.
This man who with all his bombast and provincialism claims to be North Korea's link with the rest of the world is a jewel of unintentional comedy.
As part of its aggressive promotional campaign for the documentary, Filmin distributed the delirious statement in which Cao de Benós himself expressed his opinion about it.
If North Korea already looks like a nation invented by Borat, he is a character that Rafael Azcona would kill for.
Now he comes to say that he followed Brügger's game.
Animalic.
The protagonists of
Empires of New York
(Movistar +) are much more dangerous.
This other documentary series investigates the genesis of some of the most mythical names of the rebirth of New York in the 80s. Those who claimed the resurgence of the city of skyscrapers.
Donald Trump is one of them, of course.
You see him in
New York Empires
, being interviewed in his early thirties, and you want to yell at the screen
"stop his feet, when you want to realize this joke will have gone too far!"
.
Like the Rudy Giuliani joke.
Or Leona Helmsley's.
The mogul who was known as "Queen of Mean" is not as present in world pop culture as Trump or Giuliani.
But of course, neither is his a page in history that the sooner we go through the better.
Terele Pávez's phrase in
Las brujas de Zugarramurdi
seems tailored to these people:
"Witches don't scare me ... what scares me are sons of bitches
.
"
Leona Helmsley, who died in 2007, was both.
Rudy Giuliani and Donald Trump are still alive.
And, as long as we continue to believe that he is a real person and not an actor, Alejandro Cao de Benós too.
There are those who believe that
The Infiltrator
cannot be true,
that it is impossible to get such footage from a country like North Korea.
The documentary is sometimes obsessive explaining why this is possible.
Deep down, I would not care if we discovered that everything is a farce and Alejandro Cao de Benós a being played by a great actor.
I wish I could say the same about Trump, Giuliani, Helmsley and
those people who would scare even Terele
.
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