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As some (and some) say, politics is not a Netflix series.
It is from HBO.
And we do not speak of the already popular and even conjunctural
Baron noir
as of
Collective
, by
Alexander Nanau
.
In reality, it is only a documentary, the most surprising and brutal in its extreme simplicity in recent times.
Nothing more.
Since its presentation in
Toronto
and
Venice
In 2019 so far on the aforementioned platform, the film has done nothing but fulfill its mission of, from the cinema, dignifying politics.
And backwards.
It is told what happened in the country since the fire in October 2015 of the club that gives title to the production.
Then, the flames instantly devoured the lives of 27 people.
The place did not meet the minimum conditions, but was kept open by the rigor of the economy in the face of security.
Nothing that surprises us anymore.
For that and for the bribes, of course.
However, the worst came later, when it was discovered that the rot was reaching the hospital systems themselves, eaten away by commissions to managers and doctors, and the pharmaceutical industry, which offered diluted and ineffective disinfectant.
And so on until reaching the 64 corpses and countless wounded with the evidence of corruption in their bodies in the form of scars like furrows.
Now, the film arrives at the April Oscars ceremony with two nominations.
The first for the extraordinary documentary that it is and the second, for the international production that it is also.
"Actually, and however local it may seem, it is a universal story. Apart from the details that have to do with Romanian life, it is a story of ambition and power, and how far you can go to maintain that power. That goes for any country at any time. You read it in novels, in the Bible and you see it in movies, but the rottenness of human nature, even within so-called developed societies, is there, "says Nanau.
In any case, the truth is that the film itself, a great success in its country, draws up the minutes of the social movement, almost revolution, lived in Romania after the dense network of crossed interests was revealed that served as a breeding ground for the tragedy.
"The
Collective
case
has seen the largest demonstrations that the country had seen since the Romanian Revolution of 1989, when the dictator
Nicolae Ceausescu
was overthrown," he says.
The documentary is limited to following the facts with a precision very close to the very simple and very infinite patience.
Each one of the steps of the journalist
Catalin Tolontan is followed
, who from the sports newspaper
Gazeta Sporturilor
uncovered everything that happened.
The camera is simply limited to being.
Without judging, without commenting, without even clarifying anything.
Like a fly on the wall.
"The idea is not to intervene, not to ask questions, not to act," says Nanau.
And so on until the most obvious of realities acquires the texture and tension of a thriller, of a natural thriller we could say.
In effect, the real is fiction.
And backwards.
"It is a story about corruption, but it is also about incompetence. Actually, the two things go hand in hand. The corrupt need incompetents in command to be able to influence them and the incompetent can only stay in power with a network of Effective corruption. And that concerns everything: the media, the judicial system, civil society and politics itself. Judges, for example, do not act against doctors because in the future they may need their services, and doctors and hospital managers can allow themselves to be corrupted and profit from the purchase of fraudulent disinfectants because they know that no judge is going to go against them. It is not just a political question, it is everything, "Nanau reasoned in a row with a certainly sinister clarity.
In the movie, of course, the victims also speak.
One of them is
Teddy Ursulescu
.
She, in her thirties, was saved because she was transferred to Vienna.
With no fingers on her hands and her skin turned into the map of ignominy, she simply shows herself.
The camera travels through his body and in each frame all the tragedies of which Shakespeare himself was capable are suddenly discovered.
"It is difficult," reasons the director, "to know exactly how everything that happened after the fire happened. The system seemed quite invulnerable. However, a sports newspaper, due to its non-partisan status and away from the noise of the politics of the day Today, he was the one who uncovered everything. Actually, only they can investigate something in
Romania
. The rest depends on the money of people who do not want anything to be investigated. Then, as the facts became known, more and more whistleblowers. And so on until they have gone, despite many reluctances, changing things. There is still hope ", reflects Nanau.
And he concludes: "Yes, the cinema can change something."
Indeed, politics can be a documentary.
From HBO.
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