Daniel Guzmán: "The condescension with the poor has a lot of classism"

• Review Daniel Guzmán revolutionizes Malaga with an unclassifiable and voracious comedy about, and against, the pride of being poor

• Gritty Autobiography of a Filmmaker Review

"Wait for me to put the chickens in and we'll talk."

premieres the most unclassifiable, uninhibited and noisy film of the year, but he does it, yes, from the quiet.

It has been seven frantic years of fighting with everyone (including himself) to carry out the most crazy and fun of projects and, now, the neighborhood kid who always was and still is despite his 50 years demands for himself the privilege of the quiet life

"I just came across a group of wild boars," he says.

'

' is the film that follows

What does a neighborhood guy do among chickens? No idea.

I guess I'm already tired of the asphalt.

On the other hand, it comes in handy for writing.

The only thing that distracts you are the chickens, the wild boars, my cats... And then I write.

I've already done many laps.

Maybe I'm getting old. All that's left is for him to tell me that he's going to be a father... I'm not saying no.

My girl has stopped taking the pill.

The problem is that I am a 50-year-old boy.

Let's see what we two children do together? Is it worth dedicating seven years of life to a movie? It's not worth it at all.

On the other hand, in these times of so much correction, being free sucks.

But life goes by too fast and you take too much time away from your people because of the movies.

It's not worth it no matter how much satisfaction it gives you.

This type of cinema hurts. Too pessimistic. On the other hand,

Cinema has changed my life.

I'm not saying making movies so much as watching them.

Cinema has made me a better person.

That is not a set phrase.

And that somehow makes you also want to do the same with others. Regarding this change of life, how far do you think cinema's commitment to transforming reality reaches? I don't know.

I am not a moralist.

The cinema is a tool for you to be the one to answer the questions.

My only commitment is to myself.

My only intention is to share something and make it easier for others to understand the world around us as cinema has made me understand something about the world. Despite everything, his cinema lives determined to vindicate class pride, of the working class. Yes, but not consciously but because my life and my stories are what they are.

I belong to that social majority that lives in the neighborhood.

In this case I have made a social comedy to be contrary.

Much of the cinema that is made now floats like dead fish on the surface of the water: it neither dives to explore the bottom nor flies to breathe the fresh air.

It just dies.

Now everyone says that you can only make comedies for the rich or the middle-rich.

And because?

Yes, in the neighborhoods we also laugh and there is comedy and there is joy.

Condescension is the enemy of fairness and of the narrative itself.

Why does social cinema necessarily have to be dramatic, sad or ugly?

And neorealism?

And the quinqui cinema?

But if we are the majority!

It neither dives to explore the bottom nor flies to breathe the fresh air.

It just dies.

Now everyone says that you can only make comedies for the rich or the middle-rich.

And because?

Yes, in the neighborhoods we also laugh and there is comedy and there is joy.

Condescension is the enemy of fairness and of the narrative itself.

Why does social cinema necessarily have to be dramatic, sad or ugly?

And neorealism?

And the quinqui cinema?

But if we are the majority!

It neither dives to explore the bottom nor flies to breathe the fresh air.

It just dies.

Now everyone says that you can only make comedies for the rich or the middle-rich.

And because?

Yes, in the neighborhoods we also laugh and there is comedy and there is joy.

Condescension is the enemy of fairness and of the narrative itself.

Why does social cinema necessarily have to be dramatic, sad or ugly?

And neorealism?

And the quinqui cinema?

But if we are the majority!

sad or ugly?

And neorealism?

And the quinqui cinema?

But if we are the majority!

sad or ugly?

And neorealism?

And the quinqui cinema?

But if we are the majority!

Joaquín González, Daniel Guzmán and Luis Tosar in a moment of 'Canallas'.

Someone maintained that an insult is better than a condescending look...I like it.

I prefer that no one insult me, but the condescending look with the poor has a lot of classism and a feeling of superiority.

He leaves you defenseless.

Yes, it is worse than an insult.

We all like to be looked at face to face. What makes someone who has somehow traveled the world with cinema continue to have childhood friends? Well, I don't know.

Those people are the ones I've grown up with;

It is the family that I chose and with whom I had a great time.

Also, they are the ones who put me in my place when I get lost. The miraculous thing is that they continue together with the brutal jokes that are spent... That's true.

It's just that we are masochists.

The truth is that by laughing we have no limits, we do whatever.

Every time I'm with my colleagues something always happens.

But yes,

I read myself I should watch. Is it more about laughing with others or laughing at others? I laugh at my friends, because then they laugh at me.

But, above all, the fundamental thing is to laugh at yourself.

I've never taken myself seriously and neither have my friends.

To laugh at others, the fundamental thing is to learn to laugh at yourself.

It's enough to be offended by everything. I think about what happened at the Oscars where a joke ended the way it did... At first, I didn't even believe it.

Like everyone, I thought it was part of the show.

Then I felt, above all, a lot of sadness and a lot of sorrow.

But the worst is what has come later in some forums with the justification of violence.

No matter how bad taste a joke is, nothing authorizes you to hit anyone.

And, furthermore, then there is the macho thing full of testosterone who defends his partner from him... Unfortunate.

What's more,

it was very unintelligent.

He knew he was going to win the Oscar.

He could have dedicated his acceptance speech to saying what he wanted without humiliating himself in that way. Were there those who maintained that it was a neighborhood reaction? That responds, again, to that absurd classism that maintains that only in the neighborhoods is the violence.

No, that is an unforgivable way of stigmatizing.

In the neighborhoods there are educated people like everywhere else. What is the worst joke you have suffered? I don't know.

One day they walled up the door of my house with brick. And what did he do? I don't know either.

I can count the last one we did to Joaquín (star of 'Canallas').

We saw him go to the bathroom and we took the toilet paper from him.

We also put a camera on it.

"Dani, Dani!" We heard him shout.

What followed I don't know whether to tell.

Let's leave it.

It's hard to imagine why Joaquín puts up with it so long.

Where you grow is in suffering.

He smokes a lot, but since he likes to be posh he leaves the cigarettes halfway through.

The problem is that he keeps asking us for money for tobacco.

So one day we put chili pepper in the cigarette.

Don't see how that first puff went.

You have to die laughing.

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