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Pedro Vallín . Colunga (Asturias), 1971. Journalist. He left the cultural information for the parliamentarian (section We can). As a legacy he left me Cago in Godard (Harp publishing house), a book that maintains that the author's cinema is carca and that of Hollywood, progress .

When I saw Godard's 'La chinoise', I thought it was a parody against the left. Then I read that he was serious. I chose Godard for the title because it is the author's archetype, with everything silly, bourgeois and classist around the figure. He is, personally and his audience is ... Godard is a man who has run out of cinema 40 years ago but who goes to Cannes, presents a video and says that the cinema has died. And everyone applauds him. Did you read Anne Wiazemsky's book? No. I watched the movie and I didn't like it. It puts Godard as a capricious child. Billy Wilder said he was a dilettante. He confused his decline with that of the world. Satanized the present because he does not understand. Imagine a 16-year-old kid who tries to build his personality by watching more sophisticated movies than his friends see ... I am that same kid. Everyone ... And I know that there is something snob and classist in that kid, but I see it With sympathy I made that trip and I do not contest it, just as I do not contest the author's cinema. What I dispute is that author cinema is the only tool to express progressivism. The author's cinema is the gourmet store. Eye: the store is gourmet is great; I love it, just like I love Rohmer's cinema, which was the one that built me ​​sentimentally. But it is not even reasonable to believe that this summer roll in Brittany of Rohmer's films has an emancipatory value. I read that Proust was attacked as a rightist and that he said no, that it was a mistake ... The conclusion I draw is It didn't matter. Since I'm not a Marxist, I agree. I think that culture has no political duties; He has political assets. I do not think it is important to consider cinema according to its political message. The problem is the absolutely hegemonic political framework that tells us that Hollywood cinema is conservative and author's cinema is progressive ... I don't think this dilemma is necessary but if we enter the game, let's be rigorous: Pain and glory Is it the best Almodóvar movie? Probably. But it is also the most conservative. Our lives are more like 'Pain and glory' than 'The Princess Bride'. But that does not make it progressive. I claim the common good that represents providing the viewer with dreams and wonders. In your generation, among your friends, have you encountered many cultural Marxists? No. But the groove is. The groove is Marxist and deeply Frenched. I would say that we have shifted the political judgment to a moral judgment: 'The Irish' seems bad to us because few women leave. One thing is the public discussion, which is now evident in the networks, and Another thing is critical analysis. The Irishman seems fascinating to me, but that does not preclude other debates that have to do with political correctness ... I think good political correctness, careful. It is the way society has to regulate itself without laws. It can be heavy, but it has no risks. People say: I have been lynched in the networks! Let's see, lynching ... If lynching is being called an asshole on Twitter, it's not that bad. Political correctness also makes rude judgments and does not attend to nuances. That is not political correctness, they are social networks, they are interfaces. The proof is that in the car, which is another interface. We are also worse, more aggressive people. The book ends up in that the fullness of culture consists in sharing it. But I am not sure: reading a novel is better than going to a literary festival; in the cinema, deep down, we are always alone; and having a song that moves you is better than going to a concert. In the case of the novel I can accept it. The novel is made from intimacy to intimacy. In the case of cinema I do not agree. In cinema, a way of seeing Vatican II style has been imposed, which was not always the case. In the cinemas of the 60s he shouted and laughed ... And even today, a good movie does not end until you discuss it with friends at a bar table. The deputies of Podemos, are more cultured than average ? When they arrived, yes; also those of Cs. Then, bipartisanship raised the level ... They are cults, but they have that somewhat paranoid bias of reading it all based on a black hand behind. Something very Marxist ... Well, Iglesias and Garzón are finer.

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