In this film, more than narrating
events, I have tried to analyze feelings and contradictions
inherent in human beings. There are feelings for which we are ready
and others we are never ready to cope with. We are poorly equipped
mentally for intimate relationships. Actually, it's worse than
that; I think we are poorly equipped to handle things when our
relationships fall apart, when we are disappointed in love. No
matter how much you realize things aren't working out, when that
happens, everything becomes disrupted; the pulse, the vital rhythm
of our lives is altered. I was very much interested in delving into
that frustration, which is many times stronger than a physical
disease. When one has an illness, he fights against it, but when
one is heartbroken, not only does the person not fight against it
but actually seems to take pleasure in constantly racking his
brains over it.
[...] Together with Ángeles
González I have created a character, but it is the actor that
brings life and color to that character. In the film, the actors
have conferred on the character a fundamental truth; how to make a
relationship between two men credible. The text, the script, cannot
accomplish that. It is the actors who use the tools, skills and
personal bonds so that the viewers actually see them on the screen
as a couple. That can't be created as if it were an adventure of
Captain Blas (the famous Spanish seaman) in which he, in heroic
fashion, takes a leap, pulls out his sword and slices off someone's
head. Here, the actor has to subtly pull some intimate ropes to
work and perform successfully.
GERARDO VERA