Strange Sunday, yesterday, in which the networks contained matters that were not football. Even some that were not sport. They were trending "My president", "subnormal" and "José Sacristán". All three, for the elections. The first, due to the visit of Pedro Sánchez to the podcast La pija y la quinqui. The second, because the Vox fandom wanted to convey with that noun that "my president" could not be an allusion to Sánchez, it had to be Santiago Abascal. And the third, because the Spanish actor – who has always had an outstanding oratory, which he accompanies with that gravelly voice like the movement of the mountains – has given a press conference in Buenos Aires, where he premiered Lady in Red on a Gray Background, play based on the novel by Miguel Delibes, and when asked about the situation in Spain, he improvised this soliloquy: “I am optimistic and melancholic. You see, I identify with the lucidity of the loser. I know that the war is lost and I am going to die surrounded by sons of bitches, bastards, thieves, fools. But you have to go out and fight the daily battle of dignity to defend those things that one considers essential. There is then a latent melancholy in my behavior, knowing that something is always getting out of hand, but in an optimistic way: You have to face adversity with joy and rigor. There is something of a feeling of a lost war, but also of the battle of every day to fight”.
In other words, Sacristán does not trust the latest CIS poll that puts the left ahead and suspects that there will be neo-Francoists in the executive. The paradox is that this musing seems to be taken from A Place in the World (1992), a film by Adolfo Aristaráin starring Federico Luppi and José Sacristán. In one of the most remembered scenes, Mario (Luppi) and Hans (Sacristán), both embody the two toxic passions of the losing left. Mario is the defeated left: “In the end, we are all on the same side, with those who lost. I do not say "a battle was lost, but not the war", I say "if the war has been lost, at least I want to have the luxury of winning a battle". Mario is Sacristán in Buenos Aires. And Hans, on the other hand, embodies the next stage, condescending desistance, that is, cynicism: “The war was won by the primates. The strength of the species against Christ, against Marx, against Bakunin. The triumphant return to the night of time. Each one to his tree and to fight. Liberty, fraternity... milk! Sounds really good. It sounds great but it's boring. We are primates and we cannot change. Risk makes us feel alive. The risk, the adventure, the struggle for life. Nothing amuses us as much as smashing the head of the person next to us and eating his liver. Of course, with a little garlic and parsley, to make it even civilized”.
Keep them in mind, because if the coalition government does not win the confidence of the voters, we are going to witness the demographic explosion of the Marios and the Hanses.
