Argentine Cinema

My friend Susana came over, we went for a walk along Calle Lavalle, we felt the nostalgia, nothing is left of what it was when we used to come to the movies. When a show ended we had to elbow our way through, it was a sea of people coming out of the different cinemas, on every block there were between 3 and 5 cinemas on each sidewalk.

With sadness in our souls we went to a confitería in the area, where we used to go afterward, to have something. There I told my friend how moved I was when "La historia oficial" won the Oscar, and no wonder. How many young people asked themselves after seeing it whether they weren't children of the disappeared? We were all moved by the situation of that mother who raised her daughter without knowing the truth.

My friend wanted to break the sad mood and said to me: Since we're talking about children, you know how 2 children raised in the same family aren't alike.

"What do you mean?" I asked her.

"Mamá Cora's children in the movie 'Esperando la carroza,' they say it's a funny film, but if we look at the problem it raises about how the children behave, it's more serious."

My friend burst out laughing and said to me, sometimes with children it's more or less like in the movie "Un cuento chino," you remember the hardware store owner who takes on a Chinese employee who doesn't know the language and in the end manages to understand him through affection, it's the same with children, sometimes they speak to us in Chinese.

At that moment a soccer player walked by on the street, people surrounded him like an idol, it made me indignant, our scientists have to emigrate abroad, win prizes to be recognized in this country, and not always even then.

My friend interrupted me, they show you that in "El ciudadano ilustre," that film is a portrait of Argentine reality.

Of course, my friend said to me, like the movie "9 reinas" and "Relatos salvajes."

I burst out laughing, of that last one what I remember most is the wedding.

At that moment the waiter came to collect payment because the shift was changing and with a smile said to us, nice stroll through Argentine cinema. He had been listening to us.