He is more intelligent, more flexible and his principles are more than a protocol to him. He respects women and he is uncomfortable with rackets, but he could actually do better than the small time crook of his father. In every sense he is more noble than his well bred and mannered father, although a troublemaker. His son in the meanwhile is a problematic teenager who hates his father’s ways, has his sexual wakening and starts to understand what his life is. A future high class singer is only a meal ticket really and when she is not available any more a casual green grocery girl from the neighborhood is good enough as long as she provides a worm bed and a financial solution for a man too good for this world. Women in this story are but vehicles that get him farther on the way. Patty Hearst is in the news, Franco is dying, color TV appears in the market, American military bases are an opportunity rather than a political issue and living on the others seems the only acceptable way to live for a man who is used to another kind of life. The perfect opportunist, he hides the truth about him from his son, his beloved companion in this road movie, but it seems that he believes in his own lies more than his son does.

I am not an expert on the subject but it all makes sense.Īlthough the movie is filled with nostalgic references to the past, which could make it a little autobiographic at points, the general idea here is that a broken man who doesn’t know his real condition, a fallen “aristocrat” who doesn’t accept his new status, tries to make a living by cheating. Watching this film I can’t help thinking that it is an allegory of the social history of this country. Actors: Antonio Resines, Maribel Verdú, Miriam Díaz-Aroca, Fernando Ramalloĭescription: I think.

Carreteras secundarias 1997