The director of Puan, Benjamin Naishtat, celebrated this Monday the positive premiere of the national cinema film and highlighted how very emotional scenes occurred with viewers in theaters across the country during the first screenings of the film released a week ago.
For Naishtat, the emotion he detected among many viewers originates in the way in which the film addresses the very idea of the existence of the public university, at a time when the extreme right attacks public education forcefully, in the run-up to the elections of October 22.
“That was like an abstraction. And suddenly now people go to see the movie and find that moment. They ask us if we are prophets. They cry,” she noted.
In the middle of an election year, with promises of privatization, he added: “There are very moving scenes. The people from Humanities in La Plata told us that it was like the present.” “Things are up in the air. Those of us who dedicate ourselves to expression sometimes unconsciously adapt things that are floating around in the air,” he added.
In statements to AM750, he maintained that it is not a phenomenon that occurs only in the country, but that in several places they have already bought the rights to the film because the question about the role of the humanities echoes throughout the world.
“This weekend a lot of notes came out about the film. Even one from the newspaper La Nación where they valued the Humanities, which are being heavily attacked around the world,” he began by explaining.
And he added: “In Spain a journalist told us that there was a debate about taking philosophy in high school. And he believed that the film could be an enhancement.”
For the film director, the world is in a time in which, suddenly, “thinking seems like a kind of act of resistance in the face of a world that is heading straight into the abyss without asking too many questions.”
“The film tries to leave you thinking. That’s what cinema has to do, slap you in the face,” concluded Naishtat.
2023-10-09 17:42:55
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