cien anos de soledad in netflix

im still not sure how things work on here

i would make this a bulletin, but idk if thats friend only.

anyhow, i jst finished up the series in netflix cien anos de soledad. i did read the book an year or two ago, but as cem anos de solidao, in portuguese. 

what surprised me the most is that they told the story bit by bit. there was little cuts in the narrative, if any. i mean, i did read it a long time ago, but as far as i remember, every single thing is included.

making it two seasons was the righest choice really. having seen how many series have trouble in this achievement of the second season, and how well produced it is -- i would suppose there is a significant economic investment behind this level of excellence --, i felt dubious abt it since i finished up the first season. at the very last episode, when i realized the story was half-way through, i was like "oh, what a shame, we'll never see how it would've ended in a production like this." even after seeing in the news it would come out, i was still skeptical and thought it'd be cancelled. in fact, i even forgot abt the series and only realized the second season had been released a month after its actual release date, that was last august. so yeah, its a nice surprise. 

the casting is craaazy, like, how could they find people who look so much alike. i can see those faces being within a family, and idk if its a miracle from the make up or the lighting but damn! and the acting, especially for the female characters, is jst so remarkable. in the first season it didn't happen much, but ive cried along every single sad event.

i also like the soundtrack. the music doesnt take the spotlight of the series but finds its place on the background and compliments it. the scene when jose arcadio comes back from rome, and he takes off the pope clothes, the detail of the pop-iest bowie song playing on the background directs the viewer to this really specific place. spot-on description, and maybe thats what impresses me the most.

the production finds a way to translate a book, a sequence of long phrases and paragraphs, into varied art expressions. not only through monologue, the most obvious one, but through mis-en-scene (which is a term idk if im using right); showing rather than telling, letting the scenario and its details breathe in front of the camera as to let it exhale its meaning directly from its pores. its grounding, its real, its a new read on a narrative that had won the nobel for a reason already. 

i wish i had a movie club like in the old days, jst so i could have a fellow soul to share this with. like wow.