‘The infiltrator’: Carolina Yuste and something else worthy | Culture

The theme of The infiltrator initially it attracts me. It’s action cinema. Increasingly rare and mostly infamous. And it speaks of the nightmare that kept a country in suspense for decades. We were all terrified, although some more than others depending on the proximity of the predator, with the prolonged barbarity of ETA against the oppressors of Euskal Herria. And he tries in vain to imagine what the guilt was, the incarnation of repression, the role of executioners, of those dead, crippled and massacred people who received their biblical punishment for going shopping one day at the Hipercor in Barcelona. That massacre of innocents was the bloodiest, but nearly 900 people were also sent to the cemetery, coldly, without personal reasons, in the perverse existence of the monster. ETA killed everything it could, even if it had wanted more blood. Despite their fierce care, these terrorist professionals could not prevent the infiltration of the police. Until now we knew of the existence of El Lobo. There had to be more. Director Arantxa Echevarría, someone who made her successful debut with the beautiful and credible Carmen and Lolaaccount in Infiltrated a true story with the convenient anonymity of the protagonist and necessary elements of fiction in what she is narrating.

And he does it correctly. Not exciting for my tastes. I see and hear the first part but it doesn’t seem like much to me. It describes the laborious integration of this police into the soft core of the gang, their adventures through the herriko tavernsthe hard need to convince the abertzales that he is faithful to his cause and subsequently that he can assume greater responsibilities in the attacks that ETA is going to perpetrate. For eight years he will live the hell and anguish of absolute simulation, connected underground and receiving orders from a police chief who also has privileged contact with the Ministry of the Interior.

This woman will live through very hard times, in which she must become a simulation professional, annul the organization’s doubts about her personality, play a game of appearances in which she can die, separate herself from her family and friends, swallow a lot of loneliness while waiting for orders. My interest in what they are telling me increases noticeably when the high-altitude murderers appear. The first one, with whom he ends up sharing a house and a bed, is making merits to climb in ETA, he has his point of humanity, he can even fall in love. Although he has killed a person and lives in hiding, he is still an exploitable loser for the bosses of the criminal business. And the second one is very scary and must be very close to reality. Arrogant, bloodthirsty, as dodgy in his expressiveness as in his evil evils, in love exclusively with the power of that gun that he does not let go of even when he sleeps, a beast that, at any proposal from his companions, threatens them with the fatuous and implacable: But do you know who you are talking to? With the appearance of that sinister character, the tension grows, the volcano is going to spill lava.

The one who does not disappoint me in any way is that splendid actress called Carolina Yuste. I believe it in all kinds of situations. He speaks with his eyes: he is capable of getting into the skin and soul of very varied characters. Your work here is first class. But seeing it always compensates me. Even in movies I don’t like.