Bosé finishes off Dominguín, that “icon of Francoism”

It is very addictive, it is very engaging, the audiovisual autobiography that has just been released Miguel Bosefor weekly deliveries, on Movistar Plus+ (‘bosé reborn‘). The start is tremendous.

Says bose, remembering the torment of his childhood and early youth, when he suffered the contempt of his father, continually calling him effeminate and ‘faggot’: «I have two clear culprits for everything that happened to me. And I told myself: go for them! (…) That was not a family, it was a trap. The truth is that I grew up without parents. When they arrived he said to myself: let’s see if they leave soon, because they don’t bring anything good. But bose distinguishes: one thing is his father “the macho icon of Franco’s regime” who loved being invited to El Pardo, the regime’s hunts and the other hunting trips that his codpiece was involved in, and another is his mother, who had to swallow until he decided to separate after 12 terrible years.

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In this first episode broadcast bose becomes parricide. That is very fascinating on television. It has not been a patricide in a bloody or fierce tone. Has not used bose that lugubrious, tremendous tone from when he talked about the coronavirus. This time she has drawn his father, avoiding adorning the portrait with brushstrokes of acrimony. With the story, slowly, he already conveyed enough rawness. The memory of when Dominguin He took him, by force, to Africa –bose He was 11 years old – to kill animals so that he could become a man. It was a humiliating journey. The boy didn’t want to. The father forced him. He ended up contracting malaria. He was about to die.

In the times of ancient Rome, parricides were tied alive inside a sack and thrown into the water (‘Poena cullei’, that is, the punishment of the sack). In the time of the emperor constantine, They added poisonous snakes inside the bag. In case of bose It is different: it is a deferred patricide, that is, it finishes off the father 27 years after he died. In Rome they would never have condemned him to anything. And most importantly: it is one’s own bose who leads and stars in the story of his life. There is nothing more terrifying than those on TV who make your biography, at their leisure, as has usually happened lately. As that perceptive and very sharp English writer said, quentin chrisQ: An autobiography is an autoobituary that only lacks the last installment, the final chapter.

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