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‘El precio de la red’: colgados de las redes. Luego pasa lo que pasa

Hay guionistas y directores que te obligan a seguirles continuamente la pista, como Aaron Sorkin, aunque la temática de algunas de sus obras me resulte tan ajena como Facebook

A writer or director often pressures you to constantly follow their trail, even if the subject matter of some of their works is as alien to someone like the author as quantum physics or Mandarin language learning. The issue is mine, of course, as almost the entire human race is familiar with what they are talking about or uses those things they apparently need to live or survive.

They are social media, WhatsApps, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook... things that apparently are as necessary as eating and sleeping. And referring to a surreal expression from another era that always made me laugh, I feel lost in that universe as a squid in a garage.

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