This short film contains a very important message, as the director himself expresses: “It is not a duel in the style of the Cowboys movies , but it is a duel between the box office of a gym where the space is inversely proportional to the mental distance of the that match on it.
(AB)Normal 24 March (2021)
A(Normal) (original title)
What is normality? Miguel Parra, TV presenter and journalist, reflects in this fourth short film of his career as a filmmaker the ambiguity of this issue. Every day we listen to all kinds of speeches oriented towards this objective that no one knows exactly how to specify and that is how he expresses it in (AB)Normal.
After a preamble loaded with intention, the plot takes place in an environment that is both everyday and somewhat uncomfortable, almost hostile, such as the men’s locker room in any gym. There the personalities of four men plunged into an absurd situation full of tension confront each other. After a few moments that border on violence, the outcome presents the reality of the four protagonists showing their features starkly, showing that normality is as particular as the essence of each person, and where prejudices remain under the soles of sports shoes.
This short film contains a very important message, as the director himself expresses: “It is not a duel in the style of the Cowboys movies , but it is a duel between the box office of a gym where the space is inversely proportional to the mental distance of the that match on it. (A) Normal tells us about a current issue, but in the end what he wants is to raise a mirror in which to look at ourselves and speak to understand. It is also a metaphor for these times of tension, where insult has taken the place of ideas and dialogue. As Atticus Finch said in ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’: You have to put yourself in the shoes of others and walk with them ”.
