The demands of the ‘Milana Bonita’ collective, which join those of all Extremadurans who live isolated from the rest of the world, from whom we cannot afford plane flights, neither like or do not want to drive, and we got dizzy on a bus in the one that probably doesn’t have a toilet Essential for people of certain ages, they make us remember ‘The Holy Innocents’, a film that iconically and ideologically symbolizes our condition as marginalized.
There is a paradox in this movie that deepens our frustration. One of the starting sequences is the arrival at the Zafra station of the young Quirce dressed as a soldier while his sister Nieves is waiting for him on the platform. Then they go to the canteen, where the girl will tell the boy the things that have happened in his family during the stay in the ‘military’. Well, at the time of the action, the sixties, there were many more and better trains in our region than today …
