About circular movies

January, 25; 2025. By Arscodex

The man who never cried still

We are now going to talk about an interesting topic, which is about "circular" films, that is, those films that are watched and repeated over and over again, so that their evolution becomes a kind of "continuum" where the beginning and the end are melted into the very same thing.

As a recent example, we will quickly mention the Star Wars saga, which is everywhere and has a multitude of sequels, prequels, remakes, reboots, spin-offs and all the benefits of current Hollywood cinema, so it becomes something omnipresent, a "circular" thing. The same thing happens, for example, with The Lord of the Rings.

Well, there is another type of circular film, in this case we can mention The man who never cried and Usa la imaginación, both by Pedro Alonso Pablos, in which the producer has inserted into the very introduction of the film, that part of the beginning accompanied by the main musical theme of the picture, "the film in miniature", and contains scenes from the end without having reached it, that is, in the first bars of the footage.

Why has Pedro done this? Well, because the producer has the intuition that these films are going to become authentic works of Art, that is: they are going to be inserted into posterity over time; and forgive me for the audacity of thinking this and above all saying it so unpolitely. So the normal stage of viewing this film is not to see it for the first time, but to rewatch it, and it is in the rewatch that all this nonsense of putting parts of the end of the film at the beginning of it makes some sense.

This is the idea of "circular" films, a status that certain films can achieve when they are repeated and repeated all over again, for one reason or another, but mainly because of the interest of the film itself (and perhaps a little more help).

Featured links in People