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This is the problem with Spain: there's nothing we like more than beating each other up.
One of the best theatre plays in the 20th century was Las bicicletas son para el verano (Bikes are for the summer), a coming-of-age story set in the Spanish Civil War. The main character wants his father to buy him a bicycle, and the father says he'll do it in the summer. On July 18, civil war breaks out. In the Spring 3 years later, the war ends, and the boy reminds his father of the promised bycicle since "peace has now arrived". The father retorts "it's not peace that has arrived, victory has arrived".
We don't learn. guaranteed to evoke a violent reaction from police is to challenge their right to "define the situation." --- David Graeber citing Marc Cooper
It was a children-love story, of a c. 10-year-old girl and boy meeting in a Spanish village, and the one scene I remember was when the boy proved his boldness by putting his finger at the end of a gun and then firing it, turning his finger a bloody pulp...
The story was framed in a later-years story of the grown-up girl receiving the news of the death of the grown-up boy in the Spanish Civil War (and receiving his diary). Possibly the film was a literary adaptation.
Could you or kcurie identify this film for me? *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
