Shades

Ignacio Ortega Writer Shadows in the center of Almeria, in any street, sniffing beggars open dumpsters-a sort of giant stink bombs around us, in search of food and old clothes. About the air becomes unbreathable and foul odor grave while you soar dozens of flies towards you. Urban night-shadows look like that phantasmagoria that launched the beginnings of cinema magic lanterns on the white walls of our streets, that suddenly materialized in the streets as they do not own. Scavenge and collect their loot container, like a grotesque scene of Valle Inclán. The scene is repeated every night. They are the new poor of Almería thrown there by the crisis in sight disturbing.

It happens from one end to the city. At the doors of supermarkets and shopping malls on certain days of the week, coinciding with the times when the stores get rid of expired products, at the El Puche, in the area twenty, Fish, along with the headquarters of the Mercy Street in Granada ... under cover of darkness emerge such marginalization and poverty underground hiding comfortable society. They remind me of "Wall-e?, That movie sales ranking of Americans who tells the tenderness of a robot left on earth who is collecting garbage. Can a piece of tin wire wake up full of tenderness for our poor? If you stop and look at them you will see are shadows, challenging, winners of their own humiliation to look wiser and sadder than thought possible. There are each installed in its reality, its desires and fears, burning in the center of their lives, which are unique and very important days for each of them and, at night, only the dim memory of a memory, indistinguishable in the sea drops on your needs, vague traces of famished shadows procession.

Even the best social film by Ken Loach and Jean Pierre's fantasy in his films Jounet could pick up the noise of life of those shadows, because it is impossible to take in images or journey into poverty and the infinite diversity of their existence. On the other side are those of the affluent society, such that their waste packages and waste properly every day. At the end of the day, our poor have no other opportunity to sweep streets, collect garbage or join the strike.

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