Series – there collective luck

Eternauta is a legend in Argentina. This figure, which comes from a comic, is a cipher for the “collective hero”, with which school classes even deal there. Now the company Netflix, which is eagerly adapted to the Latin America, who is eagerly important (including “100 years of loneliness” and “Pedro Parámo”) to a film adaptation of the famous graphic novel, which was first released between 1957 and 1959 and tells of an alien invasion in Buenos Aires, a dark Buenos Aires that in a toxic Snowstorm sinks. Four friends who sit together in the card game are surprised by this snowfall in summer, flashes across the sky, strange noises can be heard, and suddenly there are corpses on the streets everywhere.

How do I find allies when the world seems to go under?

The graphic novel by Hector German Oesterheld (text) and Francisco Solano López (graphic), published in Germany for the first time in 2016, is now considered a prophetic allegory on the military dictatorship of the 1970s. This also has to do with the fact that the author Hector German Oesterheld became one of the most famous “disappeared” of this military dictatorship. His four daughters, who, like the father, went underground in 1977 and fought against the fascist Junta as Montoneros, were probably kidnapped, tortured and murdered. Oesterheld’s wife became one of the front figures of the Madres de Plaza de Mayo, who fought in Argentina for years to clarify the dictatorship crimes.

The Eternauta is an aging man who is armed with gas mask and rifle through the apocalyptic Buenos Aires and tries to find out what is actually going on. The alien invasion begins with murderous poisoning of the environment, then peculiar monsters appear, and finally numerous residents are turned into compliant servants of the invaders. The invasion is a complex system of oppressive dependencies, an enemy rule of rule does not apply to the Eternauta either. This is implemented in the series as an atmospheric narrative that is not like the original in the mid -1960s, but in the here and now, including the social protests that are common in Argentina on pots that shape the streets.

But soon the metropolis of Buenos Aires sinks into a deep, toxic snow flurry and infinite many corpses line the streets. What happens in view of such a catastrophe? How do people react? The initial “everyone against everyone” soon gives way to organize. The interpersonal dramas are the real topic: How do I find allies when the world seems to go under?

In the foreword to the comic, Oesterheld in 1976 put the aspect of the common struggle against an impending danger: “The true hero is a collective hero, a group of people.” How they then defend themselves against the aliens and finally travels the Eternauta into space and time, this series tells, which implements the difficult to grasp magic of graphic novel in television pictures. “Eternauta” should often be filmed, with the heirs of Oesterheld always kept against a Hollywood version. They wanted to see the fabric filmed as an authentic Argentine story, which now offers the Netflix version.

“Eternauta” has been available in six parts on Netflix since April 30th.