The video is around 8 minutes long, it's from a movie called 'La Cabina'. I recommend putting it on x2 speed and watching it. This is what motivated me to write this story and well... it's about minding your own business or dying for being curious - remember the quote 'curiosity killed the cat'? To those who don't understand the video, it's businessmen who are targetted. These are your typical late 30's men, dressed in suits and unlike everyone else are only inquisitive, they actually go ahead and fulfil their curiosity. It was a political dig at Franco's government - you can't be allowed to leave the booth (Spain). If you want to go out the booth (Spain), we shut you up. If you fight it, you end up killing yourself. Also, those who like analysing stuff, here are two amazing comments that I found on Youtube that have really understood the video well.
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The most common tale was that victims were taken on a paseo, a stroll. Both during the civil war and as Franco consolidated power in the 1940s, armed men rounded up small groups of suspected opponents and took them into the woods. They were never seen again. Many of the men in charge of these executions, soldiers and Franco's fascist party members, became police officials or local political leaders. Victims' family members lived for decades under the authority of their loved ones' murderers.
The Pact of Forgetting (: el pacto del olvido) is the Spanish political decision (by both the leftist and rightist parties) to avoid dealing with the legacy of after the 1975 death of General , who had remained in power since the in 1936–1939. The Pact of Forgetting was an attempt to put the past behind them and concentrate on the future of Spain. In making a smooth transition from a dictatorship to a democracy, the pact ensured that there were no prosecutions for persons responsible for mass suffering. On the other hand, Francoist public memorials, such as the mausoleum of the mausoleum of the Valley of the fallen, fell into disuse for official occasions. Also, the celebration of "Day of Victory" during the Franco era was changed to "Armed Forces Day" so respect was paid to both Nationalist and Republican parties of the Civil War.
Federico García Lorca was a Spanish poet, playwright, and theatre director. The resulting documents suggest García Lorca was persecuted for his beliefs, describing him as a "socialist and a Freemason," about whom rumours swirled of "homosexual and abnormal practices". After police carried out two searches on his home in Granada, he fled to a friend's house out of fear. He was executed by a firing squad.
