A friend recently criticized me for including so many religious references in my writing. “Well, when The Messiah comes out, you’ll find out,” I replied. To talk about faith, there is nothing better than relying on the Word of God: “There is no way to prove that God does not exist.” You just have to accept it by faith,” Woody Allen.
The Javis’ relationship with everything that surrounds faith, spirituality and religion (do not mix or shake) has been evident since the beginning of their career, one of the elements that have made them different and bold. The call was a song of free love that contained the love of God, who, through Dolly Parton, causes one of his two protagonists to fall in love. Even his “We do and we see” is an act of faith in a certain providence.
The Messiah is the B-side. An extraordinary series about the perverse use of faith that Montserrat (Ana Rujas/Lola Dueñas/Carmen Machi, Holy Trinity) exercises in a frightening way over her creatures. Because when God squeezes, especially when he does it with your mother’s hands, he suffocates well. But it is also a series that shows that faith and searching save.
“I talk so much about spirituality and faith because I have none and the fact that I have nothing to hold on to scares me,” Calvo said in a recent interview. Ambrossi wrote on his Instagram that after Messiah “I thought about how necessary it is to have a purpose.” And I thanked all the people who made the series possible “and the revelation that I belong to the world of storytelling. Many people believe that the Word became flesh and lived among us. Others of us believe in the power of turning flesh into a verb. It is also a religious experience.
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