Image from the program “Blind Trust”.
The Antena 3 program Blind Trust was to dating shows what the Australopithecus was to hominids: everything seems so simple, so innocent, so ancient when you think of them… Blind Trust had no second edition or need for it; It had a respectable share, but it wasn’t a hoopla either – like El Chapulín Colorado or El duende del globo – without prestige or eulogies in the press, they stayed in the memory and achieved complicity among viewers that unite one of Pacma with could a bullfight.
Two years ago, Amazon Prime brought the program back and it didn’t make much noise, but this week actress and journalist Sonia Mangas brought back some moments from the program to mark its twenty-first anniversary and since we did ‘don’t attach importance to last year, true not to it. More commends it to those who missed it in their day.” For example, is Blind Trust better than any Basilio Martín Patino film? Well obviously not. It was just the germ of The Island of Temptations, back when nobody had an Instagram filter face. That’s why it’s interesting: Because it was a – finally we can use the word correctly – prototype of what we later took for granted: daily deception, flag drama, instrumentalization of the other. In Blind Trust, viewers can relive the days of horrid fashions and polytonic sounds. One becomes aware of the fragility of a generation plagued by the hangover of clubbing aesthetics, without aesthetic interventions paid for in installments and without the “healthy cycles” of the gym creatures that populate Mediaset. One learns more about this first quarter of a century from a professional than from so many works that wanted to be a reflection of a century just beginning.
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