Two films of different ilk cater to moviegoers that day: “Night of the Living Dead,” a founding work of the zombie genre, and “The Social Network,” David Fincher’s dive into the birth of Facebook. On La 1, Weekly Report looks at smartphone use among young people, La 2 broadcasts a new episode of Thematic Night, which this week focuses on environmental protection. For its part, DMAX is showing the beginning of the sixth season of the documentary series 091: Police Alert.
091 returns: police alarm
9 p.m., DMAX
The series, which follows various units of the Spanish National Police in their daily work, returns to DMAX for its sixth season. This first part shows unpublished images from “Operation Elba”, an anti-drug operation in which 4,500 kilos of cocaine were seized from a cattle ship off the coast of Gran Canaria. This is a historic operation as it was the first to be carried out on a livestock ship, making registration very complicated, and one of the largest ever carried out in Spain.
Smartphones and teenagers
9:30 p.m., 1
This week Informe Semanal broadcasts the report Youth without coverage, which looks at the frequency of smartphone use among young people and shows the initiative of a group of parents from Poblenou in Barcelona to limit their use. Next, Forced Russians takes up the EBU Journalism Network’s investigation into the Kremlin’s strategy to Russify the annexed territories of Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia.
‘The social network’
8:50 p.m., COSMO
The social network. USA, 2010 (130 minutes). Director: David Fincher. Cast: Jesse Eisenberg, Joseph Mazzello, Andrew Garfield.
At the time, it was surprising that David Fincher would focus on a film about the creation of Facebook. But Fincher, accustomed to traveling against the grain, has crafted a memorable work, aided by a screenplay by Aaron Sorkin full of machine gun-like dialogue. At his side, a model gives the story an overwhelming density. The social network also transcends the burden of a main character who flaunts arrogance and careerism and denies any emotional connection with the viewer.
“Night of the Living Dead”
24.00, DARK
Night of the Living Dead. USA, 1968 (95 minutes). Directed by: George A. Romero. Cast: Judith O’Dea, Duane Jones, Marilyn Eastman.
Since 1968, all series or films about the zombie universe have been based on the images from Night of the Living Dead. And 50 years later, very few have managed to match its disturbing power and allegorical power. It is a basic film based on simplicity: it avoids visual excesses, limits itself to just three locations and uses just over five characters. But in his hallucinatory images, the horror of a zombie apocalypse lives on explosively. Furthermore, he succeeds in drawing a devastating parable about the fragility of the social order and the meaninglessness of human existence.
Environmental protection in “The Theme Evening”
0.25, The 2
Two reports serve the Thematic Night to address concerns about the environment. The Queen of the Sun shows how chemical engineer and inventor Mária Telkes used her prodigious intellect to convert the sun’s power into energy for nearly 50 years. Next, Documérica approaches a project led by Nixon in the 1970s that aimed to present the environmental situation in the United States, taking advantage of growing environmental sensitivity.
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