On this day, film fans can see a classic of world cinema, “The Gold Rush”, by maestro Charlie Chaplin and a landmark of auteur cinema, “Lobster”, by Yorgos Lanthimos. In La 2, Órbita Laika examines the scientific revolutions of the 20th century and then Documentos TV reports on the vile world of misogyny on the Internet. For his part, the special envoy in La Sexta draws a map of the dangers of excessive use of antibiotics.
“The Gold Chimera”
8:40 p.m., TCM
The gold rush. USA, 1925 (95 minutes). Directed by: Charlie Chaplin. Actors: Charlie Chaplin, Georgia Hale.
Chaplin becomes the hungriest gold digger in the history of cinema. So he prepares with great pleasure to eat one of your boots, turning the laces into spaghetti and the sole into a generous steak. The maestro lives through the dark years of the gold rush and delivers a relentless social satire in which he includes some of the most tender moments of his cinema, such as the dance with buns stuck in forks, the highlight of his talent for mimicry.
Scientific revolutions of the 20th century
10 p.m., La 2
The Laika Orbit space shows how the 20th century saw more scientific and technological advances than in all of human history. The program will explain what “spacetime” is, why it curves and how black holes work, it will look at Einstein’s theory of relativity, it will remember the process that allowed us to decipher the double helix structure of DNA, and It will go back to Miller’s experiment, with which he sought to answer the origin of life.
‘Lobster’
10 p.m., Movistar Indie
The lobster. Greece-United Kingdom, 2015 (115 minutes). Director: Yorgos Lanthimos. Cast: Colin Farrell, Rachel Weisz, Jessica Barden.
In another world that is almost in this world, singleness is forbidden and citizens are put in a hotel using prison methods and forced to find a partner. Yorgos Lanthimos, author of Canino and The Sacrifice of a Sacred Deer, once again questions the corners of society and creates in his stories a suprareality in which the principles of real life rule in a deformed way. Set in a universe designed to create robot slaves, Lobster delivers a critical speech in favor of freedom. Furthermore, in the second part of the footage, the revolutionaries fighting against the established order accept regulations that are even more cruel and inflexible than their oppressors.
Dangers of excessive use of antibiotics
10:30 p.m., sixth
In this episode, the Special Envoy’s Room, prepared by Jalis de la Serna, examines the excessive and incorrect use of antibiotics in humans, livestock and agriculture. A problem that has led to the emergence of more and more bacteria resistant to these microorganisms, which are already the third cause of death worldwide. The program travels to India, one of the countries where these drugs are most commonly abused, causing many common infections to become life-threatening again.
“TV docs” and digital misogyny
23.55, La 2
The documentary Misogyny in the Digital Age uses various women to show the hate that plagues them online and the fear they live with. At the same time, it becomes clear how many of them are no longer willing to remain silent about these crimes, even without a legal solution. When #MeToo broke out in 2017, an unprecedented wave of sexual assault allegations came to light in the Western world. At that time, networks were flooded with the most vicious misogyny of all time and surfing the Internet became a risky activity for women.
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