Daniel Guebel. "Espléndida Decadencia"

DOCUMENTARY. Spanish. Original Title: Espléndida Decadencia. Sinopsis: "Espléndida Decadencia" es una de las miradas posibles sobre este ... todos » pensador y escritor porteño que desde siempre ha vivido al margen del aparato cultural e institucional de su país. Un país que, por otra parte, no sobrepasa los límites del barrio, unas pocas calles cuyos nombres Guebel no puede evocar sin confundirlos con otros. Por momentos el protagonista queda en suspenso. Guebel parece resuelto a perderse en sus argumentos hasta que algo lo salva y consigue rescatarse a si mismo en un acto de heroísmo individual, de cruda y sincera reflexión: No creo que los que hayan muerto en tiempos de la dictadura hayan sido los mejores.




"Devine Decadence" is one of the many possible glimpses of Daniel Guebel, emblematic of a Buenos Aires generation who has always dwelled in the margins, oblivious to Argentinean institutional culture. According to Guebel, his country does not exceed the limits of its neighborhood, a collection of streets whose names challenge Guebel’s memory. His thoughts get muddled. At times the protagonist even gets lost amid his own arguments until out of the blue crude and sincere reflections come to his rescue in unprecedented acts of individual heroism: “I do not believe that those who died in the days of the dictatorship were the best of us as it’s usually understood.”