El Telegrafo - "Peter Plan", the documentary about a musician who does not see, but he listens to everything

Pedro Lucena lives in Plan, a small town in Catalonia, in Spain.He lived in Barcelona, had a stable job that worked for someone with a disability like the one he has: Pedro cannot see.He sees very little, less and less.

In Barcelona, he was in charge of a kiosk in which he sold lottery tickets - or how similar it can be found in a kiosk in Barcelona - and then, at 36 he said enough.He decided to be a musician.Because music was his thing.It is his thing.This documentary, written and directed by Jean Castejón Gilabert, proves it.Lucena, better known as Peter Plan - a perfect name, if one exists - is recording and launching his album "Natural catastrophes" and the Castejón Chamber follows, accompanies him, is placed in front of him, shows it, he contemplates it.

Actually, this is a documentary in which the only possible thread is to make songs, record them and show when responsible for those lyrics and melodies.

Castejón knows that he has a great character and only has to put the camera.But well, not just that.

How do those who can't see

A documentary is always a specific perspective in the face of a fact, situation or person, so in the background there will always be an intention.In this case, Jean Castejón Gilabert focuses on an artist like few and not from the compassion before whom he cannot see and makes art.

Here is everything but compassion.There is an impressive respect and brutal admiration before someone who makes rock, in his manner, in his law, with his norms.Someone who is on the periphery, who left the city to go to a town, and who moves his work and career.When there is an impressive subject as the protagonist of the feature film, we must expect the magic to happen.And here it happens several times.

Peter Plan is wonderful for those who see the documentary, because for its director it is too.

He is in his town, walks with his guide dog, touches the drums, gives battery classes, touches the guitar, gives guitar classes.He has presentations, short firewood, his food is prepared;He records his album there - he requested funds to do so with the help of Siri, which helps him write a letter, one of the most hilarious moments of the film - gives indications, produces, listen carefully.

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And while you see it, while interacting, your ideas are heard, which reflects, those possible versions of the world.It may be that the pop rock that Peter Plan does - and that sounds every so often - is not pleasant for everyone.But when he shows what he has inside, the things he thinks, there is something powerful.

So much that Castejón, at a time that can be cataloged as lucidity and obviousness, at the same time, decides to show how it sees or how this special being would see.It is to put ourselves in their shoes, blur everything, let there be shadows, that everything is understood by the context, sound and the shapes that are intuited.Not only is he heard who he doesn't see, it's also about seeing otherwise.

Peter Plan |Trailer Officiel from Quechua Films on Vimeo.

"Peter Plan"

Dir: Jean Castejón Gilabert

Script: Jean Castejón Gilabert

Cast: Pedro Lucena

Quechua Films

Issue: Friday, December 31, 2021, at 9:30 p.m. by the Ecuador TV signal