#265 It Will Be Awesome Before Spring- Antonio Ruiz-Camacho
A group of Mexican youths come of age, they are planning a
trip to Italy in the spring. As rumors spread of dangers retuning to their
city, they enjoy the excitement of more freedom that only comes with age.
“It is the year we meet people that don’t live in the same
neighborhoods as us…It is the year we get to know real artists who rent studios
in dangerous districts on the other side of the city, and it is the year we
socialize with historians and anthropologists and performance artists and book
editors who live paycheck to paycheck and don’t have cars… It is a new
unexplored world within the same city we were born and have always lived, and
every time we venture into it we feel as if we’re crossing an invisible fence,
trespassing into a forbidden side of ourselves; messier, wilder sexier.”
I lose interest in these characters as we learn of their
rich-kid tendencies and life outlook. Maybe it’s my own bias I’m projecting on
it, but they seem to be pretty spoiled and sheltered. I don’t see a massage
buried anywhere in here, perhaps that’s on purpose. Not every story needs a
message, but without one, this story falls a bit hollow.
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