“Life is a race full of obstacles. Whether the sun is out or it’s raining. Every time I go for a run I face my thoughts. The air hits me in the face and, without being able to help it, I run agitated by them. I think of destiny, I think of the people I love. Because on this path of life we are never alone. This is how it was presented Benjamin Vicuna to his character Santiago Lunaprotagonist of the first of us. The strip that was broadcast simultaneously by Telefe and Paramount + came to an end on television and the latest images connect with that beginning. With what is written and what paths we choose to face it, we can face it. And the importance, in each of the cases, of leaning on the affections.
Because a few hours later, Santiago he met his lifelong friends: Jimena Rauch (Paola Krum), Nicholas Torres (Luciano Castro), Valeria Perell (Jorgelina Aruzzi), Soledad Gonzalez (mercedes funes) e Ignatius Kingdom (Damian De Santo). In the midst of the anecdotes and the laughter, he suffers from a decompensation and falls unconscious to the ground. “They are terminal tumors.sentences the medical magisterial interpreted by Carola Reyna. “Am I going to die?” asks the protagonist almost reflexively. A question that was left floating in the air and that was confirmed in the last chapter.
In that dream of a marathon runner, willing to take everything ahead and when death was a long-term appointment, Vicuña slipped the words that articulated the story. “And if I were the first of us, I ask you not to abandon me until I reach the finish line”. And the last chapter found everyone at the checkered flag, with the plot lines closing their course and a Santiago Luna increasingly deteriorated approaching the inevitable.
at the wedding of Nicholas y Valeria, during a not so impromptu conclave, his five friends bring him up to date. “This is all your fault,” Valeria tells him, attributing the happiness of her partner to him. And so the round continues, with Soledad finally fulfilled and with Nacho in love and with plans to be a father. “I see you were talking. I stay calm, I can die in peace”, he concludes Santiago. “With that black humor, with that attitude you have, you infected us all and forced us to move forward.“, bring back Nicholas, inveterate ex-bachelor turned newlywed. And the six hands together seal that moment forever.
A few days pass and Santiago he seeks relaxation in a book and a pitcher of lemonade that he prepares with clockwork precision, as if knowing what is about to happen. In it, she feels the pain so feared. Her glasses fall off, her hand trembles looking for where to lean, the air doesn’t appear. Meanwhile, she spends her life and heThe film stops at the photo of his wife and children. Just there, the crying turns into a faint smile.
When it reaches Jimena with their baby Julian, intends to start a daily chat but his face warns that the outcome is inevitable. “Love”, she calls him over and over again. But she knows it’s useless. What follows is that dreaded call and the reaction of the friends, each in their own way. The pain of burial and the celebration of life, in the flashforward to the first year of the birthday of Julian. His task was accomplished, reflected in laughter and toasts and crowned by the last of his parental advice. “I always appreciated that life is beautiful, unique and beautiful”.
“Open television can still do much more for the debate, the conversation of topics that are still considered taboo, help a society to mirror itself and feel identified. And I think that without a doubt it was a contribution, I see it in the returns of the people, in the street and in the networks”, the Chilean had told in a dialogue with teleshow in the previous And at the end of the last chapter, in that whirlwind of mixed feelings and discomforts to which the plot exposes, his mission was also accomplished.
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