Now it has two meanings. Jakarta, capital of Indonesia, badminton mecca. AND Jakartaseries created by Diego San José, starring Javier Cámara and Carla Quílez. Since its trailer was released, we knew that Jakartathe series, would have nothing to do with Jakarta, the city, or badminton, even if he used that as an alibi. Starting next Thursday, the date of its debut on Movistar+, viewers who sit in front of the Jakarta They will be able to unravel what they will actually see in it. So, out of respect for you and the series, I won’t ruin the trip for you. I will only talk about the starting point.
Joserra is a former professional player who survives as a badminton coach, although he makes a living as a physical education teacher. And in that gray of third-class sports centers, which smell of reflections and abandonment, Joserra meets Mar (Quílez), his white blackbird. From there Jakarta It’s a story of vapid, broken people who turn the goal of victory into their lifeline. The question is whether they cling to it because they truly believe that it will provide them with the relief they need or whether, deep down, they do so because, as a utopia, it allows them to persevere on an infinite horizon. There can be both.
On the —green— path of portraying two characters who aspire to victory at all costs, Jakarta It ends up becoming a detailed map of failure. How many times the real challenge is not winning, but knowing how to lose. But of course, that’s easy to say if you’ve already won. ‘Cause if you just lost, that Se Kipling’s statement that success and failure are impostors must sound like a consolation prize to you.
Perhaps we are facing Javier Câmara’s best performance since talk to herwhich says a lot with your career in hand. And also before the consolidation of the fabulous team Diego San José and Elena Trapé, main director of the series. I look at the surroundings of Jakartaand I wonder how such talented and professionally successful people have managed to portray defeat so accurately, and I don’t know if it is an extraordinary exercise in intrusion or the definitive demonstration that they are not impostors: at best, success and failure coexist.