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I’m Not Afraid on Netflix: a Boy in 1986 Veracruz Finds the Child His Own Village Buried

The six-episode Spanish-language series traces how poverty and social inequity drive a kidnapping and the loss of childhood innocence.

The light comes first. Wheat the color of old coins, a sky bleached flat by the Veracruz heat, a bicycle dropped in the dirt where a boy let it fall to climb down into a hole he was never meant to find. I’m Not Afraid, the new Netflix limited series, builds its whole argument out of that single contrast — the prettiest summer a Mexican child could ask for, and the thing rotting at the bottom of it. Director Ernesto Contreras films the countrysid…

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In I am not afraid (No tengo miedo / I的m Not Afrid), the new Mexican mini-series of Netflix, the young Miguel discovers Felipe, a child of his age locked at the bottom of a hole near his village of Veracruz in 1986. Ultra-realistic atmosphere, poor village lost in the midst of plantations, fleeing adults... enough for the question to come back everywhere: is the series drawn from a real fact various? The answer to "I am not afraid true story" is…

Photo: courtesy Netflix Netflix continues to bet on Mexican productions with the premiere of No Fear, a miniseries of crime and suspense that promises to become one of the most commented proposals of the year. The production, directed by Ernesto Contreras, conveys to Mexico a story that has already conquered readers from all over the world thanks to the novel Io non ho paura by the Italian writer Niccolò Ammaniti. With a plot that mixes mystery,…

Netflix premiered the Mexican miniseries I am not afraid, a proposal that shares certain aspects with Mexico '86, another production of the platform that is also located at the time of the World Cup in that country, although from a different point of view.What it is about I am not afraid "During the summer of 1986, Miguel, of 10 [...] See more news in Indie Hoy.

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