#bullfighting

#bullfighting

On October 7, Spain's Congress of Deputies refused to consider a Popular Legislative Initiative (ILP in its Spanish acronym) a procedure that lets citizens propose legislation to Congress and which requires at least 500,000 signatures to withdraw national cultural protection from bullfighting. In other words, the lawmakers chose to dismiss the issue without giving it a chance for parliamentary debate, in a vote marked by the conspicuous abstention of the main party in government, the center-left Socialist Party (PSOE).

"Bullfighting doesn't sustain itself, it's sustained by public funds," he stated, asking that these resources be allocated "to creation, not cruelty."

For anyone looking for an ethical statement on bullfighting, this is not that film. Composed primarily of a series of corrida at which Peruvian star matador Andres Roca Rey performs, this is an extremely tough watch for those with any kind of sympathy for animal rights. Director Albert Serra lauded for his 2022 thriller Pacifiction is not especially interested in the lives of the bulls, who all die desultory deaths, depicted with horrible intimacy here.