The Romanoffs (TV Series)

Panorama (2018)

Juan Pablo Castañeda: Abel

Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  Abel : [narrating]  Where is the one with the face I can't live without? Let me choose the picture and see her as she is. Let me pick the angle to catch her unaware. Do you ever look at yourself? Do you know how beautiful you are? Or are you more beautiful because you can't look? Why can't I see the way you brush your hair? Where is a picture of you walking up the stairs? Reading a magazine? I don't want to tell you what to do. I want you to just do something. On your own. I want to see you like the stranger that I am, and then feel it in my chest, then my stomach, then everywhere else, when you finally look at me like you know me.

• Abel : [narrating]  We like to think of what was here versus what came later. But in the end, it doesn't matter. Two peoples, one civilized, one savage. One white, one brown. None of this is true. Both fierce, both violent. Neither civilized. In the end, the indigenous people were defenseless. They fell like a forest and were ground into pulp to make the paper of Spanish Bibles.

  Abel : [entering a clinic]  And here they are, a new crop of trees unable to afford their own fruit. So once again, the conquistadors gallop in and seize the harvest. Life is cheap here. They would replace all their body parts with ours if they could. The ones who have everything, taking from those who have nothing, just to get a little bit more.