Los Angeles roots
"Para toda la familia". And the family is there, waiting to get in. Downtown L.A. can be strange for a European visitor. Everything is in Spanish. This is supposed to be the center of this very spread out place, and nothing seems to be happening. In fact, it looks like nothing is happening anywhere for miles. Everything happens "inside" and if you want coffee in another place than the restaurant you have been eating, it may take an hour to get to the place you want. The distorsion might come once again from the movies. Since you think you know where you are after memorizing so many scenes of famous films, the city is like compressed in your mind. But unlike movie scripts, there is no editing and time is real, so the adjustment between memory and reality can be disturbing. I do not recall anything happening in a film in this picture. But I might be wrong…