An armed robbery on the bus line that connects the Barcelona airport with Manresa. Three robbers end up dead and the killer flees. The six witnesses on the bus are unable to identify the fugitive and the police suspect a pact of silence to protect him. Are they witnesses or accomplices of a crime? The news soon reached the press and the case went viral: public opinion was positioned against the police and in favor of the “justiciero” who had faced the robbers.
It is the starting point of You would do it too, the new Disney series that proposes an unconscious game for the viewer: as they are given new information, they will change their point of view about what really happened on the bus. This is how David Victori and Jordi Vallejo explain it, creators and directors of this fiction of eight half-hour episodes that includes familiar faces such as Ana Polvorosa, Michelle Jenner, Paco Tous, Pablo Molinero, Ana Wagener and Elena Irureta in its cast.
The series, as its title suggests, always carries this dilemma of what the viewer would do in each situation that arises. “Through the turns of the characters and the new information that is given, the viewer changes his opinion from one episode to another and it is increasingly difficult for him to decideâ€, Vallejo points out. “There comes a time when viewers understand all the characters just when they are all facing each other,†he sums up.
“We feel that fiction and society in general tend to simplify reality and what fascinates us is the possibility of putting ourselves in the shoes of many different characters so that the viewer knows the reality of each oneâ€, says Victori. And he adds: “This project wants to be a very adrenaline and dynamic entertainment, with a popular and addictive formula, and at the same time generate a story where we move among the greys.”
“Faced with any situation, people normally take a position almost immediately,” continues Vallejo, who thinks that we should take some time to analyze what is happening around us. “How many details do you have about a story, your moral position can be more and more complex and that is what we propose in You would do it tooâ€, Victori complements.
Another topic that the series addresses is how people only get information through social networks and how some topics go viral. “This is a fundamental issue that we see in our day to day,†says Vallejo. “Here we have police, journalists and later the masses through the networks. It is a triangle where they are all linked and everyone pushes and reacts. When a journalist publishes information, the police react in a certain way, regardless of whether the information is true or not, thinking about the direction that the case can take while the masses quickly give their opinion through the headlines â€, he continues. . “Everyone tries to find their place in this chaos that can very rarely be genuine because it responds to a game of forces.”
Would you also want to play with the viewer more than tell a story? “It’s a balance,” Vallejo responds, while Victori points out that he, as a director, is very aware of the dialogue with the viewer. “When at a certain moment in a film it is shown to me with a turn that the director knows I am thinking or feeling, it seems to me to have a sensitivity and a connection to the story that overwhelms me as a spectator,” he confesses.
