Kids and the city

The kids and the city. “Our kids” know the city, and they are starting to use it. By all means, they gave a detailed description of it and enlightened us about the differences between certain parts of the town. They seemed to know the town quite well (it is quickly discoverable indeed), so their parents supposedly consider its different parts safe as they let their children get about alone, and with us. Coming from a big city Mataró seamed rather safe. The kids moved comfortably in the town, they acted as confident hosts, who “rule” the place, some of them showed us also their homes.

At the first conversation, we marked the places that children labelled as “good” and “bad” places as the possible scenes of the shots. The bad ones were the Cerdanyola and Rocafonda districts, the good ones were the centre, the main park the beach and the shopping centre (the last was not used in the film.) In the Rocafonda immigrants, prostitutes, drug addicts, and thieves live, therefore it is bad – told us the kids, who do not live in Rocafonda.