the insecure
poet
by Douglas Messerli
Juan Mirarchi (screenwriter and director)
Impulsos (Impulses) 2025 [6 minutes]
Argentine director Juan Mirarchi’s Impulses
is a very short and ineffective study of personal doubt and insecurity. Despite
the love of his hunky lover (Damián Ramis), the cute young man (Ezequiel Pache)
cannot quelch his fears of inadequacy in an unfortunate narrative overlaying of
deep and dark musical mutterings.
The only way out, so it appears, is to produce via an old Olivetti
typewriter, a poem that relays all of his doubts.
Fortunately, his heavily tatted lover appreciates his obviously amateur attempts
to express his anxiety.
Frankly, I don’t. And I can’t
imagine why anyone might even want to visit this small work even though it
passes like a flash before one can even imagine what it is attempting to delineate.
As one commentator on Letterboxd, Jorge Iván opined, “To me it’s a lack
of understanding of what [the] medium can do.”
I might add, as a poet, it appears to be
a lack of understanding of what any medium can accomplish.
Beyond all that, we never hear a word of
poetry uttered, and the visuals are so predictable that we might find better
gay models any day on our local porn network.
Finally, I might add (obviously just a
random comment which might arouse many different reactions), I prefer the look
of the unsure bottom to his seemingly assured top. I, a poet, fortunately never
was made to choose one role over the other.
Los Angeles, June 29, 2026
Reprinted from My Queer Cinema blog
(June 2026).
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