Top 3 favorite characters from La Casa de Papel (not spoiler free!)
Look at that expression. Man.
Seriously, from the very first moment, even before I started watching this series, my folks said ‘There’s this guy Berlin - he’s just the type of character you’ll love’
Some people know me too well lol
Berlin is an amazing, amazing character. Because he’s despicable, he’s a nervewreckingly annoying colleague, he’s heartless and unable to feel empathy for about 90% of the world, takes pleasure of manipulating others, exploring their weaknesses and forcing them to face their weaknesses, he genuinely enjoys being how he is most of the time. Also 5 wives? 5 times you believed in love and all that? Perhaps, perhaaaps I wonder, the problem wasn’t five different women, huh Andrés? And you’d add Ariadna to make her the 6th right, soooo that says a lot about your love.
He is a bad human being. He is. He lacks the ability to feel empathy for others and he is the first to admit it (actually no, he isn’t. He enjoys playing the opposite role, of being ultra sensitive). But he understands empathy and so he reads people very well, which would allow him to actually reach people positively if he wanted to. But he doesn’t :)
And this adds a whole huge layer of reasons for me to love Berlin.
The fact that a man as flawed as him can genuinely love his brother so much.
To all those reasons I mentioned above, I’m adding some of the most important ones: he’s an extremely ambivalent and complex person. Berlin is capable of hedious acts while at the same time keeping the highest goal in mind and genuinely caring for his brother.
The scene when he tells the Professor he had one hostage killed- and the following speech to the hostages in the office- is amazing because of how he knows he should feel something for what he has done, he knows because he feels Sergio’s pain, but he is unable to feel anything himself. He is aware of his inability to feel.
I love his relationship with Nairobi.
They’re the most intelligent and professional ones in the group, but they’re opposites in ideals and personality. And yet they know how to work together and respect each other. Even though yes, some of that mutual respect had to be earned through force.
And their final scene is amazing.
You may hate Berlin or you may love him - or rather, love to hate him and hate to love him - but you can’t deny that this guy is fucking memorable and one of the best characters of the whole series.
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