Quisiera ser grande y la filosofía del deseo

In this video, I analyze Big (1988) from a psychological and philosophical perspective, but told as a story: a boy who, in the throes of puberty, discovers that being "small" isn't just a matter of height... it's a form of exclusion. At the fair, he's rejected, the girl he likes seems unattainable, the adults walk with a freedom denied to him, and then the most dangerous desire is born: "I wish I were big." From there, the film becomes a lesson about what almost no one says out loud: often we don't know what we want, and the mistake isn't wanting... the mistake is getting exactly what we ask for. Josh wakes up with an adult body but the mind of a child, and that throws him into a world where adulthood is sustained by social contracts, strange rituals, and masks of seriousness: jobs, meetings, "status," parties, protocols... things that, seen with innocent eyes, seem like an elegant joke. I also talk about what truly distinguishes a child from an adult: emotional regulation, identity, internal rules, and how even among adults there are vast differences due to trauma, deprivation, and incomplete development. And, amidst all of this, romance emerges: a relationship that works because Josh doesn't seduce, he rebels, but which also reveals the unsettling nature of growing up on the outside without having grown up on the inside.