10 He fell silent. Behind his black-rimmed glasses, Mexican filmmaker Guillermo del Toro let tears fall with a restrained gesture. “It hurts me deeply to see that one, two, or three generations have completely failed this generation. That is to say, we are leaving the incoming generation a world in ruins, with its moral, social, and spiritual fabric disintegrated,” in a statement that rose as a generational apology, as a plea for forgiveness for not having known how, been able to, or wanted to act as a transmission belt, as a generation, for the values that have sustained Western civilizations for the last three-quarters of a century.

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