Injustice and the demands of the world can cause stress for many people. Some of them, however, explode. This includes a waitress serving a grouchy loan shark, an altercation between two motorists, an ill-fated wedding reception, and a wealthy businessman who tries to buy his family out of trouble.
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Six short vignettes on the theme of human despair and revenge, it's utterly brilliant! The road rage scene reminiscent of Duel, the unhinged midnight diner cook, a pilot with epic logistical preparation. Each and every character is superb. Is all Argentinian cinema like this?? Every story is a belter, brilliantly performed, wonderfully written, incredible from the very beginning until the absolute end.
If you relish at the act of forming pretentious psychoanalytic symbology of simplistic random, occasionally cartoonish collections of "edgy" stories whose leading characters all meet some form of gratuitously violent and disturbing demise, this is the film for you. While there is something that tries to pass as dark/black humour in there at all the usual cues, it just wasn't funny. Personally, I found it all quite predictable, boring and a little sad. The sadness came about as a result of the total pointlessness of the film. However, based on all the exaggerated glowing reviews, I think that sort of cynical, snobby, postmodern, existential, angsty "edginess" is exactly the sort of thing that this film was aiming for.
So real and so fun at the same time. One of the most wonderful movie productions made in argentina.
(Flash Review)So yah, life can be stressful as well as irritating at times. That doesn't mean you can lose common sense. This film is a series of unrelated vignettes related only in tone and atmosphere. The tone can easily be described as dark as in each vignette the characters make the worst possible decisions. For example, getting your car towed when making idiotic choices, can eventually derail your life. What other life scenarios will play out? Will you be able to imagine how far things will go? Often hard to watch at times from a cringe factor perspective, it will no doubt evoke the viewer's emotion. This had high production quality and good acting. Will you be able to hang in there?