I watched this in the original Spanish with captions.
I was interested to see what happens. As someone else pointed out, there's little tension because at the very beginning of the film we see that the protagonist, Angel, doesn't really have a moral center. He steals from the dead and the injured he mistreats his girlfriend and he abuses her.
She leaves, when she discovers that he has downloaded an app on her phone to spy on her. They live in a dark cramped little apartment and there doesn't seem to be very much joy in there. They're trying to have a baby and he goes to the doctor and he finds out that he really doesn't have the sperm count but he doesn't tell her.
Subsequently while riding in the back of an ambulance it is t-boned by large vehicle and he's left a paralegic.
He's nasty, he's manipulative, and he continues to manipulate and abuse his girlfriend . He's also spying on her with a app on his phone. He listens in on her phone and he discovers her talking to a friend of hers saying she's unhappy and she wants to leave them and her girlfriend is encouraging her to do so.
he then decides to make nice and makes all sorts of promises to her about changing his ways, and you really don't know if he was ever going to really do it. Because the same night she finds out about the app on the phone and she immediately leaves him while he's in the shower.
Later he sees her in the street with the ambulance driver and it's obvious they have a relationship and they are working on having a family together.
He uses a ruse to get her up to the apartment. She stupidly goes up there without telling anybody that she's going. He drugs her, ties her to the bed basically kidnaps her.
Also, as others pointed out people keep threatening to call the police (an old neighbor that hears her screaming, the distraught boyfriend that's looking for her), but they never do. The old man neighbor, instead goes in the apartment when Angel tells him to come in to see that no one's in there. Angel promptly kills him, then calls up a guy he sells the stuff that he steals from injuries people who just comes in and takes away the body.
Sorry, but this guy is a nobody why would anyone cover up a murder for him, for a few dollars? Anyway it's at this point when you realize the movie isn't going to get better. You also realize that you don't care about any of the characters because there was really no character development.
This was a movie that was a little bit different, that could have been better, but wasn't. Interestingly enough they incorporate a little bit of Covid into the movie. Although they don't name it. How timely is that?
I was interested to see what happens. As someone else pointed out, there's little tension because at the very beginning of the film we see that the protagonist, Angel, doesn't really have a moral center. He steals from the dead and the injured he mistreats his girlfriend and he abuses her.
She leaves, when she discovers that he has downloaded an app on her phone to spy on her. They live in a dark cramped little apartment and there doesn't seem to be very much joy in there. They're trying to have a baby and he goes to the doctor and he finds out that he really doesn't have the sperm count but he doesn't tell her.
Subsequently while riding in the back of an ambulance it is t-boned by large vehicle and he's left a paralegic.
He's nasty, he's manipulative, and he continues to manipulate and abuse his girlfriend . He's also spying on her with a app on his phone. He listens in on her phone and he discovers her talking to a friend of hers saying she's unhappy and she wants to leave them and her girlfriend is encouraging her to do so.
he then decides to make nice and makes all sorts of promises to her about changing his ways, and you really don't know if he was ever going to really do it. Because the same night she finds out about the app on the phone and she immediately leaves him while he's in the shower.
Later he sees her in the street with the ambulance driver and it's obvious they have a relationship and they are working on having a family together.
He uses a ruse to get her up to the apartment. She stupidly goes up there without telling anybody that she's going. He drugs her, ties her to the bed basically kidnaps her.
Also, as others pointed out people keep threatening to call the police (an old neighbor that hears her screaming, the distraught boyfriend that's looking for her), but they never do. The old man neighbor, instead goes in the apartment when Angel tells him to come in to see that no one's in there. Angel promptly kills him, then calls up a guy he sells the stuff that he steals from injuries people who just comes in and takes away the body.
Sorry, but this guy is a nobody why would anyone cover up a murder for him, for a few dollars? Anyway it's at this point when you realize the movie isn't going to get better. You also realize that you don't care about any of the characters because there was really no character development.
This was a movie that was a little bit different, that could have been better, but wasn't. Interestingly enough they incorporate a little bit of Covid into the movie. Although they don't name it. How timely is that?