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Solos (2008)
Being the first is not an excuse for sucking at movie making
Nothing... absolutely NOTHING excuses the big plot holes this story has. I had the opportunity to watch this movie on the first public exhibition made in Chile, and although the previous movies of director Olguin weren't good, i had faith in him becoming mature enough to make a convincing and sustainable movie, but i was both disappointed and sad to find myself laughing instead of being scared, and to watch more than the half of the public leaving the place before the half of the film. Believe me. People just stood up from their sits and left the hell out of there in anger. The film has a certain touch of social criticism, but it is so week and so covered up on awful special effects, digital visual filters and ineffective horror sequences that the importance of the messages becomes obsolete.
Lots of questions stay unexplained, and the fact that the child-protagonists aren't attacked by the zombies (because they are immune to them), there isn't actually any tension in the movie. The central musical theme repeats itself along the movie, as also does and scene which is repeated at least five times with no apparent sense. Boring and ridiculous as hell. But you don't know ridiculous until you watch the ending.
B-Happy (2003)
When SIMPLYNESS goes wrong
Have you noticed how do simple movies had have a huge impact on the audience this last time? Just Think about ELEPHANT, for example. Plain story, wonderfully worked, acted, directed and filmed: nothing else needed. When a movie is well crafted, and the emotional intentions are correctly delivered to the audience, the most plain, stick man-acted, midi-sound-tracked story can receive a 20 minutes stand up ovation on Cannes. This is a fact, ans it is one of the most actually used formats on contemporary films. But, B-Happy isn't just plain, like a valley covered on green moisturized grass, is a mud filled down sloped crater. It is a awfully bad directed story, as told by a 15 year old kid who grades an F on grammar. The image is not clean: between scenes, you can tell when it's gonna be changed by noticing a slight brightening on the picture, which is really disturbing for the viewer's eye. Manuela Martelli proves once again, that her fame as a good actress is, in fact, mysterious: she just accomplishes with saying the lines and walking through the set. This film doesn't reach for the viewer's heart, it has no genuine feeling, and stimulates the unfortunate sensation that Chilean Film Industry goes nowhere. For real Feelings on a Chilean movie, Try Silvio Caiozzi, Boris Quercia, Gregory Cohen, just to name some.