When you finish viewing Cell 211 and appears Directed by Daniel Monzon, the first thing that goes through your head is not as the film, or the monstrous creation of Luis Tosar, not even that nice feeling of having invested in an excellent 5 euros and 2 hours of your life. The first thing that crosses our mind is what is missing in Spain to make more movies like this, gender, daring, brave, capable of confront any foreign film and win. A lack of talent? Screenwriters "unable? "Producers who choose not to take risks and live on government subsidies to cover budget instead of creating an attractive product to the public? Server, unfortunately, is not the answer, but prefers the latter. But I focus on the film and I miss cheeky. Cell 211 might consider as the catharsis of this new wave of directors coming out of the audiovisual, heirs to the tradition of Amenábar, to make a genre film can move the American conception of the show for a more patriotic (lack of money c'mon). More ( Night of the Sunflowers ) or less luck ( Backwoods , King of the Mountain , 3 days , Alatriste), in recent years have tried to do something different, and was someone who tried to approach the patriotic mainstream cinema for years with irregular but curious Heart of the Warrior, and then with Kovak Box tried to approach a mixture of film and the fateful Hitchcockian demiurge who controls the languiano protagonist's fate (Lang), but without much luck. Aware of his limitations as a director, a good craftsman but too inconsistent to consider him a great director, Monsoon created here, usually in collaboration with writer Alex de la Iglesia, a tight script in its main aspects, which languishes only in minor details, small traps and springs that do not weigh down the bottom of the film , in addition to a distribution is highly irregular, if not bad, but if they had been polishing could have done Cell 211 one of the best masterpieces worldwide cinema has seen in years. And, without abandoning the code of prison movies, being a movie that contains all the keys (good) of the genre, this film knows how to be challenging given and no patch of tributes, with his own universe, both argument as purely visual level, where the work of Monzón, except at times, is brilliant, and where the literary and technical combination results in a thriller that borders overwhelming between the psychological and pure suspense and hard without ever leaving what appears to be the main idea of \u200b\u200bthe film: public charge against the estate and the double standards of the welfare society.
The foreground of the film and shows us where we are going to hell inside. The owner of the cell that gives its name to the tape and cut the veins, without preventing violence in the foreground, shows Monsoon the slow suicide of a man who could no longer tolerate even slower death which was being placed in that earthly hell that is prison in Zamora. Start playing your cards and bring the viewer into a mental pulse that takes you to get into the game of cat and mouse that carries the film constantly in a tightrope walking exercise reminiscent of Kafka, however, also interesting to District 9 , we chronicled the loss of identity of an ordinary man. And if we referred to the destination before playing the protagonist in Kovak Box, we must turn to the influence of Fritz Lang in this film. What forces the protagonist, an irregular Alberto Ammann, going a day before starting work, rather than stay with his pregnant wife at home? What compels him to go to, life chances, hitting by pure chance by a stone falling from the ceiling and put in the slums end 211, an almost cursed, instead of being taken to the infirmary? Appearance. The script raises throughout the film, the transformation of character through her appearance, a resource that might be obvious but is used excellently. When his wife asks why he has to go a day earlier, he replies that he wants to make a good impression, perhaps the good cop, honest and unafraid. She replied "Do not take anything," referring to behave as it is with them when they are naked in bed after making love, where he openly shows as it is, he confesses all her fears, and who do not understand she is with him, a mere functionary, choosing the man you want. The importance of appearance re-establish when the riot broke out, and removed everything that he joins the civilized world (mobile, engagement ring, etc ...) after it is taken directly to the lower zone, the dining room , to meet the devil in the pit of hell Malamadre asked to undress, which is displayed as it is, he takes off his clothes nice guy, and once seen, you are asked to dress again, but John never gets to wear the clothes completely. Begins his descent into hell through a terrifying transformation marked by violence. As if it were an antihero eastwoodiano, "Pantera" as inmates call Juan, his life is marked by violence until everything explodes and ends become one over the enclosure. John is fearful when he is naked, and the man with fear acts through violence. The film is constantly maintained the thesis that man is evil by nature, simply stripped of its accessories: the objects that humanize and give it look politically correct. Once that has been stripped of them, act by instinct (which he complains Malamadre: "The next time you act for yourself, I'll cut you," as if he were the brains of the prison and only his head could leave plans) and leave your side anarchic flow and bestial. The cell 211 and the god of that prison, Malamadre a Tosar who created English Joker seems to have done its job: crazy the owner and lead to the end.
The other pillar on which rests the great script is the government, and how this is handled with society through politics: lies. At a time when the crisis deepens More than ever, our great president after being denied the crisis until it exploded in his face, the economy minister said he sees improvement comes when soon reach the 4 million unemployed. That feeling of vulnerability of the English society lies exercised by politicians is masterfully captured on tape: the negotiations are in their hands, and play and manipulate men and want. When Helen called to the jail to see how John, his partner says it's great but you can not talk, and conversely when John wants to talk to his wife the same way, Almansa, sent by the ministry, tells Malamadre only four injured, when the total number to 25. The lie also extends to the play of identities and appearances that seem to have all the characters except for prisoners and the two characters closer to John and Elena Malamadre. If all officers are labeled as liars and manipulators, not least the men are working for them "inside": Apache, as is revealed at first, is a confidant, and John is invented that disguise a murderer to go unnoticed between real criminals. This is a ploy to try to win the game, a web of lies (without intention of referring to the work of Ridley Scott) who, ironically, leaves the prisoners as the only honest men are of animals that are not nothing and are shown as they are, and so the deal from the top: his only request is accepted the shrimp, bait to get distracted prey. We also have some cowardly officers, as the warden of the jail, unable to give the order to attack because it involves a lot of pressure for him, and Bernardo, a man incapable of coping, such as when to stop Utrilla (a loose Resines) while beating a sick prisoner, or able to escape leaving a rookie in the middle of a riot. These, refugees in their superior physical position (the control tower from which all movement and view the animals as the animal almost as the villain Zaroff known better), play their particular game of chess with the only man in prison who actually works with the head and not an animal: Malamadre. And within that heading appears a chip that did not have one: ETA prisoners, and spilled a shocking conclusion: mass murderers have more privileges than anyone else. In prison there are classes, and the lives of these murderers is more valid than other murderers (perhaps because, as Tosar, "You have proved yourself more murderer that everyone here ... yes, in the distance, bombs ... "). When you see someone dead and everyone thinks it is a ETA, the cops go crazy, but when he discovers that not one of them, the police seem to say, quietly, just another dead more. This chilling revelation raises political tension means so overwhelming and the last step of John until the total transformation in this animal, this monster who had hidden, and that leads to an ending that, like the film, devoid of any epic, because We have never seen a film that speaks of the greatness of their characters. On the contrary, Cell 211 is full of lies, violence and a harsh and overwhelming reality.
The foreground of the film and shows us where we are going to hell inside. The owner of the cell that gives its name to the tape and cut the veins, without preventing violence in the foreground, shows Monsoon the slow suicide of a man who could no longer tolerate even slower death which was being placed in that earthly hell that is prison in Zamora. Start playing your cards and bring the viewer into a mental pulse that takes you to get into the game of cat and mouse that carries the film constantly in a tightrope walking exercise reminiscent of Kafka, however, also interesting to District 9 , we chronicled the loss of identity of an ordinary man. And if we referred to the destination before playing the protagonist in Kovak Box, we must turn to the influence of Fritz Lang in this film. What forces the protagonist, an irregular Alberto Ammann, going a day before starting work, rather than stay with his pregnant wife at home? What compels him to go to, life chances, hitting by pure chance by a stone falling from the ceiling and put in the slums end 211, an almost cursed, instead of being taken to the infirmary? Appearance. The script raises throughout the film, the transformation of character through her appearance, a resource that might be obvious but is used excellently. When his wife asks why he has to go a day earlier, he replies that he wants to make a good impression, perhaps the good cop, honest and unafraid. She replied "Do not take anything," referring to behave as it is with them when they are naked in bed after making love, where he openly shows as it is, he confesses all her fears, and who do not understand she is with him, a mere functionary, choosing the man you want. The importance of appearance re-establish when the riot broke out, and removed everything that he joins the civilized world (mobile, engagement ring, etc ...) after it is taken directly to the lower zone, the dining room , to meet the devil in the pit of hell Malamadre asked to undress, which is displayed as it is, he takes off his clothes nice guy, and once seen, you are asked to dress again, but John never gets to wear the clothes completely. Begins his descent into hell through a terrifying transformation marked by violence. As if it were an antihero eastwoodiano, "Pantera" as inmates call Juan, his life is marked by violence until everything explodes and ends become one over the enclosure. John is fearful when he is naked, and the man with fear acts through violence. The film is constantly maintained the thesis that man is evil by nature, simply stripped of its accessories: the objects that humanize and give it look politically correct. Once that has been stripped of them, act by instinct (which he complains Malamadre: "The next time you act for yourself, I'll cut you," as if he were the brains of the prison and only his head could leave plans) and leave your side anarchic flow and bestial. The cell 211 and the god of that prison, Malamadre a Tosar who created English Joker seems to have done its job: crazy the owner and lead to the end.
The other pillar on which rests the great script is the government, and how this is handled with society through politics: lies. At a time when the crisis deepens More than ever, our great president after being denied the crisis until it exploded in his face, the economy minister said he sees improvement comes when soon reach the 4 million unemployed. That feeling of vulnerability of the English society lies exercised by politicians is masterfully captured on tape: the negotiations are in their hands, and play and manipulate men and want. When Helen called to the jail to see how John, his partner says it's great but you can not talk, and conversely when John wants to talk to his wife the same way, Almansa, sent by the ministry, tells Malamadre only four injured, when the total number to 25. The lie also extends to the play of identities and appearances that seem to have all the characters except for prisoners and the two characters closer to John and Elena Malamadre. If all officers are labeled as liars and manipulators, not least the men are working for them "inside": Apache, as is revealed at first, is a confidant, and John is invented that disguise a murderer to go unnoticed between real criminals. This is a ploy to try to win the game, a web of lies (without intention of referring to the work of Ridley Scott) who, ironically, leaves the prisoners as the only honest men are of animals that are not nothing and are shown as they are, and so the deal from the top: his only request is accepted the shrimp, bait to get distracted prey. We also have some cowardly officers, as the warden of the jail, unable to give the order to attack because it involves a lot of pressure for him, and Bernardo, a man incapable of coping, such as when to stop Utrilla (a loose Resines) while beating a sick prisoner, or able to escape leaving a rookie in the middle of a riot. These, refugees in their superior physical position (the control tower from which all movement and view the animals as the animal almost as the villain Zaroff known better), play their particular game of chess with the only man in prison who actually works with the head and not an animal: Malamadre. And within that heading appears a chip that did not have one: ETA prisoners, and spilled a shocking conclusion: mass murderers have more privileges than anyone else. In prison there are classes, and the lives of these murderers is more valid than other murderers (perhaps because, as Tosar, "You have proved yourself more murderer that everyone here ... yes, in the distance, bombs ... "). When you see someone dead and everyone thinks it is a ETA, the cops go crazy, but when he discovers that not one of them, the police seem to say, quietly, just another dead more. This chilling revelation raises political tension means so overwhelming and the last step of John until the total transformation in this animal, this monster who had hidden, and that leads to an ending that, like the film, devoid of any epic, because We have never seen a film that speaks of the greatness of their characters. On the contrary, Cell 211 is full of lies, violence and a harsh and overwhelming reality.
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