I could spoil the whole movie with a single Lost episode (but I won't obviously). Think I slightly prefer Contratiempo as that one left me completely flabbergasted but this is not far behind.
Watching Oriol Paulo's first feature LAST doesn't really do it any favors because NOW I feel I have a handle on his brand of twisty-turny mystery thriller and The Body, though it came first, has an air of familiarity about it. But of course, I realize my bias. If I had seen this first, I probably would have been blown away and a LATER film would have been the one that gave me the present feeling. That said, I do think you can see the puppet master's strings a little more easily in this one - Paulo gets better at hiding them in plain sight. Or I'm so used to distrusting everything that my brain accuses everyone and therefore I'm right about the solution in at least one of those thought tracks. A man murders his wife, but when her body disappears from the morgue, he's called in by the cops, propelling him into a Hitchcockian nightmare. Is he being framed and by who, or did he get rid of the body himself as the police suspect? Everything on the coroner's table including the stuff you didn't think was.
Enjoyable, stylish, twisty thriller that reminded me of Fincher's The Game. Just like that film this isn't meant to be taken seriously, but it provides plenty of entertainment and some surprisingly chilling moments of horror on the way to its gloriously convoluted climax.
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if you are reading this, watch contratiempoAdamov10
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I could spoil the whole movie with a single Lost episode (but I won't obviously). Think I slightly prefer Contratiempo as that one left me completely flabbergasted but this is not far behind.Rashed
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Watching Oriol Paulo's first feature LAST doesn't really do it any favors because NOW I feel I have a handle on his brand of twisty-turny mystery thriller and The Body, though it came first, has an air of familiarity about it. But of course, I realize my bias. If I had seen this first, I probably would have been blown away and a LATER film would have been the one that gave me the present feeling. That said, I do think you can see the puppet master's strings a little more easily in this one - Paulo gets better at hiding them in plain sight. Or I'm so used to distrusting everything that my brain accuses everyone and therefore I'm right about the solution in at least one of those thought tracks. A man murders his wife, but when her body disappears from the morgue, he's called in by the cops, propelling him into a Hitchcockian nightmare. Is he being framed and by who, or did he get rid of the body himself as the police suspect? Everything on the coroner's table including the stuff you didn't think was.lachyas
Enjoyable, stylish, twisty thriller that reminded me of Fincher's The Game. Just like that film this isn't meant to be taken seriously, but it provides plenty of entertainment and some surprisingly chilling moments of horror on the way to its gloriously convoluted climax.EmaBaque
One of my favorites movies ...