For her, his expressive eyes ache of deep affection and hope but there’s a feeling of doom attached to all three. In one way, you’re rooting for Mario, but at the same time, his gross self-righteousness is off-putting–not to mention reckless and negligent.Īdding to the stakes, Mario’s partner, Julia (María Vázquez), is pregnant. The immorality of Mario’s actions pitted against Antonio’s career makes for intriguing interplay. Mario decides to give Antonio the same slow, languishing death, albeit under different circumstances, that his brother suffered.
Plaza demonstrates Mario’s quickly growing duality early in the film, through a clever wide-pan shot where he walks from the hospital as a gentile servant, to his car as a vengeful man plotting Antonio’s demise. However, he doesn’t see himself as a villain in any way, just as Antonio sees himself merely as a businessman.
It’s a complicated notion, given it was Mario that gave his brother the final dose that killed him. Antonio knows his thuggish man-children aren’t fit to lead, which comes to light in short order.įamiliar with Antonio from his former life as a drug-addled metal musician, Mario has revenge in his heart: to get back at the older man for pumping poison that partly led to his brother’s overdose. Here, Plaza plays with ideas of fairness and equity of the practice.Īntonio’s knucklehead sons Toño (Ismael Martínez, in a strong showing) and Kike (Enric Auquer) frighten Mario from the outset, with the typical “if anything happens to him” threats.
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The idea of reciprocal justice predates the Bible, first codified in the Code of Hammurabi, as a restriction on punishment for a crime. Director and cinematographer Pablo Rosso create Old Testament tension in the framing throughout. He subtly pinches Mario and the drug lord, Antonio Padin (Xan Cejudo), closer together with each scene, starting with the latter’s admission to the nursing home. Plaza ( Veronica) slowly builds out the overcast and dreary world, set in the seaport of Galicia, Spain. Director Paco Plaza plays with ideas of equity of reciprocal justice in this Spanish suspense thriller.
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