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SOMOS LO QUE HAY (aka WE ARE WHAT WE ARE)
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Jared
May 25, 2012, 12:43:26 AM5/25/12
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How disappointing. Gritty Mexican horror drama from Jorge Michel
Grau. Patriarch of a rather twisted family expires (in a blackly
comic scene that promises dark humour which never turns up) leaving
the wife and kids to work out how they will continue the family hobby
without him (said hobby being...
MILD SPOILERS - and good luck reading anything about this and managing
to avoid them...
...cannibalism). I really wanted to like this. Great premise,
potentially interesting characters and a clever opportunity to put
some social commentary in a horror film. Sadly all of which is
wasted. As one of the reviews said, this is family drama hiding in a
horror film - which I don't have a problem with, except that the
family drama is done so badly. As the TV series of Michael C Hall
have taught us, a dead father can still be a powerful character - I'm
not asking for a ghost, but we learn absolutely nothing about the lost
father and so how can we understand the imapct of his loss? The
characters argue and jockey for position but I don't know why and I
don't really care. Similarly the decision to make the characters all
unsympathetic is a brave one, but not pulled off, so after the big
climax my reaction is "Yeah, so what?". Very rare that I complain a
film is too short but I wouldn't have minded adding to the 90mins run
time if it was to add some depth.
On top of that we have a pretty lame horror plot with some unlikable
people killing someother unlikable people and some other unlikable
people trying to catch them, all in aim of some "ritual" that is never
explained. But it's all OK because of the subtext: lower classes
fighting each other instead of their oppressors, it's like they're
EATING EACH OTHER. Get it? It's not exactly zombies in a mall.
One of the most boring films The White Lady has ever seen. I
sympathise, but I'm also annoyed because it should have been good.
Grau. Patriarch of a rather twisted family expires (in a blackly
comic scene that promises dark humour which never turns up) leaving
the wife and kids to work out how they will continue the family hobby
without him (said hobby being...
MILD SPOILERS - and good luck reading anything about this and managing
to avoid them...
...cannibalism). I really wanted to like this. Great premise,
potentially interesting characters and a clever opportunity to put
some social commentary in a horror film. Sadly all of which is
wasted. As one of the reviews said, this is family drama hiding in a
horror film - which I don't have a problem with, except that the
family drama is done so badly. As the TV series of Michael C Hall
have taught us, a dead father can still be a powerful character - I'm
not asking for a ghost, but we learn absolutely nothing about the lost
father and so how can we understand the imapct of his loss? The
characters argue and jockey for position but I don't know why and I
don't really care. Similarly the decision to make the characters all
unsympathetic is a brave one, but not pulled off, so after the big
climax my reaction is "Yeah, so what?". Very rare that I complain a
film is too short but I wouldn't have minded adding to the 90mins run
time if it was to add some depth.
On top of that we have a pretty lame horror plot with some unlikable
people killing someother unlikable people and some other unlikable
people trying to catch them, all in aim of some "ritual" that is never
explained. But it's all OK because of the subtext: lower classes
fighting each other instead of their oppressors, it's like they're
EATING EACH OTHER. Get it? It's not exactly zombies in a mall.
One of the most boring films The White Lady has ever seen. I
sympathise, but I'm also annoyed because it should have been good.
Blackwingbear
May 25, 2012, 4:28:55 PM5/25/12
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Call me a weirdo, but I loved it - you're basically watching the family dissolve into primal pack-order right in front of you. The opening (custodians mopping-up Dad's remains from the shopping-center before anyone notices) made me smile. I thought it was effective.
Jared
May 27, 2012, 11:01:51 PM5/27/12
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