C


This is a Spanish movie about a young woman who comes to a psychiatric facility to fill a vacant. She deals with some pretty disturbed patients in there and soon she starts questioning her own sanity. She sees images that are not there, she has disturbing dreams and day visions and that all is connected to an insane murderer in the facility who claims that he's innocent and a young girl who was traumatized after witnessing a murder.

Now the thing is that by now I have simply seen too many of sanity/insanity movies like this one and most of them were better. Movies that fall into the category of this one are Oldboy, Trauma, Fight Club and The Machinist. This is exactly the style the movie is filmed in. It's a cool and bleak colored movie in which the facility itself thanks to great color contrasts and good cinematography oozes menace. However, I had the "been there seen that" feeling throughout the entire movie and I promise yxou, you will as well if you ever get a chance to see it.

Everything, from the movie's visual style over its cinematography and siturbing images up to its twist ending has been done before in one way or another. I am sure that if I hadn't seen all the aforementioned movies before and have seen this one, I'd have loved it. But now it comes across as a halfway successful rip-off, but a rip-off nonetheless. You'll probably figure out the ending about 20 minutes into the movie like I did as well. The very ending (the last 15 seconds actually!) are a bit unexpected and at the same time pretty shocking, though, but can't make up for the rest of the movie.

I was also wondering why the imagery of ants is always connected with insanity? I have seen that in Oldboy, in Trauma and now in this one. Why ants?