Since I like watching movies, and those who know me know it, I always receive recommendations, something I like, especially when it comes to small hidden gems, movies made with a low budget but that get a very good result, like Coherence. So, a few weeks ago I spoke about Borgman a Dutch origin film, which I had been recommended, and today I'm talking about Tesis, a spanish movie.

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Year: 1996 Category: Thriller. Director: Alejandro Amenábar. Cast: Ana Torrent, Fele Martínez, Eduardo Noriega, Xabier Elorriaga, Miguel Picazo, Nieves Herranz, Rosa Campillo, Paco Hernandez, Rosa Avila.

Plot

A university student is doing a thesis on audiovisual violence until her research leads her to find the video of the murder of a student at the same university.

Opinion

Ángela, a young university student in Madrid, is doing a thesis on audiovisual violence, which is why she asks Professor Figueroa, the director of her thesis, to help her get videos that have been censored for having a very high degree of violence. The teacher, who decides to help her, goes to the video library, where he discovers a hidden room in which allegedly violent videos are stored. While that happens, Angela gets Chema, a classmate, to invite her to his house, where he has a collection of very violent videos, and even though the house of this fellow seems like a psycho's den, she decides to spend the day watching videos with him.

The next day, in the university, Professor Figueroa does not attend the class, so Angela decides to look for him in the university's viewing room, where she sees him killed, apparently, he suffered an asthma attack while watching the tape, which is why Angela instead of telling the police, decides to take the tape and flee without telling anyone. Due to the panic Angela can not watch the tape so she decides to save it. However, the next day Professor Castro, now a substitute for Figueroa, informs the class that the professor died while watching a movie that disappeared. Given this fact, Chema deduces that Angela was the one who took the tape and extorts it for her to show it to him, something to which she agrees. Finally both see the tape, which shows the murder of a university student who has been missing for two years.

I must say that the first impression I had of the film was very bad, it seemed that it was an independent film with very low budget, as it is, only €721,214 for the year 1996, however, after a few minutes the movie starts to improve, becoming a wonderful Thriller.

It's the only work I've seen from the director, Alejandro Amenabar, who did it quite well, managed to create a psychologically disturbing atmosphere during the course of the whole film, causing a suffocating suspense that reaches its peak in a scene that, for me, it is the best made of the film, the one in which the lighting time begins to run out, and the protagonists find themselves in a truly threatening situation.

As for the performances, I must say that I did not like them, except for the protagonist, who also does not do a very special job, the rest of them seem very mediocre actors, of the worst performances I've seen, they do not convince me a bit, the only thing that has in their favor is that they are faces that I have never seen, and that I hope never see again, they are the weakest part of the film, and it is not worthwhile that I dedicate myself to talking about each performance separately.

The script works well, although after a certain moment I feel that the film is too long, its as if there were a few minutes left over that the director could have saved the viewer. Regarding photography, I must say that the only thing I liked was that the staging has a rather gloomy tone, managing to generate its own environment, getting the viewer to have greater immersion in the film.

Finally, I must say that it is an entertaining film, it is worth seeing, although it is not a truly special work, it has some positive and some negative things, so from a certain perspective it is balanced.

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Score

7/10

An entertaining Thriller, but not essential, quite acceptable if you want to try some independent and low budget movie.