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Makes many of the same things it critizes


I saw Upa! beliving, as it was advertised, that it was a comedy witch, simply put, tells a story.
First of all, the movie is not a comedy. It's not funny, I even wonder why it's clasiffied as comedy.
But the issue is that just telling a story is not enough. You need (if we are talking about classic story telling here, as they say) to identify yourself with a caracter. You need suspense, tension. Nothing of that happens in the movie.
As for the critism over Argentinian cinema, is not enough to put a song in the end and a couple actors saying what the director(s) think. What I mean is, if you want to write an essay... then write an essay, don't put that essay as a couple lines in a movie.

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For me was a nice and (why not?) funny movie.
Not so great, only good.

If you have only 15.000 euros to make a movie, this is all that you need to have a lot of tension and suspense.

The only problem is this movie is EXCLUSIVE for the people that make movies in Argentina.
You can see insight of a Argentine production, this is very interesting and obviously FUNNY, but... who is interesting in this..??, me and.....

Oscar from Rosario City
Argentina

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