Actually it's Belen who screwed herself if Fabiana should die. When the old woman (Emma) returns, she knows that Belen is the only one who knew about the "safe room."
How attentive were you while watching the film? Emma died during the film and Belen got to know this. Unless you mean the ghost of Emma was returning!
Belen is not dead and she was never "missing," so Adrian cannot be guilty of a murder that never occurred. The biggest plot hole of this movie is that Belen never "disappeared" and no one ever called the police. So how and why did the police think she was "missing" in the first place? She left a video message for Adrian, telling him she was leaving him, packing up her bags, and for all intents and purposes leaving him, presumably returning to Barcelona (Spain). Adrian clearly did not think she was "missing." There was no evidence of foul play and Belen even tells him not to try look for her. He sits there crying on the bed, then drinks a glass of whiskey, then goes to the bar, gets drunk and crashes at Fabiana's. The next morning he wakes up, leaves hastily to go to work, then returns to the bar to apologize to Fabiana for being a jerk. They spend the night together at his house and he invites Fabiana to stay over again. The following morning the police show up at his door, claiming Belen is a missing person. Huh???!!! Who told them she was missing? The answer is no one did. Adrian clearly did not think she was missing because he never attempts to look for her. Why should he if she told him she was leaving? And if Adrian is to take Belen at her word (and why shouldn't he?), then Adrian was perfectly justified to find someone else from that moment on.
That seems like a big paragraph from someone about a film who watched it while being half asleep. It is shown in the flashback scenes that Adrian clearly reported her disappearance to the police soon after having suspected foul play.
The video does not mean anything. She could have been kidnapped and forced to have made the video. We could expect Adrian to know more about Belen at that point than we (the audience) know about her, so there is every reason why he might not have believed she could've/would've left him like that.
Yet the audience is made to think Adrian is an insensitive jerk for hooking up "so quickly" after his girlfriend Belen "disappeared." Except that only the audience (and Belen herself) knows that she really did not leave Adrian and was actually trapped in the house. But because the police claim Belen is missing, and the audience knows she didn't actually leave, we are duped into believing Adrian is guilty of something. Ironically enough, Adrian was justified in all of his actions.
Adrian was not guilty. He was just unhappy. The police claimed that Belen was missing because she was reported as missing and she was actually missing. Only she wasn't out of town or anywhere. She was missing trapped in her own house.
This film is about 'The Hidden Face' that each character has. In the first half Adrian is shown to be a jerk, but it is later revealed that he did actually mourn the loss of Belen and there was nothing really serious going on with Veronica as well as he breaks away from that. Him being with Fabiana could very well have been his desperate way to cope with Belen's loss and there wasn't a definite idea that it was going to be a permanent/long term stand.
Similarly, the hidden faces of Belen and Fabiana are revealed in the second half of the film.
It is Belen who brought all of this upon herself when she decided to deceive Adrian. She is really the villain in the movie but made to seem like its heroine. In the last scene, Belen is sitting on the beach in Barcelona, so we can assume she allowed Fabiana to die a most horrible death. In film terminology, Belen would be the "femme fatale." She started off innocent and likeable enough, but at the point she decides to deceive Adrian and pretend to leave him, she descends deeper into depravity until she commits cold-blooded murder.
The plot falls apart if you think about it much. This movie is entertaining for the twisted plot and attractive actresses, but falls apart with any degree of scrutiny. Recommended for pure mindless entertainment.
You are again way off the mark. Fabiana is the 'Femme Fatale' because she's the one who reveals to her friend about her choosing Adrian for his money. She is the one who originally wishes for Belen to be dead when Adrian goes to identify the body. She is the one who plots Belen's continued stay inside by carefully hiding her knowledge/key about Belen's whereabouts to continue her courtship with Adrian.
Belen was disappointed with Adrian's flirting, but she meant no harm when she wanted to do the test. Leaving Fabiana inside is not Belen's plan/plot, but simply the result of her sufferings. She had nearly faced death and Fabiana had played a big part in that just because she was a competitor. Fabiana got what she deserved. Adrian also frustrated her further by having Fabiana around and having sex in front of her. She probably did not want to frame Adrian, but it is clear why she did not feel all right to continue her relationship with Adrian, having been unaware of his action taken against the continued flirting with Veronica. And she was unaware that was being suspected for her disappearance and she had no idea that the police would frame him for Fabiana's as well as the scene where the policeman threatens Adrian occurs outside the house.
The only thing that falls apart is your attention/interpretation of what happens to be a brilliant and an atmospheric film.
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