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I mean, it's a Twilight Zone episode...

posted 7 years ago by TheManInOil
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knockoff. Not just in style, with the narrator opening the story etc. and the episodic feel, but an actual specific episode, which was also adapted as one of the segments of The Twilight Zone movie.

Even so, it's a pretty creepy and very disturbingly weird homage. Worth seeing, if only for the atmospheric eeriness of it.

The ending is a bit muddled. Spoilers: They didn't seem able to make up their minds about how much of it was the kid's fault. Claiming he was trying to stop it right after showing his evil grinning and forcing people to kill each other isn't very convincing. Nor is his fear of the dog when he was in control. They sort of make up for it by saying at the end that he's just one of the great dangers in the world 'or it seems that way', suggesting that perhaps he is actually every and all dangers. Maybe he's god. Or the devil. Or, the story just doesn't make a lot of sense. But it leaves you feeling a vague sense of unease, which is the point.

[–] Xcalat3 (3701) 7 years ago

Yes it is a lot like a couple of Twilight episodes put together.

[–] Devotee (98) 7 years ago

Maybe he's god. Or the devil. Or, the story just doesn't make a lot of sense.

At the end, when the kid is in the bus and he browses through some of his books you can see two particularly interesting titles: "El incidente", which would imply that Ignacio caused the events of Isaac Ezban's previous movie of the same title, and "Masacre en la plaza" which is a clear reference to The Tlatelolco massacre that took place in the Plaza de las Tres Culturas in 1968 (the movie takes place in that year). His mother stated that she wanted to take him to a doctor in the Tlatelolco section of Mexico City.

The other books, "El desastre del terremoto" and "La gran ola" might be references to the 1985 Mexico City earthquake and the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, implying that Ignacio is causing those natural disasters in the same way he caused the events of "El incidente" and this movie.

Whether he's a god or a devil would be another debate. In this movie he is just a kid playing a game without really understanding the consequences.

EDIT: I did like the movie but I felt it was more of a very slow and long Twilight Zone episode. The Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits and other similar TV series were incredibly smart at telling great stories in a short amount of time.