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Weak Ending - Spoilers

posted 5 years ago by Rose Dickens (55)
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The movie is worth for the performances of most of the cast that includes great performers such as Penelope Cruz, Javier Barden and Ricardo Darín. Despite that the ending was frustrating. It's kind of embarassing learning that the family and most of the town knew or suspected that Paco was Irene's real father but he and his wife have never thought or heard about that. Also, when the kidnappers are revealed I was so disappointed because those characters were the ones least explored and shown during the film. I didn't care about them throughout the movie, they had no relevance at all, I couldn't even get their names, it was like they were there just like furniture and then suddenly they are the ones responsible for the main plot.

[–] kawaiikiwi (93) 5 years ago

Agreed

[–] KBiker (766) 5 years ago

I'd like to add that I enjoyed most of the movie, once it got going, which took about 30 minutes of endless scenes at a wedding. After that a story finally developed, the kidnapping and its aftermath. But then came the ending, of which I'll second your emotions about its weakness. Also add the sequence when the girl is first released, and Penelope (the girl's mother) shows up, and all she can do is sob and smother her and kiss her over and over, when the girl is obviously so weak from not having her meds for days that it's obvious she needs medical attention NOW. Where was the urgency in getting her to a doctor?

And then there's the scene when the family is in the car, about to leave for Argentina, with the girl in the back, still in a weakened condition and spaced out from her ordeal. One of the kidnappers, the boy she went for a wild motorcycle ride with prior to the kidnapping, comes to the car and speaks to her, saying he hopes they can see each other again, and she doesn't say a word, doesn't reveal who he is. What sloppy movie making.

[–] indigodaddy (24) 5 years ago

Felipe (Paco’s nephew), the boy she went on the motorcycle ride with, was not one of the two kidnappers. He looked somewhat like the one kidnapper, but it wasn’t him (it was the male hairdresser who was smoking all the time). Take a look at the full cast on the IMDB page and you will see the other actor who is the kidnapper. It’s not the Felipe character.

Secondly, to those on the thread complaining about the underdevelopment of the kidnappers and that we don’t care about them. This is by design. We aren’t supposed to care about them. The movie is not really about the kidnapping or whodunnit etc. It’s purely about the complexity of the relationships between the two “fathers” and the daughter, and the dynamics of the two families.

The whole core of this movie is lost upon those complaining apparently...

[–] TheArgentinian (6426) 2 years ago

good post. these guys missed the point. It's not Mel Gibson's Ransom.
Also the boy at the end is the first one the kids saw when they arrived

[–] contreras (458) 4 years ago

They should have left it at no one finding out who the kidnappers where except for the mom when she looks at the shoes.