Credited cast: | |||
Mía Maestro | ... | Carla | |
Rubén Blades | ... | Carla's Father | |
Carlos Julio Molina | ... | Trece | |
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Pedro Perez | ... | Budu |
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Carlos Madera | ... | Niga Sibilino |
Jean Paul Leroux | ... | Martin | |
Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
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Dalila Colombo | ||
Elba Escobar | ... | Drugstore Cashier | |
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Dimas González | ... | Guardia |
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Miguel Ángel Landa | ... | Police's Councilor. |
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Balmore Moreno | ... | Oficial Briceno |
Ermahn Ospina | ... | Marcelo | |
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Rider | ... | Cangrejo |
In a night pregnant with a strange mix of tension and dizzy abandon, lovers Carla and Martin prowl clubs before drunkenly wandering back to his car. While he comes across as crass nouveau riche, she appears more liberal. Their conspicuous affluence, however, makes them ideal targets for kidnappers, and the trio of Trece, Budu and Niga gets a bead on them and promptly sweeps them up at gunpoint. The kidnappers then demand $20,000 to be delivered in two hours. Carla phones her rich father Sergio to procure the money, but chaos soon ensues. A botched ATM robbery is followed by a stopover at the palatial estate of a gay drug dealer. Written by Sujit R. Varma
I think it was a very good money, and feeds the paranoia every citizen of Caracas lives with. this movie hit me very close to home, and I could relate to the story very well... sadly.
The technical aspect was OK. I'm not really to nit picky about such things, as long as it doesn't bothers me while watching the movie. The acting was good enough, even great at some points.
Now, the movie can be a little bit biased, which is not necessarily bad. It shows a problem: kidnapping, crimes etc; and social resentment as the fuel of such things... from the victim point of view, being the victim wealthy people, and the criminals, poor people. So I guess people could identify with both sides: either by being disgusted by the elitists Martín; or enraged by how a good nature girl as Carla is passing through such an horrible experience.
At the end, it's nobody's fault.