8/10
Strong but quite realistic, I guess (not sure about the spoiler thing)
26 March 2005
Warning: Spoilers
10 years ago young men and women were like that. It's more a documentary than a fiction. I remember my brother coming home at 6 or 7 in the morning and sleeping through the day .

The story is about a group of upper-class young people in their early twenties. As most in Spain and Italy, they still live at home with their parents. One of them works, all of the others are students. The main character, Carlos, is a good student, but out of school he changes into a jerk. He does not respect his family, except for his grandparent, he teases his friends, does not believe in anything but having fun right away. I guess,however, his behavior is mask to hide feelings. Carlos hides his sadness. When he is extremely sad he cries in his room alone, but when others are around him he turns his usual tough self and almost jokes about the event that made him sad. The actor, however, did a great job in putting the sadness into his eyes. Everyone can see that though he speaks hard, Carlo's eyes are filled with anguish. He is afraid to show his feeling, he is afraid of feelings, and tries to brush them away speeding the nights through discos, pubs, drugs, and sex, with his group of friends.

At the end the strongest one is the one who realizes something is wrong and, who knows, is ready for a change. What added to the sense of lost is the dark. Most of the shows is about night life, but even the scenes taken during the day are kind of dark, grim. I watched this film because it starred Juan Diego Botto, an actor I had a crush on when I was about 10-11 and he acted as Felipe in Zorro. I must say he has grown-up well. As I said before, his portrait of Carlos is great. He can act he is obnoxious while his eyes show fear, anger, sadness, and guilt.
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