O Crime do Beco dos Gatos

"The Cat's Alley Crime" is a "Groundhog Day" of sorts with a detective like character (Marcio Vito) who receives a mysterious note under his apartment door, telling him to go to Cat's Alley Street at 6 PM and nothing else but whenever he gets there he gets killed, and later on already knowing what happens in the following day he goes prepared to see what's going to happen but...he gets killed again, and it goes and on with a slightly variation of events.

I wonder what talented veteran director Ruy Guerra was doing with a short film like this. Zero substance and zero style. It's quite mysterious but it doesn't find a positive way to engage audiences in any matter since there's very little dialogue in this one man's show, the mystery keeps going on and we can't understand why, neither imagine some theory of why, and worst of all is that we can't see a bloody things since everything's so dark and so poorly lit that one may wonder what was everything that was presented. A small waste of time but still a waste, and you know the thing with time, right? The less we waste it, the better things can get done, like watching a great short film worthy of attention. 4/10.