Diamond Flash

A film with potential, that recovers something of Tarantino's style, especially in his way of developing the story in the sum of short stories, in the manner of Pulp Fiction, and that converge on a supposed common axis. That axis would be the overcoming of a childhood trauma and now as a young adult suffered by Elena, who has been raised as an indirect victim of domestic violence suffered by her mother and later by herself. The music is suggestive at the beginning of the credits but then it is practically absent throughout the film. The performances are acceptable but they cannot sustain that common axis, since the fragmentation of the short stories, which are also edited with cuts, weaken and disjoin a story that is dispersed. Perhaps the problem is that the film pretends to be serious, in the manner of a thriller, showing personal dramas that are not moving because they are not sufficiently developed and then embraces that ridiculous absurdity of Tarantino that unfortunately does not reach the level of the director . At the end of the day, a film that seems a crude project, almost enjoyable but certainly, afterwards, will not be engraved in your memory.

This movie was the first one from Carlos Vermut. Recorded with only 25,000 euros don't have anything to envied with a movie wiht much more budget. Aparently the movie is about short stories with a line in common: A superhero call Diamond flash. Aparently this movie is mainly acted by women, so someone could think it's a movie about girl power. But this movie is everything except a typical superhero movie or a "metoo" movement movie. It's about people and wickedness in many different environments. And because all this environments are close for a normal society person (you can recognise most of the sets if you have ever walk around Madrid). That makes this movie even more dark.

Some of this ideas were later development in his second movie. "Magical girl" Probably more polished movie, but in here the observer could find the sprout for that great movie.

In my opinion,between von trier and del rey movies angle of lead female roles between charlotte gainsbourg and eva llorach there are same points;torment against women,misogyny.