alvimann

What a great pleasure to watch a movie with such a great level of acting between the slang Spanish words, faces, body language, etc. Most of the actors truly represents their role in the society by the rules and regulations established by their social class. Excellent representation of the poor class struggling to avoid drug addiction, specially the drug called in Uruguay "pasta base" same as "crack", that destroys almost all of the human aspect of the person involved. The fight for the neighborhood is also well represented as the role of the police, that, sadly, is always trying to get its "cut" of the deal between the poor and the rich. Thumb up! Totally recommended!

I have seen this movie as a kid and I did not understand it at all. Now I have watched it again and I now I understand some of the clues and turn of it.

I agree that this film is less about the plot and more about the ambient, giving the viewer a quiet, sympathetic and charm view of Montevideos city and moreover the ambient inside the "Palacio Salvo" building is also so great that each of those scenes could be taken from the movie and seen as short films without loosing their artistic value.

Also, the unexplainable scenes with the firemen using their water as "rain" make the plot much more confusing as it is. The characters have some sort of connection between them that could carry on with the plot and the intrigue, but there are a lot of questions that remains in the mind of the viewers: What is the connection between Baltazar Brum's suicide and Juan Carlos Onetti exile?, Why the French reporter is looking for the missing image of Brum's suicide? What is the connection between her and the "Moco" juvenile thief?, and so on.

Excellent piece of film art. Thumbs up!