Post by Vits on Oct 1, 2020 21:05:38 GMT
In EL PRACTICANTE (THE PARAMEDIC), a man named Ángel gets paralyzed after an accident. He blames his friend Ricardo (he was the one driving when it happened) and now his girlfriend Vanesa ("Vane") has to take care of him. What makes this better than a lot of other movies about a person's descent into madness is that there are already hints of Ángel's evil side at the beginning. The change doesn't feel jarring. Overall, it's an entertaining thriller with good performances by Mario Casas and Déborah François, but after it ended, I was left with a lot of questions:
6/10
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Ángel hacks Vane's phone in order to track her calls and messages. However, he wouldn't have been able to do it if he hadn't installed a certain app on her phone. Even if this app exists in real life, how are hackers expected to grab the other person's phone? Not everyone feels comfortable leaving their phone, regardless of whether a loved one is near. Ángel has clearly always been very methodical, so why would he leave his computer on (which is how Vane discovers he hacked her)? How did Ángel survive for months after Vane left him? He couldn't work and he said the money he got from the government wasn't enough (hence why Vane was supporting him). We saw Vane talking to a friend (the one who convinced her to leave Ángel). Why didn't she call Ángel asking about Vane's disappearance the same way Ricardo did? How did Ángel get into Ricardo's apartment on the night that he killed him? After being Ángel's prisoner for several days, Vane finally escapes, but not without fighting first. It wouldn't be a stalker thriller without the villain falling from a height, but it's different this time, because Ángel survives, only now his entire body is paralyzed. Vane tells the hospital that she's his girlfriend and says she'll take him home (she clearly means she'll torture him as revenge). I understand not taking a man like this to a regular prison, but wouldn't he still be treated as an inmate at the hospital? Why is he allowed to leave, accompanied or not? Do they think his condition is punishment enough? Wouldn't the people working there have a file that says that Vane was his victim, causing them to be suspicious about her intentions?
6/10
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