Director: Marc Vigil
Cast: Pedro Alonso , Nacho Fresneda , Carmina Barrios , Àlex Monner , José Ángel Egido , Raúl Prieto , Zaira Romero , Maite Sandoval , Javier Godino , Enric Benavent , Miguel De Lira
Plot: "Q" is a former journalist reconverted in a writer of crime novel books. Man of success respected by his fans, in real life Q is a cold-blooded psychopath and lonely man with any feeling or empathy by any other, with a bad relation with his younger brother Nacho and living with a compulsion to kill that eventually he translates to his novels, writing about it as fiction. After the excellent critics of the latest work about the murder of a taxi driver, Q's wish to write a new story with a more important victim make him to chose Ferrán Carretero, teacher of Applied Economics in the University of Valencia and former politician of long carrier, recently involved in a scandal of corruption.While researching corruption for his new book, a successful crime novelist shades the line between fiction and reality.
My Movie Review: The movie is a tense ambiguous thriller that weighted heavily on suspense rather focusing on developing the story to be more compelling' results in flat generic showcase! The Silence Of The Marsh is a Spanish import of Netflix latest begins interestingly enough as a mysterious man standing at the eponymous marsh giving us a killer vibe we'll intrigue to follow! Pedro Alonso is the main reason you've watch it specially us still have Money Heist hangover a very perceptive actor as we loved his brilliance and scene-stealing performance as Berlin here doesn't show much but still have poise and high tone look as writer merging fiction with reality:) Others think it turned into something with no sense and you get lost in what they are trying to show mostly disappointed towards the latter part but I find myself puzzled and amused until the last seconds I admit it's not the best and I don't get the story much still I like seeing either way:)
Critics Consensus: A vibrant thriller, loses tension... as the plot progresses. The Spanish thriller has become a brilliant genre as well as a frequent one in our theaters. Fails to adequately maintain the mystery - Is this real, or just in the writer's head? And messing around with that "reality" as the closing credits are about to roll is just a cheat, and dumb to boot. It's a relatively taut 92 minutes, but it's a scattered narrative, in need of more scenes or less characters.An extraordinary and raw thriller with an exceptional performance from Pedro Alonso. He types away in his waterfront warehouse rental, conjuring up merciless revenge for minor offenses and vigilante murders that tidy up Valencia’s politics. But the fellow is actually committing the crimes he’s writing about. That’s not the only conclusion we can draw from Marc Vigil’s film of the Juanjo Braulio novel. “Reality” and “the writer’s imagination” are blurred, all the way to the anti-climax. The hero’s murders are routine. At least the villain, the menace of “The Silence of the Marsh” gives us something to chew on while he's chewing up his scenes:0)
Source: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/el_silencio_del_pantano
Critics Consensus: A vibrant thriller, loses tension... as the plot progresses. The Spanish thriller has become a brilliant genre as well as a frequent one in our theaters. Fails to adequately maintain the mystery - Is this real, or just in the writer's head? And messing around with that "reality" as the closing credits are about to roll is just a cheat, and dumb to boot. It's a relatively taut 92 minutes, but it's a scattered narrative, in need of more scenes or less characters.An extraordinary and raw thriller with an exceptional performance from Pedro Alonso. He types away in his waterfront warehouse rental, conjuring up merciless revenge for minor offenses and vigilante murders that tidy up Valencia’s politics. But the fellow is actually committing the crimes he’s writing about. That’s not the only conclusion we can draw from Marc Vigil’s film of the Juanjo Braulio novel. “Reality” and “the writer’s imagination” are blurred, all the way to the anti-climax. The hero’s murders are routine. At least the villain, the menace of “The Silence of the Marsh” gives us something to chew on while he's chewing up his scenes:0)
Source: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/el_silencio_del_pantano
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