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"Pablo resume all"

Rec, this is the last job title English director Jaume Balaguer already the author of films such as Darkness (2000) and the not so lucky Fragile (2005). Back in 2007 with the collaboration of Paco Plaza for the genre they prefer, the horror.

The situation is set in Spain, Barcelona to be exact. It all starts with the presentation of the two main characters. Angela and Pablo are working for a local television station. Their program will be "while you sleep" because their work is to show the jobs of all those who join, to be precise, only with the arrival of evening.

This night their task is to follow a team of firefighters and maybe their call for a possible intervention. Call that takes place. Everything seems to be normal: an old woman screaming repeatedly in his palace warns all roommates. When they got there and made good by a police patrol, our players will come across anything but a docile old. This In fact, unexpectedly and somewhat mysterious ends up attacking a fireman and a police officer causing them irreparable harm and a creeping sense of dread and disbelief in all the others. But this is only the beginning of a film that began so undeniably slow and flat, the viewer will eventually shake several times making him jump from his chair.

Introduced in 2007 in Venice "Rec" Balaguer juggles in my opinion very well in that direction, although not original themes and type of recovery ("Blair Witch Project", "28 Days Later" only for name two) proves a good product reformer than many other films of similar genre-out until recently and which have failed to grasp the sign remained at a relatively low level of mediocrity.

elements belonging to horror are all there and the atmosphere is typical of the genre.

The skill of the director may also lies in 'knowing how to create a bond between the characters and the audience, which ultimately is definitely rooting for them hoping for a way to salvation. Characters are all well characterized and that the actors, Manuela Velasco in the first place, to interpret the situation very well find themselves living full showing of their own humanity.

The real strength of this so "Rec" is not so much the story, given multiple times, as the skill of the director for which the only worth the ticket price.

It 'also a soundtrack that does not particularly affects the film but this does not even penalized.

We also address issues of great importance, as the criticism that the director is coming to television which is increasingly intent on wanting to forcibly send images increasingly barbaric and ruthless because that's what viewers want, maybe not their fault but because this is so and who have been accustomed to.

conclude by advising the vision of this film to everyone, especially those not impressed by the blood. I recommend it to everyone but fans of the genre which might, in this mix of pure splatter combined with fear and tension, recover a bit 'of that quality in this old glories of the past and more recent works have not been able to emulate.
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