“On the sights” with Nicolás Francella
Nicolás Francella made her film debut as a leading man with this psychological thriller that aims to ride on Hitchcock’s usual premise of putting an ordinary person in an unusual situation.
in sights Follows a call center employee, who seems comfortable in a robotic job, until he is confronted with a call from a customer requesting to be immediately terminated from service and assuring him that he is pointing a rifle at him from to a neighbor in the building. and will trigger if you try to cut off the call.
“En la mira” with Nicolás Francella in a call center.
Francella He doesn’t look like a typical telemarketer, that trade that decades ago, before applications for food delivery arrived, was usually the first time employment for young people. Axel, his character, is a canchero who, unlike his peers, is not afraid to stand up to his boss.
Some acting tics of his father
“On the sights” with Nicolás Francella
Nicolás played this hummingbird along with some of his father’s acting tics on Guillermo’s serious cinematographic stage, as if he was lucky to be able to frown at that belief without experiencing endless clunkers as a bath boy, exterminator or ama.
Puma Goity delivers
“On the sights” with Puma Goity.
The Puma Goity is the voice on the phone and it performs well the function of providing various nuances to the anger of the client who seeks to unsubscribe from the service, but over time its presence becomes tedious because it does not remove itself from any clear observations that anticipate the possible reactions of the main character, to the point that it feels like a heavy spectator in the room without stopping to comment on what is happening on screen.
a voice on the phone
The voice on the phone as the ongoing engine of the film’s hero narrative arc is a source used, not so long ago, by thrillers that are almost identical in plot, beyond the results, such as deadly link either Mobile.
“In Sight” with Nicolás Francella and Emilia Attias.
On those occasions, the voice on the phone inspires the heroes to be better and get out of the mold, but Axel can barely get away from the main automaton behavior, though as the minutes go by he loses his calm and entered a spiral of desperation, never being able to completely deviate from the strict manual that the call center imposes on its employees.
in sights It may have been an effective b-thriller from the early years of this millennium, but this directorial debut from producer Ricardo Hornos and photographer Carlos Gil is too embellished with its message about the dehumanization of a system designed to victimize both victims, regardless of side. of the counter that they are in an eternal struggle of the poor against the poor.
The end is included a tangle of windings which ends with the film sinking while seeking to give it more depth. Hornos and Gil end by emphasizing without much meaning to the humane message of knowledge, after this hammer in about an hour and a half phone conversation.
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in sights
Qualifications: regular
thriller. Argentina, 2022, 85 ‘. Direction: Ricardo Hornos and Carlos Gil. may: Nicolás Francella, Paula Reca, Emilia Attias and Maxi de la Cruz.
Source: Clarin
