El desconocido

Well, many weeks ago I could see the Spanish movie "El desconocido" in cinemas and I really enjoyed it.

El desconocido is a fil directed by the Spanish director Dani de la Torre and in the cast we can find well-known actors like Luis Tosar as the main character, Javier Gutierrez or Goya Toledo. It's based on a real fact and that they have made up a story to portray the case.

Carlos works in a bank as a director, it means that he is responsable of the customs accounts, he manage their money and he also is the person who negotiated whit them to improve their conditions or to offer them a new investment fund. With all this power, Carlos has misled their costumers and he has participated in the corruption of their bank to get money for himself illegally.

A current morning, while he is carrying his daughter ans his son to school he receive a call in a phone that doesn't belong to him. It's a man that explains Carlos that they have a bomb  in the car. If they try to move and they stand up from the sitting it will explode.

At first Carlos doesn't care about this and he think it's a joke but the man who are talking with him know a lot of things about their life and Carlos start to considerate that it can be true. The man at the other side of the phone ask for a huge amount of money, concretely all the money that Carlos has, and he only have some hours.

Carlos doesn't let his children in the school and they started to note that something doesn't work well.

The film continues and the situation is going worse. Carlos try to get all the money and "the unknowing" is trying to keep all behind control.

All goes bad because the time is already out and the police have begun to intervene because they can't let that one car with a bomb  driving around the city. 

But before that, Carlos has tried to get the money and for that he has started again to deceive their customers. 

Carlos can meet the man who has planned all. He explains to Carlos the reason that made him do all that: the bank where Carlos works has made him lose everything and he also lost his wife, she committed suicide. "The unknowing" want revenge and he also want all the money that Carlos and the bank have stolen to him. 

At the end of the film, Carlos see that policeman can't really help him because although his children are already saved and the principal bomb is deactivated, there is another bomb in the car and the countdown is managed by the "unknown". Carlos decide to solve the problem for himself and he escapes from the police and he drives to the port, one place where the bomb can explode without hurting too many people. 

(Now I should tell you who the story ends but I don't like to do "spoiler" so I think it's better you see it).

El Desconocido is recorded in Galicia and the film takes place always in the same scene: inside of the Carlos car. It's there where all the action takes places, where Carlos and his children live this terrifying moment. The film has spectacular scenes when police chase Carlos bombs car for all the city. Then, the fact that the film is all recorded inside of the car make that the viewers can live the moments of anxiety and stress like the characters. 

I think something important is how you see the characters, I mean, you can see Carlos like the victim of the case and the "unknowing" like the mother***** but if you think it, the unknowing is the real victim of all! 

And I have more to say, if you see the film, at the end (yes, the end I haven't told you) you will see who is paying for all. And I say no more because I don't want to reveal the end. 

I liked this film because it's based in a real case of corruption of the banks and then they have created a very entertaining story. There are many ways to address the issue, and I think in the future there will be a lot of films that talks about this big problem in our country, but of all of them, this seems very good. Another reason I liked this film is because is a Spanish movie and I like the actors who act in it. I like to watch how Spanish films are getting better and they can remove the topic that says that Spanish cinema is bad or that it only can do humour films.