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Tesis (Thesis) [Import NTSC Region 1 and 4] Ana Torrent - No English options

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An entertaining, thought provoking and at times truly scary first film. It reminds me of early DePalma, both in it's strengths and weaknesses.

Amenabar uses violence and fear as means to explore deeper themes and psychology - in this case the way we're all drawn to violent images, even if we claim not to be. But these ideas stay pretty heady, and at times teeter on preachy or obvious. The film is full of wonderfully clever visual and sound techniques, but occasionally you become so aware of the flash and `hey, what a cool way to film a scene' that it takes you out of the movie. Also for me, the score is a little too obvious a Bernard Herrman homage.

It also goes on a little long. The first 75 minutes or so seemed downright brilliant, but when you drag a thriller out, often the creakiness of the plot shows through. In the end there are a few twists too many for credibility, and it crosses into, `c'mon, she would have gone to the cops by now' territory for the last half hour.

Yet, even once it starts to feel a bit silly, it's never dull, and the tension stays high. For all its flaws, it scared me and it got me to think, and that's always worth applauding.

The story shown in this movie is unbelievable and the suspense is extremely managed well You will never found out who the bad guy is at the end!!!!!!

So I've seen Tesis before and I loved it so I thought I'd buy the movie. So I bought this because this is the only dvd version that plays on region 1 dvd player. But guess what the surprise was? THERE IS NO SUBTITLES!!! Do not buy this version unless you actually know Spanish. This movie is great, and actually I give this movie a 5/5 but this is only for this dvd. Again, there is no subtitles for this version.

Not to give away too much of the plot. Ana Torrent stars as the girl, entering college and making a thesis on how the general public is drawn towards violent imagery. Shortly after her college enrollment....a young female student is missing and no one knows what became of her. Ana's character decides to play detective along with a co-ed friend played by Fele Martinez.
The acting is great, the screenplay, superb. She does have a suspision as to who the maker of the snuff movies is but we all do and are in doubt until the very end when Ana finds herself starring in a snuff film.