Closed (LockedUnited States/2025). Address: David Yarovesky. Script: Michael Arlen Ross, based on 4×4, written by Mariano Cohn and Gastón Duprat. Photograph: Michael Dallatorre. Music: Tim Williams. Edición: Andrew Buckland, Peter Gvozdas. List: Bill Skarsgård, Anthony Hopkins, Ashley Cartwright, Emma Kombe, Michael Eklund, Navid Charkhi. Duración: 95 minutes. Qualification: Suitable for over 16 years. Distributor: Diamond Films. Our opinion: buena.
In 2019, the Argentine film 4×4directed by Mariano Cohn and starring Peter Lanzani, Dady Brieva and Luis Brandoni He had a warm reception. Despite its original starting point -in which a thief tried to steal a truck, being locked in it as part of the sinister plan of a man tired of insecurity -the film caught less attention than expected. At least in our country because, borders outside, several producers were interested in acquiring their rights to carry out an adaptation. Thus in the same year, 2022, it was released To cagein Brazil; and Dongalunnaru jaagrathain India. Two productions that followed the delineated in the original version with a few differences: the Brazilian played more with the suspense of what happened around the vehicle during the protagonist’s captivity days, while the Indian version solved the story on the side of redemption. Neither came to overshadow the original.
With those background, all eyes perched on the adaptation that was prepared in the United States, with the production of Sam Raimi and leading Anthony Hopkins y Bill Skarsgard (who replaced Glen Powell, first summoned for paper). And it turned out that that of the third is the defeated, because Closed Not only exceeds the preceding adaptations, but several steps are placed above the raw material that gave rise to it.
To begin with, the young thief is no longer an anonymous being, like the launch of 4×4. The first minutes of this new film are responsible for building around it a story that shows it as a little -mount thief, who suffers an internal debate between his vices and the fact of being the father of a little girl, who systematically fails. With this emotional backpack is that it enters that luxury truck with the intention of stealing it, to immediately discover that it is a deadly trap.
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The second differential in favor of the film directed by David Yarvesky is the construction of the character that Anthony Hopkins plays. In this case, his participation is much more sinister, becoming a true psychopath who is able to threaten to kill his captive’s daughter, in order to support his classist point of view about insecurity and crime. This allows the continuous talks between them through the car’s telephone system (idea that was maintained in all versions), the thugs immediately proves to be more critical than its captor, learning even to turn the situation when necessary. Finally, the truck acquires a unique prominence when, instead of staying static, it contributes in different ways to the construction of the suspense.
Among the things that failed in 4×4one of the most obvious was the difference of power between victim and victimizer, an element that remained constant and was losing strength as the story progressed. The opposite happens here, The management of situations tends to be more balanced between both characters, as they begin to immerse themselves in their own abyss. This resource has its best time during the conclusion, in which the most radical change with respect to the original script occurs: eliminating the figure of the mediating police, which had worked so well in the Argentine film thanks to the great work of Luis Brandon.
And 4×4 It was an experiment of a certain interest, Closed It is a more solid film in its bases, in its development and in its conclusion. The proof that an adaptation should not copy, but take the most interesting of the original and improve it.
