Locked – 5 points
(Locked – United States / Canada, 2025)
Address: David Yarovesky
Script: Michael Arlen Ross
Duración: 95 minutes
Interpreters: Bill Skarsgård, Anthony Hopkins y Ashley Cartwright
Premiere in Salas
Trailer:
“The time of final judgment is approaching,” Pray the legend of the advertising religious poster that Eddie sees again and again, even when he does not want, for several consecutive days. The repetition, which crushes the idea that everything that happens is a Divine punishment imposed by God, it is due to the fact that the poor boy does not have much more to do while he is caught in a luxury truck to which he entered with the aim of stealing some value object that he can resell. He did it after verifying that, strikingly, he was With the doors without locks in the middle of a parking lot. He did not make a mistake during theft: his thing, in any case, is the existential mistake of “having chosen” devoting himself to the choreo, the same that led him to sit in that authentic metal strength commanded remotely by An older man willing to play God and satisfy his thirst for revenge.
If the concept reminds of the 4×4directed in 2019 by Mariano Cohn and starring Peter Lanzani, it is because Closed es His American remake. Although it could also be some late episode of Wild storieswith which this – and the other – shares its character of perverse and misanthropic fable, to which adds a punitive imprint In accordance with the feeling of “the people of good”, the one that rises every morning to get the country forward. It is clear that Eddie (Bill Skarsgård) It is not. As if that were not enough, he failed his daughter a thousand times, and now he prepares to do so number a thousand and one getting some money as he gives rise, just before crossing with the imported vehicle. Enter very quiet, check what can be taken and even some sun glasses are proven, but whenever you want to leave, you will not be able to: the truck is hermetically closed and soundproof And the polarized glass prevents that from the outside it is known that the boy is desperate, with increasingly thirst and hunger.
Even someone calls the phone who has the truck on the board. Has the unmistakable voice of Antony Hopkins, He says to be William, who is a doctor, who stole him very much times and that the last time, at the door of his house, they killed his daughter, who as last words said “daddy, daddy.” Impossible not to empathize with that man, From whom even advanced the footage we only know his voice, and with his pain. And there lies, precisely, the problema central From a film whose reflexive capacity is exhausted as fast as its narrative concept, even when Hopkins is touched by several monologues in which the interpretive schedule of the script exposes. What begins like a Survival thriller with class B spirit (A single location, an actor, 90 minutes) Leaves a kind of Antiwoke pamphlet in which the poor are poor because they want and, if they walk around the street aim vague.
