Lovesusti The Worst Film Ever

Intcatinfo A Masterpiece!

Ava-Grace Willis Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

Ezmae Chang This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Chad Shiira She's a terrible singer, the bodyguard's niece, but it's the bodyguard's birthday, and this lamentable frog-voiced serenade is all he's got. Day in, day out, the bodyguard is invisible, a corporeal ghost who's unacknowledged by his boss if there's no breech in security. Sometimes he's hard to pick out in a crowded room. Even the camera is bored with Rueben(Julio Chavez). When the bodyguard wanders out of frame, the camera doesn't follow him. In other scenes, "La Custodian" demonstrates Rueben's lowly position within his employer's envoy through the filmmaker's meticulous compositions of assembled people, in which our protagonist doesn't occupy the center of the, excuse me, but I've got to use this term, mis-en-scene. In elevators loaded up to maximum capacity, in luncheon counters at crowded diners, even in his own bathroom while he shaves, Rueben is obscured by the animate and the inanimate. While waiting for his employer, Rueben smokes a cigarette behind a telephone pole. You can't see him. People can't see him. You see smoke, and where there's smoke, there's a fire. So on his birthday, a day when finally Rueben gets to be the center of attention, the song that's being performed in his honor takes on a particular significance. The birthday tribute validates him. It's no small exaggeration that Rueben's life depends on his niece finishing her song, down to the final missed note. But the restaurant owner instructs the waiters to shut down the karaoke machine. It's bad for business. The niece is awful. Rueben explodes. The performance was a bittersweet experience at best; a mediocre song for a mediocre life, but to add insult to injury, the food service workers deny him this tiny victory. It's the film's turning point.When Rueben visits a supply shop, he purchases a gun, but a bullet-proof vest, as well, which neutralizes our perception that he's on the offensive. Besides, the gun is a tool of the trade. Although we're not shocked, the pop of the pistol gives off a palpable jolt to the senses when the bodyguard finally turns on his employer. The man he escorts to the bathroom. The man Rueben watches eat lunch at a restaurant while he waits outside in the car. The man whose life Rueben is supposed to protect. The man who never really sees Rueben. As a final irony, in the final seconds of the Minister of Planning's life, Rueben remained invisible to his boss to the very end. Artemio(Osmar Nunez) never saw it coming. He was unconscious at the time.

nolwd Well, here again we have a variety of reactions to a movie. I found this film brilliant. Of course it was slow but that was a main point. But boring?..For me, not at all. I acknowledge that others have found it boring, but I most certainly did not. For me, it was a deep insight into our society and the shallowness of some of those in it, and into a man's mind as he is so ignored by it. No-one around him recognizes the humanity under his exterior...and certainly would not expect, understand (or care) about what lead him to implode. It is a brilliantly executed film...in my opinion. The superb acting in the film of the main actor reminds me of the acting of the Secret Policeman in the recent German film, The Lives of Others. ...So much is conveyed by few words and movement..but what emotion there is! I highly recommend both films to readers here.

kosmasp I really tried to like this movie and as IMDb shows here, some others were more successful by doing so than me. Yes this movie has good ideas and yes it is a psychological study of a bodyguard ... you could say a documentary.And by being or feeling like a documentary it dries you up inside. In other words it gets boring. Why does it get boring? Because the work of a bodyguard is boring. I don't need 20 scenes that tell me, that the life of a bodyguard sucks ... 2 or 3 would've been enough! For me this movie was a waste of time and opportunities ... they could've either created some drama, but more importantly, they could've shortened the movie a lot! Better yet, they should have!

jruvira Do you enjoy being transported to the scene? If you answer 'yes, I like to be transported to -say- Wonderland', then you should go somewhere else. This movie develops in the painful, ordinary, real world. Most people will find this movie annoying and somewhat boring. Some of us will regard it as an experience on its own. Rubén's some minister's minder, a bodyguard. His own life must leave room, be replaced by minister's. His life revolves around the minister, must follow him everywhere he goes, must wait for him while he's at work. Does nothing but waiting for him, reminding us of some kind of dog provided with some sort of self-awareness, feeling how left aside he is. His life's worth nothing. And that's where the point of the movie is. The goal is to make you experience his life, to share a piece of such empty existence. Julio Chávez (Rubén, the bodyguard) is a superb actor. I'm impressed by his ability to perform with everything except words. He doesn't need to talk to transmit feelings. And I've recently seen him on stage performing a word-based comedy, and he proved -to me- to be extremely ductile and flexible. He uses every "tool" available for his performance. You're warned. This movie deserves a 9 out of 10 for performance, 9 out of 10 in terms of psychological study. The only thing I didn't like is the final twist of the story. The rest is quite enjoyable. Julio Chávez... you're awesome!