*Plot and ending analyzed*
Passionate Motive
Móvil pasional (1993)
First of all, the audio is horrible and very difficult to hear, add to that, a Venezuelan 'slang' that is spoken very fast. Still, if you speak Spanish at a basic level, you can understand most of it.
The film looks like something from the 80's, but it was 1993. It's odd in some ways, with drab colorless shots of sleazy people and the sleazy city at night.
At the start of Movil pasional, some man is knifed by a man wearing a stocking on his head. He goes into the house and up the stairs and finds a woman on the bed, whom he touches and later hits. Next, the interrogation room of a police precinct where some cop is interrogating a couple. I guess the place is some Venezuelan city, but the Spanish sounds a lot like Cuban Spanish. The cop later picks up some street walker and takes her to his apartment where he has a cat. The cop smokes in every scene and he's a real slimy creep, at least that's what I thought. All the cops in this film are thoroughly unlikeable, corrupt and real sleazy.
The street walker is in love with the cop, but he doesn't respond. He uses her for sex and as an informant. He's on the case of the man who was knifed by the man who was wearing a stocking on his head. Some insurance agent talks to the cop, telling him that he suspects the wife of the man who was knifed. The cop follows leads, smoking a lot and finds that the wife of the man who was knifed had some lover who was in prison.
The cop tries to break the wife, but her lover who was in prison covers for her. The street walker also has an affair with the lover who was in prison. The cop doesn't care much, but wants to crack the murder case. It turns out the lover of the wife did kill her husband, because he was jealous of him. Yet, he never implicates the wife. The street walker comments that that is "true love". The film ended quite abruptly with the street walker walking in the street.
My DVD was censored, so there is no nudity or expletives in any of the film.
I kept thinking they would end it with a another tragedy, but I was wrong. Nonetheless, it's a somewhat interesting film. Don't be fooled, it isn't profound, very good or even grand, but just a snapshot of low budget Latin American filmmaking.
It seems to be a remake of Locura pasional (1956) with Silvia Pinal and Carlos Lopez Moctezuma.
If you like low budget foreign films that concentrate on slow characterization, then you might like this one.
In Spanish with no subtitles.
Passionate Motive
Móvil pasional (1993)
First of all, the audio is horrible and very difficult to hear, add to that, a Venezuelan 'slang' that is spoken very fast. Still, if you speak Spanish at a basic level, you can understand most of it.
The film looks like something from the 80's, but it was 1993. It's odd in some ways, with drab colorless shots of sleazy people and the sleazy city at night.
At the start of Movil pasional, some man is knifed by a man wearing a stocking on his head. He goes into the house and up the stairs and finds a woman on the bed, whom he touches and later hits. Next, the interrogation room of a police precinct where some cop is interrogating a couple. I guess the place is some Venezuelan city, but the Spanish sounds a lot like Cuban Spanish. The cop later picks up some street walker and takes her to his apartment where he has a cat. The cop smokes in every scene and he's a real slimy creep, at least that's what I thought. All the cops in this film are thoroughly unlikeable, corrupt and real sleazy.
The street walker is in love with the cop, but he doesn't respond. He uses her for sex and as an informant. He's on the case of the man who was knifed by the man who was wearing a stocking on his head. Some insurance agent talks to the cop, telling him that he suspects the wife of the man who was knifed. The cop follows leads, smoking a lot and finds that the wife of the man who was knifed had some lover who was in prison.
The cop tries to break the wife, but her lover who was in prison covers for her. The street walker also has an affair with the lover who was in prison. The cop doesn't care much, but wants to crack the murder case. It turns out the lover of the wife did kill her husband, because he was jealous of him. Yet, he never implicates the wife. The street walker comments that that is "true love". The film ended quite abruptly with the street walker walking in the street.
My DVD was censored, so there is no nudity or expletives in any of the film.
I kept thinking they would end it with a another tragedy, but I was wrong. Nonetheless, it's a somewhat interesting film. Don't be fooled, it isn't profound, very good or even grand, but just a snapshot of low budget Latin American filmmaking.
It seems to be a remake of Locura pasional (1956) with Silvia Pinal and Carlos Lopez Moctezuma.
If you like low budget foreign films that concentrate on slow characterization, then you might like this one.
In Spanish with no subtitles.
