Synopsis
A dead woman lying on a beautiful field full of sun flowers. As shown at the beginning, a remote and isolated village in the movie is no less cruel than a city, even though it looks beautiful and peaceful. Angosto, the first feature by CABEZUDO, can be entitled as country film noir revealing the violence, corruption and irregularities spurting from the village. Even though the movie starts with a rape case and similar criminal cases continuously occur in the story, the process of catching the criminal is not the focus of the movie. Rather than, by using the criminal cases as the starting point of the story, the movie displays the brilliance of narrative technique. Esteban is a speleologist coming to the mountainous area to explore a newly found cave. He flashes with anger when finding his wife, traveling with him, assaulted by a man. Deeply shocked by the attack, his wife spots another passerby as the culprit. And then the movie shows the gushing of violence and immoral "dealings" related with the violence. The creativity of the movie delivering a chilling suspense can be found in the way of forming narrative. The movie is composed of six chapters, and each chapter has a different narrator: a vacuum cleaner salesman who reveals his anger all of a sudden; Gavy, who is attacked by the salesman, and her husband Esteban; Cecilio, ‘a man on the road’ who encounters Esteban's attack; Thomas, a policeman who offers a dealing to the Estebans; Amos, who witnesses Cecilio's death; Amadeo, Thomas's father in law and senior official. Each of the narrators serves as a lens for the story. While changing the point of the sight, the movie smoothly connects the nodes among the six chapters and in doing so, the density of the story becomes deepened. In this way, the movie revealing the violence of the world not by the plain depiction but by the delicate technique heralds the debut of another talented new director.(HONG Sung Nam)