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Marcos (Vincente Parra) works at a canned food factory, and though his
life is far from perfect, he lives a comparatively happy life, he shares a
house with his brother where everyone else is boxed away in highrise
buildings, he has a secure job, and he has a beautiful young fiancee,
Paola.
And it all starts so harmless ... one day when going home by cab, the
cabdriver wants to throw them out when Marcos and Paola get too physical
on the backseat. Marcos and the cadriver get in a fight, and the cabdriver
kicks him in the groin. Then he goes on to threaten Paola. Marcos picks up
a stone and hits him over the head, then he and Paola run off.
The next day, the newspapers report that the man has died. Paola
insists that they go to the police, as it was only self defense and not
murder, but Marcos refuses. But when she won't be dissuaded from going to
the cops, he hits her over the head as well, killing her.
That evening his brother, a truckdriver, comes back from a job, and
Marcos urges him to hide Paola's body. As the brother won't listen, Marcos
has to kill him as well.
The next day, Marcos' brother's fiancee Carmen stops by, and somehow
she sneaks off into the bedroom where Marcos keeps the corpses ... and
because she has seen the two dead bodies, Marcos has to kill her as well,
and the next day Carmen's father, who stops by to look for his daughter
and finds her dead as well.
With four corpses in his bedroom, Marcos soon figures he has to act,
meaning get rid of them and obscure their stench. So he buys bottles and
bottles of perfume, and every day takes a few bodyparts to the canned food
factory to mix them in with the beef they are using to make soup.
Eventually, Marcos makes friends with Nestor, a young rich kid who
lives in one of the neighbouring high rise buildings, and Nestor soon
becomes the only one Marcos can really talk to - even though of course he
doesn't mention the four corpses in his bedroom.
One day, at his favourite diner, he is served beef soup from his own
factory ... which only makes him throw up, since only he knows what's in
there ...
The next day, Rosie, the waitress from the diner who always had a soft
spot for him, stops by to look after him, and eventually they end up
having sex. Then though, Rosie gets a bit too nosey about the goings-on in
Marcos' bedroom, and he has to kill her too.
Nestor invites Marcos to his appartment, and shows him the perfect view
he has over Marcos' house ... and he suggests he knows everything.
Marcos immediately wants to slash his throat, but when Nestor doesn't show
the slightest sign of fear, he just can't. And ultimately he calls the
police to turn himself in ...
Despite the exploitative English language title, this is not about a cannibal,
nor is it about cannibals, it's rather an interesting character study/bitter black comedy about a
(working class) man who makes just one mistake (accidently killing the
cabdriver) that tears apart his whole life and throws him into a cycle
where he thinks he has to kill and kill again ... and for this twisted
logic alone, it would be worthwhile, but great direction and performances
make this a great film.
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