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Beatriz (Cristina Brondo) is a new psychiatrist in the clinic of Doc
Sanchez Blanch (Féodor Atkine), who uses hypnotherapy to treat his
patients. Soon enough, though, Beatriz realizes that some of the things
going on in the clinic are not quite alright, like a few too many
suicides, the last one being even a little girl (Nátalia Sanchez) ... and
what's even nmore worrying: Doc Blanch has suggested it to the girl.
Blanch though seems to take the whole affair far too calmly ...
Another patient though, Miguel (Demián Bichir), seems to know a few
things about the death of the girl, and he claims she was actually killed
... but unfortunately he also attacks Beatriz, so she doesn't really know
whether to trust him. Eventually, he claims he's a cop undercover, to
investigate the many strange deaths in the clinic - but at first Beatriz
doesn't believe him ... then though she starts losing grip on reality just
like he told her she would, plus she finds Miguel's gun and badge, just
where he told her she would ... and suddenly the whole clinic seems to
have conspired against her.
Then though, she suddenly is no longer a doctor but a patient, and the
film suggests she was never anything else, actually, she was the girlwho
killed herself, but she killed herself only in her imagination, in real
life she is the daughter of Miguel, and when she was about 11 years old,
she and her father had an incestuous affair - but then mama found out and
got into a fight with Miguel. Miguel then accidently killed her, and since
then, Beatriz had been in shock and an amnesiac and the whole story about
her being a Doctor was only made up to block reality out. Now though she
is better, and her father comes to pick her up, at least for a day ...
only when they are driving home, they have a carcrash ...
A very stylish thriller, quite creepy in atmosphere amd featuring
several good suspense scenes ... thing is, at some point the film gets too
clever for its own good and tries too much to throw in some novel
plottwists while at the same time not realizing most of them (like the
Doctor turning out to be a patient in the end, and the whole preceding
story turning out to be a dream) are pretty much genre-run-of-the-mill
and do announce themselves early on.
Still, not a bad movie, just not too good either.
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