Thesis
by Alejandro Amen?bar
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Actor: Ana Torrent, Eduardo Noriega, Fele Mart?nez, Miguel Picazo, Xabier ElorriagaDirector: Alejandro Amen?bar
Producer: Alejandro Amen?bar
Writer: Alejandro Amen?bar
Producer: Emiliano Otegui
Producer: Hans Burman
Producer: Jos? Luis Cuerda
Producer: Julio Madurga
Writer: Mateo Gil
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: Spanish (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Subtitled)
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: Academy Ratio, 1.33:1
Running Time: 125 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-03-11
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: New Yorker Video
DVD Reviews of Thesis
DVD Review: Help with subtitles in Tesis
Summary: 5 Stars
Hi
I just wondered if anyone knows how to access the subtitles (any) in Tesis. I can't seem to find them.
I've watched once and love the film but my Spanish is weak so I need the subtitles. Would appreciate any help. Thanks.
DVD Review: A restrained film about violence and gore
Summary: 5 Stars
As part of her thesis on Audiovisual Violence and the Family, university student Angela (Ana Torrent) obtains a snuff movie that she comes to believe shows the murder of a fellow student. With the help of another student, Chema (Fele Martinez), Angela attempts to solve the murder of this student.
Structurally, "Tesis" is just a murder mystery, but it is a well executed mystery. Amenebar sets up a number of plausible suspects early in the piece and then spends the rest of the film shifting the suspicions of Angela, and of the audience, between these characters. Normally I find it pretty easy to guess the killer in mystery films, but in this film I found myself still guessing up until the final reveal (this was assisted by the fact that, as this is a Spanish film, I was not familiar with any of the actors in it, so couldn't go for the standard solution that the killer is the biggest name actor in the film after the detective).
Given that this was Amenabar's first feature, it is not surprising that it contains some flaws: the central message of this film is hammered home in a pretty heavy-handed way, and some elements of the film are pretty far-fetched (yes, of course a university would have a snuff film in their video collection. Don't they all?). However, overall, the quality of this film is so high that it is easy to overlook these flaws.
Just as "Boogie Nights" was a movie about pornography, that wasn't actually pornographic, "Tesis" is a movie about cinematic violence that shows very little blood and gore. In both cases, it is the restraint exercised on the part of the directors, P.T. Anderson and Alejandro Amenabar, respectively, that make these films great and elevate these directors to the highest level of their craft.
DVD Review: Scary scary scary
Summary: 4 Stars
Very few movies have actually given me nightmares (Event Horizon (Two-Disc Special Collector's Edition), Nosferatu (The Ultimate Two-Disc Edition)) or made me scared to look in the closet (The Exorcism of Emily Rose - Unrated (Special Edition), The Grudge) or truly scared me (Nosferatu (The Ultimate Two-Disc Edition), Event Horizon (Two-Disc Special Collector's Edition) and The Exorcism of Emily Rose - Unrated (Special Edition)). This one has done all three.
This movie is about a film student writing her thesis on violence in the media. Tagging along another film fanatic, they stumble upon a snuff film (look it up) in the black market. Is it real, is it fake? Who make it? These are the questions they keep asking themselves over and over. And when they get the answers, is it too late?
Full of suspense, great twists and a really good plot, this film is truly "one of those" films that will make you think about what you see and the dangers "out there". Or at least that is what I thought when, at 16, I watched this movie. Forget 8MM (Nicholas Cage) and anything like that, this film is so much better, also a lot more violent and shocking.
DVD Review: Tesis, me gusta!
Summary: 4 Stars
En Tesis, una pelicula de horror y accion, Amen?bar obtuvo un nivel de peligroso que fue muy real para la persona que mir?. Tambien, fue impresivo que Amen?bar creio la composici?n de musica que fue muy importante en la creaci?n de este nivel. Pens? que la pelicula empez? un poco lento, pero al final, la estructura de que fue posible para las car?cteres esta completamente cambiado, y este experiencia es importante para la audiencia. En general, Tesis fue como un misteria de asasino, pero la parte de la victima repongo la parte de la detective. Al final de la pelicula, fue obvioso que Amen?bar estuv? enamorado con los detalles que crearon la experiencia para todos las personas. En general, me guste Tesis, que es raro porque es de una g?nero que usualmente no me gusto.
- Tony (on Luke's account)
DVD Review: Si te gusta sangre . . .
Summary: 5 Stars
En la pel?cula Tesis, el director Amanabar cuenta un cuento de suspenso que est? hecho mejor por mucha sangre y violencia. El personaje principal, ?ngela, quiere ser cinemat?grafa y est? en colegio de pel?cula. Ella est? acabando su tesis sobre pel?culas violentas, pel?culas prohibidas, y la raz?n porque las personas les gustan este tipo de pel?culas. El profesor de ?ngela se muere y ella descubre un grupo de personas que hacen pel?culas de "snuff." Chema tiene obsesi?n con pel?culas violentas. Todo el tiempo nadie sabe si ?l es bueno o malo, pero al final ?l es un buen amigo y h?roe. Antes en la historia conocemos a Bosco, un hombre que usa las mujeres y tiene una c?mara igual a la que usaron en la pel?cula "snuff." Descubrimos al final de la pel?cula que Bosco es el asesino verdadero y que tuvo ayuda de un professor del colegio.
La pel?cula se trata sobre el inter?s que los humanos tenemos con la violencia y aunque decimos que la violencia es mala, nos gusta. Las personas les gusta la sangre como entretenimiento. ?sta es la raz?n porque pel?culas como "Grindhouse" son tan populares.
Description of Thesis
Spanish director Alejandro Amen?bar grabbed the attention of American audiences with his dreamy thriller Open Your Eyes, but he earlier sent shock waves throughout Spain in 1996 with this disturbing debut. Thesis is a quietly creepy psychological thriller about a young college student, ?ngela (Ana Torrent) investigating the social fascination with sensational violence for her thesis project. In her search for violent video footage, she stumbles onto what may be a real live snuff film, a videotape that her professor was watching before his untimely death. With the help of a geeky gore junkie she uncovers a conspiracy that may include her handsome but sinister new boyfriend, her thesis advisor, and even her weirdo partner. When she uncovers one too many secrets lying in the catacombs of the university basement, she realizes that she may be the next victim. It goes on perhaps too long, and Amen?bar's pointed observations on the lure of violence and the dark side of human nature are lost as the spiraling mystery spins into a first-person nightmare, but his skill at weaving a paranoid world where evil may lurk behind every friendly face is undeniable. Thesis is reminiscent of Brian De Palma's early thrillers: dark, stylish, subdued, and bubbling with the characters' guilty (and ultimately dangerous) fascination with the transgressive. --Sean AxmakerGeneral DVDs
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