Finished the dolls. . . Four novels about blonde girls and their sleazy dolls - in the 1970s, in our days and in the future.
A short film is almost a fractal! The third film from the selection of “scary” shorts at the 46th Moscow Film Festival pleased with the genre diversity – here and a retro story about obsession, and a story of insanity, and a sci-fi thriller in the spirit of “Carrie” and “Inflammable look” (heroes directly quote the names of Carrie and Charlie from these King stories) and old-good zombies. At the same time, the Spaniards are still entertainers, and they do not bypass the sharp corners - the girls on the screen fight, swear, kill, die - in general, do everything the same as adults. No restrictions!
What I lacked in the film was some general idea (besides the angelic blondeness of the girls). In the synopsis, a doll was declared that unites them all, and in a number of episodes this doll can really be seen, but it does not affect the plot at all and it can easily not be shown.
From the “short films inside the short film” I will highlight the second – about sisters whose father is either going crazy or possessed by the devil. For all its simplicity, the story has an elegant and terrible ending, after which there is a feeling of confusion - what actually happened.
The rest of the stories are more or less equivalent and do not stand out against the background of the declared genre – we have already seen so many times in the movies and obsessed girls, and “murderers” in a secret military laboratory, and zombie girls that it has become a common place.
So if the film had some kind of end-to-end idea – albeit with a doll, but clearly outlined – the stories would look better.