Thesis

"Thesis" is a Spanish thriller film about grad student Angela, who stumbles upon a real snuff video while doing a thesis on audiovisual violence, she later find out that the victim is a missing student in her faculty, which drives her to crave for more answers.

"Thesis" is Alejandro Amenábar's feature debut, the film has snatched seven 1996 Goya Awards, which leaves me in a puzzled state, because unfortunately, I fail to understand how that's even possible, and what exactly did the general consensus see that I somehow missed ?

I quite honestly found the film equivalent to garbage, there are no characters, everyone is just a moving corpse, and let me tell you that these living objects make some ridiculous amount of retarded actions and decisions. How ironic that our main "character" Angela, is a university student, who's doing a thesis on an intriguing subject, yet somehow manages to be a complete idiot in every sense of the word.

Luckily, I didn't end up hating the movie after all, it's actually a comedy gold sometimes, just witnessing Ana Torrent's (Angela) acting is enough to keep anyone entertained, she looks like a deer in headlights in every single scene, not to mention her extremely awkward and bizarre behaviour that generates some hilarious sequences.

The writing is awful, it's so cheesy at times, but it's also plain and unusually strange at other times, I really want to know if the writers were on some sort of stupidity pills while doing their job ? Seriously ! There are a lot of scenes where characters behave as if they're from out of this world, its fairly similar to "The Room" in that aspect.

There's literally one scene in the entire film that is actually well done, which is the opening sequence, other than that, there is absolutely nothing to see in this 125 minutes long pile of poop, even if you're looking for an unintentionally funny movie, you have other immensely better options to choose from.

These are the times where I wish there was a rating of DUMB/10, it would perfectly describe my feelings towards this feature, so if you're interested in seeing "Thesis", don't... and just take a nap instead.