The film "Wild Stories", the reviews of which are in this article, was shot by Argentinean director Damian Shifron. It was released in 2015. Then he won the national cinema award of Spain "Goya" and was noted at several other major world film screenings. He got into the program of the Cannes Film Festival, represented Argentina at the Academy Award in the nomination "Best Foreign Language Film".
Creating a picture
The film "Wild Stories" received mostly positive reviews. His slogan is: "A beast sleeps in everyone. Do not wake him." He immediately attracted fans of unexpected plot twists and fascinating scripts to the screens.
The creators of the picture worked hard. Many fans around the world got the movie "Wild Stories". Reviews were written from different parts of the world, including from Russia, where the picture was in wide distribution.
The basis of this tape are six short episodes. Each of them is dedicated to the theme of revenge or violence.
"Parsnip"
The first story is called Parsnip. The film "Wild Stories" begins with it. In the reviews, viewers note how the director managed to grab their attention from the very first minutes.
The plane takes off. On board there are a music critic named Salgado and model Isabelle. During the conversation, they find out that they have a friend in common - the unfortunate musician Gabriel Pasternak. At the same time, the model broke up with him, and the critic at some competition crushed his performance to the nines. Further more unusual circumstances are clarified.
In the next row sits a teacher of this Pasternak music school. It soon turns out that all the passengers know this loser. And all of them annoyed him with something in their life. It is noteworthy that none of them bought a ticket, everyone got it for free by some chance.
The stewardess’s phrase, which admits that Pasternak works as a flight attendant on this plane, becomes decisive, and five minutes ago he entered the cockpit. The plane loses altitude and crashes.
So begins the “Wild Stories” (film, 2015). In the reviews, viewers admit that this explosive mixture of melodrama, comedy and tragedy conquers immediately.
"Rats"
The second episode takes place in a small roadside cafe. The waitress recognizes Cuenca as a new visitor to the local mafia, who took her house away from her family many years ago. She and her parents were on the street, and her father soon committed suicide.
Then Cuenca began to harass her and they had to leave the city. Now he is running for mayor. Having learned about this, the cook of the restaurant suggests poisoning Cuenca by mixing rat poison in his food. The waitress refuses.
Then the cook, a strong-willed woman with a prison past, takes control of the situation. The waitress tries to stop this and knocks over a plate of poisoned food. But the cook does not back down from his plan. She calmly stabs the guest with a knife in the back.
The strongest
The protagonist of the novel “Strongest” is the handsome capital Diego, who is driving along a deserted highway on a powerful Audi. On the way, he comes across the provincial Mario in an old truck. He tries to overtake him, but the stubborn driver does not allow him to do this.
With great difficulty, Diego bursts forward, finally showing his opponent an indecent gesture. After several kilometers, his wheel is broken. Stopping in a deserted place, he soon sees an approaching truck with an indignant driver who doesn’t forgive insults. Diego locks up in a car.
The offended truck driver breaks the windshield, urinates and defecates on the car. When he is about to leave, Diego still takes courage, presses on the gas and pushes the truck into the cliff. Having quickly fixed the wheel, he tries to leave.
Mario gets out. Now he wants revenge even more. Diego decides to finish him off. He turns around, but then his damaged wheel falls off. Both drivers fall from the slope. A fight ensues between them. One of them sets fire to a gas tank. The tow truck driver who arrives at the scene sees only an explosion. And the police find two charred corpses.
Little bomb
At the beginning of the short story Little Bomb, an explosive engineer Simon, leaving a candy store for her daughter, discovers that his car was evacuated. He is trying to prove that he did not park in the wrong place, since the markings were completely erased where he left his car. But no one listens to him.
Having lost a lot of time in bureaucratic offices, Simon is late for her daughter's birthday. Because of this, family relationships are greatly deteriorating. When his car is evacuated again, his nerves simply can not stand it. He arranges a rout in the evacuation company’s office. He goes out of prison on bail, but his life now flies downhill.
The wife files for divorce and demands child support, he is dismissed from work as an unreliable employee. Out of despair, he decides to take revenge. He puts the bomb in the trunk of a Chevrolet and leaves the car in the wrong place. During the evacuation, it explodes. True, there are no casualties.
Simon is in prison. He manages to draw public attention to the corruption system, which is based on evacuations and fines. The wife and daughter, realizing how important it was that Simon did, come to his birthday in prison.
"Sentence"
In this story, Santiago, a spokesman for the “golden youth” generation, returns drunk from the bar in the morning in the car of his father, a local senior official. He knocks down a pregnant woman and hides from the scene.
Later, the victim dies in the ambulance. Her husband promises to find and punish the killer. The father, learning that this is the work of his son, seeks to enclose him from prison and fair punishment. Together with a family lawyer, they come up with an insidious plan. They persuade the gardener to take the blame for half a million dollars. Moreover, the lawyer promises that he will leave prison in a year.
The investigator who comes to their house does not believe in the guilt of the gardener. The lawyer meets with him face to face and tells the official that he needs one million dollars to close his eyes to inconsistencies in this case. Moreover, the defender asks for another half a million dollars.
It soon turns out that the lawyer tricked his client by wanting to take back most of the money. The official is ready to cancel all transactions and send his son to jail. At this time, the police take the arrested gardener out of the house. Through the crowd of journalists the husband of the deceased woman breaks through and hits him on the head with a hammer.
"Until the death tear us apart"
The final novel of this film tells about the wedding of Romina. The girl is happy, but during the celebration she finds out that her fiancé cheated on her with her colleague, who was among the invited guests. An angry wife decides to take revenge right at the gala evening.
Many viewers fell in love with Wild Stories. Similar films are almost always successful with the audience. In addition, more recently, a picture came out with an almost identical name.
"Wild story"
This is the black comedy of the Spaniard Alex de la Iglesia "Wild History". In reviews of the film, many praised his evil irony in the modern world around us.
There are several main characters in the film. This is a hipster, blonde, homeless and businessman. All of them are locked in a cafe due to the fact that a sniper begins to shoot passers-by on the street. Going beyond the threshold is deadly. But inside the institution serious passions flare up. The actors of the film "Wild History" have clearly shown how people behave in such a critical situation.
The situation is aggravated when there is an assumption that the culprit of this threat is one of them.
A reference to the classics
Analyzing the tape “Wild Story” (film, 2017), many critics in the reviews note that he refers us to the classic picture of Spaniard Luis Bunuel “The Fighter Angel”. In it, the heroes also find themselves locked in a confined space, in a country house, and have no way to get out. The "unknown force" holds them there.
With success in the world box office was "Wild History" (film, 2017). For the actors, the picture brought popularity and success.
One of the main roles was played by Mario Casas, known for his work in the melodrama Antonio Banderas "Summer Rain" and the drama Fernando Gonzalez Molina's "Three Meters Above Sky". He got the role of Nacho.
The image of Elena on the screen was embodied by actress Blanca Suarez, who before that, basically, played in TV shows. For example, in the mystical drama "The Black Lagoon", the post-apocalyptic fiction "The Ark". In the role of Trini appeared actress Carmen Machi, who became famous after the comedy Emilio Martinez-Lazaro "Eight Basque Surnames." For this work, she received the Goya Award in the nomination for Best Supporting Role. Sergio played Alejandro Avada.