Hard to watch but a good movie nevertheless. Not an enjoyable movie but every cinephile would be glad to watch it. Acting is great, Claudio Brook gives an acting performance for the ages, he is one of the most evil characters i have watched recently, and it's not just that, i mean it's easy to play a villain but it's difficult to play a character that he doesn't even realise how evil he is. A menacing hypocrite, breaking down the soul and the courage of his family, convincing them that everything he does, he does for their own good. Of course, Rita Macedo's character is a villain as well, letting her husband hurting her children.

Not much to say, it's heartbreaking and devastating but it's a piece of Art simultaneously. I can't rate it higher and maybe i am being unfair giving this rating, but i didn't love it, so a 7/10 is all i can give. In any case, i urge every person who love quality movies, to watch it.

Weird and depressing paranoia fest. Maybe it was the late screening session or the overload of films I had seen that day (Cinema Novo Festival Bruges with focus on Buñuel and contemporaries this year), but this film made me glad I could get out of the theatre and just ride home in the rain.

To me, this film's about a man who's totally fed up with his fellow human beings caused by paranoid schizophrenia. When he married his wife, the arrangement seemed to be that the only one who ever was to set a foot out of the house was the man. Not his wife, not his children (the eldest is 18 and hasn't been outside of the house once). The only living daylight the children (Utopía, Porvenir, Voluntad) see, is via the atrium in the centre of the old house. And the only thing that 'window on the world' seems to have to offer is, rain, rain, rain. Only few times do we get to see the sun shine, and most of the times it's in the scenes where the man goes out of the house. When he does, he mostly is about to sell the raticide his children manufacture. The rest of their time, they spend playing old games, with old toys. Or they get punished for something their father doesn't really like. Sometimes it seems he even locks them up for fun. What a father doesn't have to do, to keep his children away from that rotten world outside! This movie may be a good case study (I really saw some symptoms of the disease I mentioned above, like I can see in someone I know myself), but it was, however, annoying and boring at times. This film is a must see for anyone who likes a powerful film that has a lot to tell, but do acknowledge you're up for one hell of a depressing experience. I don't regret seeing it, but there are many films I like better.

Though recently in the Mexican movies we see basically the same kind of things like crossed stories or extremely "realistic" ones, or both, there are some things in the old ones that the new ones are forgetting: beauty. This movie is based in a true story where a man that is afraid to contaminate his family with the evils of the world (and actually he is already "contaminated", and very), decides to lock them inside their house for years, avoiding them any kind of contact with the world, even throw the windows. Not happy just with this, he makes the kids work in the family business that is making poison to kill rats. The characters are confocal created, ambiguous and confused, such as anybody is, and themes like loneliness or sexual curiosity in the kids while they are growing up is very well managed. However, even it is a sad story, it is so well treated, that it is beautiful. This is a movie that I would certainly recommend, specially because Mexican movies has not good fame.