When Evil Lurks 4K 2023

The plot begins in a rural area where an infected farmer is found. Due to the inaction of the municipality and the general indifference of the authorities to the plight of the poor, the problem is shifted onto the shoulders of the least intelligent people, and this escalates into a serious disaster.

In works of art, the best representatives of the species usually rise to defend humanity, but here the opposite scenario is taken as the idea, where the defense of humanity falls to the most stupid peasants.

A characteristic feature of such stupid people is their inability to control their emotions, their lack of planning skills, and their failure to understand the consequences of their actions.

About 15 minutes into the film, all the characters start hysterically yelling at each other, and this emotional outburst continues until the end of the film. Literally everything is annoying here, there are no positive characters to empathize with, except for the evil itself, which is ironic.

In general, the concept of a cunning and inventive supernatural evil that resorts to deception, changes its appearance, and tries in every way to confuse the protagonist, as in the first parts of The Wish, is practically a surefire formula, but as has now become clear, if you mix all this with moronic characters and bad dialogue where people don't try to explain anything to each other, even such surefire formulas can be ruined.

On the plus side, as I mentioned above, there is the concept of insidious evil, the atmosphere, Latin American cruelty, and the avoidance of taboo topics, as well as the originality of Argentine cinema.

On the downside, the characters are unsympathetic and unrelatable, the actions are illogical, and there is a general childishness, as if it were some kind of comic book.

If you look for a deeper meaning in all this, perhaps the author wanted to say that all misfortunes stem from ignorance, illiteracy, and incompetence in the local authorities, as a kind of allusion to real-life disasters?