Álvaro Alarcón

Álvaro Alarcón

Favorite films

  • City of God
  • The Holdovers
  • The Shawshank Redemption
  • Trainspotting

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  • Trainspotting

    ★★★★★

  • The Cabin in the Woods

    ★★★½

  • 10 Things I Hate About You

    ★★★½

  • Mean Girls

    ★★★

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  • Trainspotting

    Trainspotting

    ★★★★★

    Self-sabotage in this film is not only an act of rebellion or excessive hedonism, but the symptom of an emptiness that is impossible to fill. Beyond the criticism of the characters deplorable attitudes, we are immersed in a desperate search for meaning, in a world where finding it becomes increasingly exhausting.

    Existence itself becomes suffocating, and in the face of the impossibility of finding answers, escape (in whatever form it takes) seems the only alternative. Yet this escape is not…

  • The Cabin in the Woods

    The Cabin in the Woods

    ★★★½

    This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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  • Buffalo '66

    Buffalo '66

    ★★★★½

    Love is all we need

    Behind every human disaster there is a chain of failures, misfortunes and blows of fate capable of breaking anyone, to the point of making him reject a society that, with the same indifference, has condemned him to oblivion.

    In this abyss of loneliness, hatred and revenge seem to be the only ways to regain control of a life that never showed compassion. But this story reminds us that even in utter hopelessness, a gesture of…

  • It's Such a Beautiful Day

    It's Such a Beautiful Day

    ★★★★★

    "Genetics is pretty messed up"

    It is difficult to accept that our memories, exploits and experiences can be forgotten long after our imminent departure or even before it by ourselves. Just like the inevitable arrival of our death, so inevitable does life feel, that even though we did not choose who to be born and grow up next to, it is a fact that you must accept, understand and sometimes be able to forgive.

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