The Silence of the Marsh

Set in City of Valencia, Valencia , east to Spain , capital of the Comunidad Autonoma . "Q¨ (Pedro Alonso) is a famous writer of big success and well respected by his enthusiasts , but in real life he's a series killer . This nasty murderer excecutes a criminal spree , one after another , he is coldly killing their victims . He's a solitary man who has a bad relation with his younger brother Nacho (Raul Prieto) . He carries out ominous murders and writing about it as a fiction , and eventually getting magnificent critics of the latest work about the murder of a cabman . Finally , he chooses a known victim called Ferrán Carretero (José Angel Egido) , an ex-counselor of the Comunidad Autonoma , ex-congressman and today a teacher of Applied Economics in the University of Valencia . Then Q kidnapping him and moving him into an old family house in the middle of City of Valencia's marsh and outside the city . Carretero's disappearance pays attention of La Puri (Carmina Barrios) , who usually does dark business with Carretero , as well as Carretero's boss Isabel (Maite Sandoval) , a known politician in the Consellería of Valencia. La Puri sends her second-in-command (Nacho Fresneda) , Falconetti (this name pays tribute to William Smith's Falconetti from Rich man , poor man) to locate Carretero, the latter is a relentless murderer who pursues Q without mercy . As the hit man named Falconetti receives the assignment to kill him but things get complicated and happenings go wrong .

This is an interesting film based on the novella of the same name by Juanjo Braulio, it packs thrills , raw energy , adult subject matter with lots of violence and awesome interpretations . Dealing with a quiet criminal , he is a writer reconverted in an author of crime novel books who becomes involved in a dark cobweb of corruption to get more money and power and spontaneously meets sleazy characters in the middle of a heinous card game . Only at the end , in the last moment of the movie , we are aware of his peculiar redemption. A decent noir/thriller film concerning a hit man and with sinister roles mingled in scandal of corruption , including drug selling , money launderer and reconstructing new buildings for neighborhood . An extremely tough movie burdened by cruel murders and seedy characters with a creepy starring who is more killer than the stories he writes . As our peculiar protagonist has a compulsion to murder what eventually he translates to his novels , but he ultimately becomes involved in a perilous mouse and the cat game where nobody is safe . Nice acting from Pedro Alonso in the main role , he's a two-fisted hit-man who proceeds grisly assassinations and along the way annihilating witnesses , but finally to be trapped unintentionally between two violent and corrupt forces . Plenty of intrigue, atmospheric music by composer Zeltia Montes , colorful cinematography and grisly killings until the surprising finale . It is a very violent movie , depressing charismatic , adequately set , but always strong , with a perfect abstraction of a climate of moral misery to game with the cold environment and appropriate scenarios well photographed by cameraman Isaac Vila . Pedro Alonso gives a good acting as a ruthlessly hit-man who begins a race against time to stop those who want to chase him , he is a cold-blooded psychopath and lonely man because he knows that his activity is really dangerous , who learns about his work and that's why there aren't witnesses . Pedro Alonso is a fine but not very known actor. He is one of the young Spanish actors that became popular for his role in Money Heist or La Casa de Papel . He's well accompanied by a good cast , such as : Carmina Barrios as a powerful gypsy drug-lord , Nacho Fresneda as his second hand and best man , José Ángel Egido as a former politician of long carrier , Àlex Monner , Raúl Prieto and brief appearance by Luis Zahera as a taxi driver.

The motion picture was professionally directed by Marc Vigil , though being slow-moving and containing some flaws and gaps . Marc is a good director who often uses to work for television , making several episodes from popular series , such as : El Ministerio del Tiempo , Malaka , Vis a Vis ,Vivir sin permiso , Nasdrovia , Aguila Roja , Gominolas , Niño Santo, Aída , 7 vidas , among others . Rating : 6/10 , passable and acceptable.