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A wonderfully acted film with plenty of action and a gripping story. Plata Quemada is the story of the 2 principal bank robbers, Nene and Angel, one from Argentina, the other from Spain. They are lovers. But this is not a "gay film" in that the gayness is not the focus of the story. But it is central to understanding the emotional impact that this film carries. Think "Bonnie and Clyde" but Bonnie is a beautiful sexy muscular latin man.

Based on true events that took place in Argentina and Uruguay in 1965, it is about a bank robbery gone wrong. But it is also about the 4 main characters and how they relate to each other.

Unlike american films where american actors (gay and straight) seem so wooden and artificial when they play gay characters (i.e. Interview with a vampire Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt) due to their own fear of seeming "too genuinely gay", Spain has a wonderful history of straight actors who make you believe the passion and love between two men. Law of Desire with the very young Antonio Banderas as un chico obsessed with his boyfriend was one. This is another.

Leonardo Sbraglia and one of Spain's major hunks, (el chulo) Eduardo Noriega, draw you into the tortured lives of 2 men who are weird, unbalanced and.... love each other without limits. The end of the movie had me longing for a love that was as strong as what these men show on screen.

If you like a great story with great emotional content, lots of action, beautiful beautiful men both latin (Pablo Echarri y Leonardo Sbraglia) and spanish (Noriega) and a message that will get to you straight gay or whatever, get this movie.

Burnt Lives
Argentina, 1965. A heist goes wrong. Three men are on the run looking for a place to hide. They find it in Montevideo, they need false passports to leave so they wait day after day until the police come and everything goes apocalyptic.

The bare facts.

But the real movie is about the two killers in the gang, El Nene and Angel, called Los Mellizos (the twins). They are not related. They are lovers: two fugitives sharing loneliness and pain, living their lives on the edge. It's the story of a doomed relationship, confined into four rooms where intense passion and violence push the extremes.

In their hostile world of drugs, cheap sex, prejudice and revenge they have to deal with a feeling born from repression and the fear of naming it. There is, above all, their desperate search for love and loyalty that makes them some kind of tragic heroes in the end.

Seldom has cinema faced the subject of masculine desire and affection in such a natural, honest and even tender way. For sure a different sight of an action movie and a remarkable piece of acting.

Worth seeing.

Burnt Money
The tempo of the movie reminds me of that of Monsters Ball. I only saw this movie because of the director, but i am glad i did. Don't expecte to see hardcore porn in this film. There are only a few scences that barley qualifies a partial nudity, scense were do tastfully. The film is about some important power figures in Argentina who plot a risky heist and higher three men to do it. They end up killing 3 people to gain 7 million dollars, but in the process one gets shot, leaving a trail of evidence. Thus they are forced to flee to Uraguay, where they are on lock down to aviod anyone reconizing them. They hide out till thing cool down in Argentina. Mean while the main characters "Angel" and "Nene" are having problems. One is confused about his sexual identity, and his mental state of mind, while the other becomes frustrated. As a result he seeks comfort in a women he meets in Uraguay. In the end things fall apart, thier wear abouts are discoved, and make a run for it. conflicts arrise, identities and friendships are questioned, and tension rises. The ending is a bit much, but it works, and will leave you in awe.