"Celda 211"

I liked Daniel Monzon's work. I liked the look-like Philip K. Dick work "The Warrior's Heart". "Celda 211" its a great piece of work.

But, like almost all spanish cinema: What fuck about the script? Yeah, this isn't bad but it have many whys?

Why Malamadre, the worst convict, are so Buenamadre? Why decided to be so good with the new prisioner? Why chaos reign in Spain because 3 ETA convicts are taken like hostages by the others convicts? and so on and on...

And most important: why exist a tradition in the artistic representations in Spain that in case of this always the bad guys are the cops? Since Eloy de la Iglesia (and more far far away in time) the spanish artist dignified the bad guys, the thiefs, the outsiders -in the bad way- and point to the autorities how the mother of all the problems. Yeah, the thiefs are thiefs but the cops are worse.

All right, there are bad cops, and very bad politicians, and corrupt judges, and an unfair justice system and become worst people in jail. But not always. Not on black and white. Because of this is stupid that Malamadre be better than the whole system.

Why is he so bad? Because of his voice and his acts don't fit. He's a good person, only you have to see how he act with the main character. Malamadre knows that he is a undercover prision officer and don't do nothing. Inexplicably they conect on a strange way. This don't have any sense.

The movie are really good indeed. But in the same day i've seen "Un Prophète", maybe the best movie I've seen in years, with a similar motif. Yeah, we make better movies: "Celda 211" is a good example, but we are a long way to do "Un Prophète", where criminals are criminals.