The World is Ours
- kinetic
- cold
Neutral, breathless, measured comedy / survival, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
How every film is hand-scored →El Culebra and El Cabesa, a pair of criminals, decide to take a bank at gunpoint, dressed as penitents. The plan is simple: Get in, get the money, take off all the loot quickly and catch the first flight to Brazil. But things get complicated when a man on his fifties, victim of the economic crisis goes into the bank loaded with explosives, threatening suicide. What would be the easiest shot in history, becomes a nightmare carnival.
Our read · The World is Ours (2012) reads as a neutral, breathless, inventive comedy · survival · heist entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
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The shape of The World is Ours
What watching it is actually like.
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