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Tesis
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Tesis ("Thesis") is a 1996 Spanish thriller film.It tells the story of Ã�ngela, a film student working on her college thesis about violence in movies. When her tutor dies watching a Snuff Film in a secret room of the university's library, Ã�ngela hides the film and enlists the help of Chema, a strange boy in her class with an interest in gore. The appearance of another, enigmatic student named Bosco and the entry of her new tutor will further complicate things, as Ã�ngela tries to uncover the author of the mysterious video.Tesis was director Alejandro Amenábar's first movie, made while he was himself in college, and was written by Amenabar and Mateo Gil. The movie won seven Goya Awards in 1996, including the award for Best Film, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Director. It stars Ana Torrent as Ã�ngela, Fele MartÃnez as Chema, and Eduardo Noriega as Bosco. | |
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Annoying Younger Sibling | |
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Annoying Younger Sibling: �ngela's younger sister nonchalantly blurts the theme of her thesis to Bosco, which makes him easily deduce why �ngela was tailing him, and later goes on a date with him. | |
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Ripped from the Headlines | |
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Ripped from the Headlines: An obvious take on the 1992 disappearances and murders of the Alcasser Girls, just moved to a film school, and the Conspiracy Theory that they were abducted by snuff movie makers in particular. Similarities include the killer talking about sawing a hand and finishing with a headshot, which was said to have happened to Miriam GarcÃa (in reality, the hand's bones had been dislocated during decomposition and left accidentally at the scene), and Ã�ngela fearing for her young sister when she sees her talking to Bosco in a disco (the Girls disappeared when they were going to one). Finally, the ending has the people looking forward to Bosco's death on TV, an obvious reference to the unprecedented exposure and sensationalism of the Alcasser case in the media. | |
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Tall, Dark, and Handsome | |
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Tall, Dark, and Handsome: Noriega's Bosco. Not surprising that �ngela develops a crush on him (or that he fully uses it to his advantage). | |
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Sibling Rivalry | |
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Sibling Rivalry: Played with. �ngela fears for her sister when she sees her talking to Bosco at a disco, but can't share the reasons with her... so she kisses Bosco in front of her. | |
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The Sociopath | |
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The Sociopath: The person who filmed the Snuff Film, namely Bosco, and also Castro. | |
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Poor Communication Kills | |
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Poor Communication Kills: Chema can only spell the word "garage" when he tries to warn �ngela about Bosco. This leads �ngela to said garage, where she discovers that it is the place used to film the murders, and she is immediately taken prisoner. | |
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Villain Ball | |
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Villain Ball: The most common criticism of the movie is how stupid it is for the killer to store the snuff movies in a room college library where anyone can walk in at any moment. The whole movie would not have happened if only Castro or Bosco had kept the copies safe in their property. Bosco traps �ngela and ties her to a chair, yet misses that she has a literal knife up her sleeve, allowing her to escape. | |
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Chekhov's Gun | |
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Chekhov's Gun: The knife �ngela takes from Bosco's kitchen later saves her from him. | |
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Nightmare Fetishist | |
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Nightmare Fetishist: �ngela, who tries to look at the dead body at the station and is writing her thesis about violence in film; Chema, who has gore and violent videos and a house decorated with monster motifs; Castro and Bosco, who film snuff movies. | |
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Beard of Evil | |
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Beard of Evil: Castro has the fullest and best trimmed beard of all characters in the film. | |
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Ax-Crazy | |
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Ax-Crazy: Bosco and Castro are both this. They're sadistic and psychopatic killers who loves to tortures and then slaughter woman while filming the act. | |
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Face Death with Dignity | |
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Face Death with Dignity: Though obviously scared beforehand, Angela doesn't sob or try to bargain after she's tied to the killer's chair. | |
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Cold-Blooded Torture | |
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Cold-Blooded Torture: The killer aims to inflict as much pain as possible before killing his victims. That includes hitting them in the head with a hammer and cutting their limbs with a hacksaw, among other things. | |
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Gory Discretion Shot | |
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Gory Discretion Shot: The Snuff Film within the movie is never really shown, only a few glimpses and shots of people reacting to it. | |
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We Used to Be Friends | |
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We Used to Be Friends: �ngela discovers that Bosco and Chema knew each other beforehand and share an old photo. | |
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Police Are Useless | |
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Police Are Useless: Chema and �ngela refuse to report anything to police until the movie is over. The university's security guards are useless too, leaving without checking on �ngela's first tutor and not realizing he is dead, despite having a security camera on the projection room. | |
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Brown Note | |
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Brown Note: �ngela's first tutor dies of a heart attack while watching the film. �ngela takes it, but she's reluctant to watch at first and only listens to it. | |
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Psycho Psychologist | |
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Psycho Psychologist: Castro is the ringleader of the Snuff film business, responsible of the torture and death of 16 girls. He is also is a Psycologist, and teacher of Audiovisual Psycology. He also advises the students to become sold-offs!. Many people celebrated his death in the cinemas with cheers and joy! | |
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Serial Killer | |
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Serial Killer: The epilogue reveals that Bosco murdered 16 girls and buried them in his property. | |
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Awesomeness by Analysis | |
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Awesomeness by Analysis: Based on a single video, Chema is able to guess the kind of camera in which it was filmed. Subverted when it's revealed that he owns the same type of camera. | |
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Dating Catwoman | |
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Dating Catwoman: �ngela is attracted to Bosco, which he exploits right to the end when he tries to distract her by asking the color of his eyes, in an attempt to grab the gun out of her hands. | |
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Stalker with a Crush | |
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Stalker with a Crush: �ngela's crush on Bosco doesn't seem very healthy at the end of the movie, and Chema is also one of these, with him stalking �ngela and filming her in her home. | |
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The Hunter Becomes the Hunted | |
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The Hunter Becomes the Hunted: �ngela starts following Bosco after she sees him with the camera type used to make the snuff movies. He notices and turns back, then starts following �ngela when she tries to act like she wasn't. See Death by Irony/Karmic Death above. | |
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Betty and Veronica | |
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Betty and Veronica: Chema and Bosco for �ngela, though she presumably ends with neither. | |
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Big Bad Duumvirate | |
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Big Bad Duumvirate: Bosco and Castro are the main perpetrators of the snuff movies. The former is the masked killer who tortures and butchers the women while the latter is the one filming the scene. | |
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Death by Irony | |
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See Death by Irony/Karmic Death above. | |
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MacGuffin | |
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MacGuffin: The Snuff Film that 'kills' �ngela's teacher. | |
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Adults Are Useless | |
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Adults Are Useless: Played with. �ngela flees into a room and closes the door when she sees Bosco at home, presuming that he has broken into. Cue her mother walking in to tell her that she has been talking to her "friend" and he's been waiting for her for a while. However, �ngela never tells her mother anything bad about him, so she cannot be faulted for thinking nothing of him. | |
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Take That! | |
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Take That!: Jorge Castro is famously based in one of Amenábar's college teachers, Antonio Castro, whom Amenábar claimed made him fail his exams due to disagreements. Notably, Antonio fired back at Amenábar in an interview and revealed that the latter never bothered to attend his exams (which Amenábar retorted by claiming he would have surely failed him). | |
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Snuff Film | |
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Snuff Film: The MacGuffin of the movie. | |
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Treacherous Advisor | |
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Treacherous Advisor: Castro to �ngela. Chema is also discovered to have been hiding information from �ngela and suspected of being the killer at one point, but he genuinely wants to help her. | |
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No Social Skills | |
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No Social Skills: Chema isn't the most diplomatic person around. | |
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Evil Gloating | |
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Evil Gloating: Both Castro and Bosco go on tirades about what they want to do with �ngela after she uncovers them. Justified; as snuff filmmakers, they want to scare their victims as much as possible. | |
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Subverted Trope | |
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Subverted when it's revealed that he owns the same type of camera. | |
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Boom, Headshot! | |
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Boom, Headshot!: The killer finishes his victims with a shot in the mouth before they can die of their injuries as ends happening to the killer himself. | |
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Nice Guy | |
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Nice Guy: Chema, in contrast to the alluring bad boy Bosco. | |
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An Arm and a Leg | |
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An Arm and a Leg: The killer saws the limbs of his victims while they are alive. | |
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Hypocrite | |
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Hypocrite: �ngela is very vocal about her dislike for violence and her disgust for anyone who revels in it, yet every time there's something really violent she can't help herself but to look, and she records the screams from the Snuff Film to listen to them. The film uses this to underline that, regardless of how much society reviles violence, it is inevitably attracted to it. | |
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All Girls Want Bad Boys | |
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All Girls Want Bad Boys: �ngela is obviously attracted to Bosco from the beginning, despite being introduced to him as a possible Serial Killer of young women, and refuses to report her suspicions until she's sure he's not innocent. | |
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Red Herring | |
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Red Herring: �ngela discovers that Chema lied about not knowing Bosco beforehand, that he has the camera type used in the murders in his closet, and that he has been following and filming her while she investigated the case without her consent. He's not involved in the crimes. | |
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Asthma Peril | |
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Asthma Peril: Angela's advisor Figueora dies of an asthma attack caused by the violent horrors he saw on the snuff tape, and provides Angela with her motive to keep looking for whoever filmed it. | |
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Alone with the Psycho | |
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Alone with the Psycho/I Have You Now, My Pretty: Happens twice to �ngela. First with Castro, before Chema saves her, and then with Bosco. | |
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Accidental Murder | |
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Accidental Murder: Chema kills Castro while trying to disarm him. This convinces him more about not going to police, since he thinks they will just treat him and �ngela as murderers. | |
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Will They or Won't They? | |
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Will They or Won't They?: �ngela flip-flops during the movie between believing Bosco innocent and wanting to clear my name and believing he's the killer and wanting nothing with him because of that. | |
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