It's a suburban movie about a suburban story of loneliness, emptiness, and lost hopes that just have gone between the every day's routines. It has a strong visual effect because it portrays very well the uncolored lives that exist in all cities. From the beginning we understand it's a movie about a city, its "ugly" and suburban side, and the lives of some common people that don't feel happy with the empty lives they have.
Angela is married but she almost doesn't see her husband because she works at day and he works at night. She feels very lonely and empty, as all her dreams were gone. Casually she saw an advertisement of "man searching woman" on a public internet post and she wrote this guy a letter with the purpose of meeting him. This guy is Francisco, he is new in the town and he's working on the building construction and living on a small hostel. The relationship between them will not be easy because they hardly speak and definitely don't express their feelings to one another
What they have are just some fortuity encounters where nothing happens
She says she wants to take it slowly
But if the movie is a portrait of the loneliness that exists in the modern and suburban lives today, it's also a representation of the forbidden desires that usually are connected to theses lives of emptiness
The movie has an excellent allegory to this: "The Arena of desires" (in the plot it is a cheap cabaret-discotheque where a Beatriz's friend works)! The spectacular visual effect and the hard music just give it a wild ambiance! Desire is everything that really matters there. Eternalize the moment, feel all your body sensations and let the sexual desires blow up your mind! It's all you have to do there!
Now about the acting
it could be much better. The movie hardly has dialogs and if it's true that sometimes a picture worth 1000 words, it's also true that this movie would be better with some more dialogs. It turns a bit boring sometimes because of that. To sum up, I will give it some extra score because of the "Arena of Desires" scenes (they are simply great!). I will give it 6 out of 10.
