El Custodio

By 2006-02-14T04:00:00

The audience is forced to do so much of the work to colour in hisblank emotions that the violent denouement actually feels reductive, allowingus to place the character of Ruben in the neat cinematic pigeon-hole of themild-man-who-snapped.

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