Lock Out
Antoni Padrós / Spain / 1973 / 127 min
Synopsis
Spanish with French Subtitles
Enclosed in a separate world, outside of society, in futility because there is no real opposition, these characters, politically and sexually dissatisfied, represent several years of Spanish history. Without a real political culture to qualify them as ghosts roaming between the dogmatic and the anarchic, the desperate search for freedom remains. Integration, the party – it means death, as opposed to an inability to depart from the seductions that condition oneself. Perhaps, one can only confront them with reality (Paco urinating on the highway amid the crushing silence of dawn gray laughs). In the end, the image of children is violent and the idea of anarchy that any human being needs to have the feeling of freedom. The images we discover confront the reality, at times grotesque, at times expressionistic. Some outbreaks of tones that help create distance between image and content, isolate the characters of cruelty, in a broken world, left to try to interpret a role without much conviction, and all dressed in sub-product, intentional. Finally, it is a meditation on marginality and its consequences.