Back in Alicante

11 Dec 2011

Unfortunately, all of the trains except for the early train were full so I had to return to Alicante earlier than I had intended.

However, this did mean that I had time to go over to a friend's apartment to watch a Spanish movie called Tres días (Three Days). This movie won a bunch of awards at the Malaga film festival, but it was pretty weird to us.

It's an apocalyptic movie movie in which the earth is going to be hit by a meteor in three days. There's no hope of anything or anyone stopping the end of life as we know it.

As small meteors hit the earth, chaos ensues. People are trying to flee the cities (though where they are going to go to avoid the meteor is beyond me), prisoners break out of jail, parents kill their children rather than see them suffer.

When abuela hears that prisoners are out of jail, she becomes panicked. The movie doesn't immediately reveal why, but you can tell she's worried about the safety of her grandchildren. So she makes her son Alejandro go with her to take care of the kids and protect them.

Alejandro is kind of a jerk. He doesn't really care about his nieces and nephews and would much rather drink himself into oblivion until the world ends.

However, little by little, we learn that abuela is worried that a prisoner who murdered people in their town might come back to enact his revenge. Apparently, abuela's other son (the father of the grandchildren) was the one that stopped the murderer before.

Nevertheless, when the family finds abuela dead, Alejandro has to step up and protect the family.