Name: Los impactados
Genre: Drama
Released: 2024-02-29
Duration: 1 h 30 min
Rating: 5.4
Cast: Mariana Di Girólamo, Germán Palacios, Guillermo Pfening

A High-Voltage Premise, Grounded Too Soon

Certain things predispose me to like a film - such as using a fantastical premise to explore very down-to-earth concerns. Others have the opposite effect, like watching that same premise be quietly abandoned once it has served its narrative purpose.

The oft-cited comparison between Lucia Puenzo and David Cronenberg only holds at a superficial level. While both mix the organic and the psychological, the Canadian filmmaker's ideas are far more unsettling - and far better exploited. In Electrophilia, a young woman struck by lightning develops a strange attraction to electricity and joins a support group of people who have survived similar incidents.

Beyond the faint aura of oddness this setup casts over the film, don't expect much in the way of genuine "electrophilic" exploration. Had Ada been hit by a scooter or attacked by a llama, the story would land in much the same place: this is primarily about a woman whose life-changing accident forces her to reassess her interests, values, family, relationship, and connection to her own body.

Which is to say, a film I probably wouldn't have gone out of my way to watch had it not dangled its intriguing hook - particularly since Electrophilia was never positioned as "the South American film of the year".

Spanish-language cinema across Spain and Latin America is united by its engagement with history, cultural identity, and social transformation. In Spain, films often balance artistic experimentation with popular genres while reflecting on memory, politics, and family. In Latin America, cinema has been deeply tied to questions of colonial legacy, resistance, and community resilience, ranging from intimate dramas to bold political allegories.

Ana Torrent in The Spirit of the Beehive (1973)

The drama genre is a broad category that features stories portraying human experiences, emotions, conflicts, and relationships in a realistic and emotionally impactful way. Dramas delve into the complexities of human life, often exploring themes of love, loss, morality, societal issues, personal growth, with the aim to evoke an emotional response from the audience by presenting relatable and thought-provoking stories.

Mahershala Ali and Alex R. Hibbert in Moonlight (2016)

A girl wakes up from a coma six weeks after being struck by lightning.

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