Another Silence Movie Review

Another Silence

                                                 

Another Silence is a thriller movie released in 2011. This movie is written by Santiago Amigorena and Nicolás Buenaventura and directed by Santiago Amigorena. The main characters of Another Silence are played by Marie-Josée Croze, Ignacio Rogers, Tony Nardi and Benz Antoine.

Another Silence tells the story of a mother who seeks vengeance against the murder of her husband and son. Her journey leads her to another country where she finally comes face to face with the murderers.

Marie-Josée Croze in a scene of Another Silence

Plot:

At the beginning of Another Silence we see a female cop, named Mary, leading her peaceful life with her husband and her only son. Everything around them is going fine, until one day, when her husband and son head out to see a game, another car stops them on the way and someone from that car shoots them. Both of the father and the son gets brutally murdered there.

At first, the lady breaks down completely. She stops answering the phone and plays with her son's toys for hours. One day, her boss takes her to his office and shows him the videotape of the two cars. She asks her boss to give her the case to solve, but he refuses.

In the meantime, we see two Spanish-speaking boys, who have done some kind of job successfully and have got paid a handsome amount. After returning home, one of them finds that his wife has been sick and has gone to her village. He then starts for that village with his car.

Mary starts inquiring about the murders. She meets a gang leader, with whom, she seems to have some kind of history. The gang leader feels sympathy for her, but can only tell the name of the driver of the killer's car. He tells Mary that he doesn't know anything about the killer, as it was not a job by that gang family. Mary then finds the driver and realizing his innocence, doesn't kill him. She shoots him in his legs, but before that, learns the name of the killer of her husband and son. Meanwhile, the Spanish-speaking boy in another place has already reached the village to his wife and son.

Mary looks for the name of the killer in her police database and finds his location. She then heads for Argentina (shown later on). She finds the address of the killer and goes there. At that place, she finds the killer's friend, the another Spanish-speaking man. From him, he takes the location of the killer (the name of the village) and again heads there.

On that village, before Mary reaches there, the boy's (the killer's) bosses come and take him out of there. After going there, Mary finds the killer's wife and son. They cannot tell Mary much about the killer's whereabouts, but after getting some information, Mary goes to the border. There she bribes a policeman to learn information about the killer. She learns that, he is coming back through this border on the next day. In the meantime, we see the journey of the killer with his bosses.

Mary rents a hotel and gets a little friendly with the grand-daughter of the owner of that hotel. At night, one man, who gave a file to Mary earlier, enters her room and tries to kill her. But she gets saved. That man also tells Mary that why they have killed her family.

She waits for the killer on the next day at the border and when the killer enters the border in a truck with his bosses, Mary follows them by hijacking a car. When the killers stop at a cabin, then Mary leaves the car and finally, comes face to face with the killer of her family.

My reviews about Another Silence:

First of all, I'll mark Another Silence as a below average thriller movie.

The plot is good and so is the ending. But the problem with the plot of Another Silence is, it is very simple. Actually, it will seem too simple to keep you attracted. A twist of plot could make it much more interesting. Although, Another Silence is about the desire of revenge of the main character, but this movie felt more about her journey than about her revenge.

Acting of all the main characters in Another Silence were good. Marie-Josée Croze looked stunningly beautiful but simple in the whole movie. The makeups were also good, where the dialog were very simple.

This movie clearly lacked some action scenes. Even with a plot as plain as this, Another Silence could do better with some more action scenes. Here, several times, the director has shown different part of the journey of the main character in details, which seemed unnecessary and boring. Actually, in Another Silence, there is not much of excitements. From a thriller movie, the lack of excitements is a big turn off for viewers like us.

What seemed unnatural in Another Silence is, at the end, when Mary saw the killer in a truck, she recognized him instantly, although she has not seen his face or photo ago.

There is no nude scene in the whole movie, and overall, you can watch Another Silence with kids.

So, finally, although Another Silence has some good elements, overall it did not seem as a good movie only for the missing elements of excitement. I will not recommend to watch Another Silence to anyone.

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