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Good dialogues and well developed plot and characters in a movie shot in a Spain that had just come out of Franco's National Catholic (Clerical fascism) dictatorship and censorship and was desperate to breath and show freedom.

I was doubtful about seeing the movie due to the low rating, then I read some reviews and I saw a sharp split between haters and lovers of this movie, so I went for it. The movie is unbelievable, honest and truthful. It's a tragedy, I supposed people, mainly Kit Harington fans, were expecting to see Kit Harington in an unsubstantial movie, a happy story, a fairytale, with minor hitches and happy ending.

This movie should had won many more prizes, even the Oscar and certainly should be rated highly, beyond 8.

It happened recently to me with another movie, The D train, aka Bad Bromance, an extraordinary movie rated here just 5. , I suspect it was a similar case, people were relying in the main actor to be in a different kind of movie and they just could not appreciate its quality.

So summarizing, we have stupid people rating very low a movie because they expected another type of story to be played by the actor they are fan of and they were disappointed, furthermore their very basic cultural formation and taste incapacitate them to understand any movie that is not plain and simple and dumb.

I was very close to overlook this movie because of the low rating, but then I read some reviews, and I realized there was something going on, some people liked it much, others felt disappointed. I understood that most people rating it as a bad movie was due to the fact that they expected a comedy, and most people rating it as good liked it because they understood the drama, tragic in the movie, which is the main theme.

I think there are two problems here, first if you see a movie tagged as comedy and drama, what do you think it is? well, you should think is both, and you don't know which part plays a bigger role.

Second issue is that IMDB movie genre tagging system is quite short, you can not tag a movie as a comedy that will show up in comedy list if it is no just or only a comedy.

This movie is a TRAGICOMEDY, and that label does not even exist in IMDB, we have that genre since the ancient Greek times, it is certainly not the most common genre nowadays but it has always been there and we have it there in all cultural works, so it should be in IMDB. If not I should advise IMDB to tag this move only as a drama.

I Loved this move because it is true and realistic, it tells you something that happens and has happened to millions of people though the ages, and that everyone address in different manners, some more intelligent and calm, some more stupid and catastrophic, but causes you an enormous pain.