Espinas (2007) [N/A]
Featuring:
Mariannela Cataño, Guillermo Gil, Esteban Soberanes
Written by:
Guillermo González Montes
Guillermo González
Augusto Mendoza
Directed by:
Julio Cesar Estrada
Release Date:
August 31, 2007
Original Title:
Espinas
Genres:
Horror
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 90
Magdalena is fifteen, but unlike many girls her age, her life is apathetic and somber, due to the abuse she receives from her father, a hopeless alcoholic, and her strange passion for Carlos, a neighborhood thug. A series of complex characters parade through Magdalena's life looking for themselves, such as Gabriel, the homosexual brother, and Huker, a violent judicial policeman who has an important secret. A portrait of the emotional depths of the strange and terrible Mexico City.
On her 15th birthday, Magdalena - a traumatized girl who has never cried - must make a decision: stay with her beating and alcoholic father Luis, or run away with Carlos, a small time crook who has sexually abused her. Magdalena's story interweaves with Gabriel's story, her older brother, a shy, homosexual adolescent, who works as prostitute in the streets while maintaining a bizarre love relationship with Huker, a police officer following the tracks of Carlos... "Thorns" is a story about violence, drug addiction, prostitution, alcoholism and family disintegration; every day problems of a megalopolis like Mexico City...
