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3 | ''Cell 211'' is a 2009 Spanish film directed by Daniel Monzon. The protagonist, Juan Oliver (Alberto Ammann), is a young man HappilyMarried to the beautiful Elena (Marta Etura), who is 6-months pregnant with their first child, and this is the first day in his new job. All well and right, if that job wasn't as a prison guard and there was a riot in the High Security zone led by the scary convict Malamadre (Luis Tosar) that very same day. Now alone and trapped inside [[TitleDrop Cell 211]], Juan must disguise himself and pretend to be another inmate in order to guarantee his own safety, all while trying to draw a plan to get him out of there. |
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5 | The problem is that [[GoneHorriblyRight he does it so well]], however, that soon he becomes something of a second in command to Malamadre. And everything gets worse from there. Very, very, ''very'' worse. |
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7 | Though taking place in a prison, the movie does not follow most of the tropes associated with the prison genre. It won 22 awards, including the MediaNotes/GoyaAward for Best Spanish Film. |
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10 | !! This film provides examples of: |
11 | * TheAlcatraz: The GEO team barricades the prison, preventing anyone from escaping. |
12 | %% * AntiHero: Malamadre. |
13 | * AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: Carlos Bardem ([[PoorMansSubstitute brother to most famous Javier]]) seems to be aiming for a "generic Latin American" accent more than for a Colombian one. |
14 | %% * BadCopIncompetentCop: Oh, boy. |
15 | %%* BaldOfEvil: Malamadre, depending of your pick. |
16 | * BecomingTheMask: Juan pretends to be an unrepent convict of murder ("I killed him and I would do it again") [[spoiler: and becomes so when he kills Urrutia]]. |
17 | %% * BlackAndGrayMorality: The convicts are not the worst people. Not at by a long shot. |
18 | %% * BreakTheCutie: Juan [[spoiler: and later, Elena. [[KilledOffForReal To the very worst]].]] |
19 | %%* BungledSuicide |
20 | %% * TheCartel: Apache and the other Colombians belonged to one. |
21 | %% * DespairEventHorizon: [[spoiler: Juan, when he learns that Elena is dead.]] |
22 | %% * DirtyCoward: Urrutia. |
23 | * DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Juan, his wife and their unborn child die.]] |
24 | %% * TheDragon: Tachuela, for Malamadre. Later, Juan acquires this status too. |
25 | * DrivenToSuicide: The spark of the revolt is the suicide of the previous occupier of Cell 211, "El Morao", who killed himself after the prison refused to treat him of a brain tumor. [[spoiler: Juan is driven later as well, but fails to hang himself with a belt]]. |
26 | %% * FallenHero |
27 | * FirstDayFromHell: Juan's first day as a prison guard involves an out-of-control inmate riot. |
28 | %% * FlashBack: The scenes involving Juan and Elena. |
29 | %% * FlashForward: The scenes dealing with the later investigation about the mutiny events. |
30 | * TheFilmOfTheBook: Based on a novel written by Francisco PĂ©rez Gandul. |
31 | * ImprovisedWeapon: The prisoners manage to built knives and [[ScaramangaSpecial even guns]] out of water pipes. |
32 | %% * IronicEcho: "You do what you can." |
33 | * KickTheDog: "Putavieja" has three. First he tortures an inmate in another alley to know how the riot started. [[spoiler: Then he [[MoralEventHorizon kills Juan's pregnant wife]]. And then he reveals Juan's identity to the other prisoners in order to save his sorry ass, but [[LaserGuidedKarma it doesn't work]].]] |
34 | %% * KnightTemplar: Utrilla. |
35 | * NobleDemon: Played to the extreme by Malamadre, a murderer in a high security cell, who ends being the most caring character. |
36 | * NoNameGiven: Excluding the ETA members, every convict is either unnamed or known by a nickname like Malamadre ("Badmother"), Apache or El Morao ("The Purple One"). |
37 | * OohMeAccentsSlipping: Alberto Amman's sounds properly Spaniard but his native Argentinian accent comes out in a couple of occassions when his character is specially distressed. This is justified because the character is from Argentina (as briefly seen in a dossier) but lives in Spain and eventually adquired the Spanish nationality -required to be a civil servant- so his actual speech could have evolved with the years. |
38 | * PlayingBothSides: Juan and Apache, though obviously for different reasons. |
39 | %%* ProtagonistJourneyToVillain: [[spoiler: By the end of the film.]] |
40 | %% * RabidCop: Urrutia. |
41 | %% * TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized. |
42 | %%* SlashedThroat: [[spoiler: Utrilla]] |
43 | %% * TheStoolPigeon: Apache. Also TheMole. |
44 | %% * TragicMistake: Juan wasn't even supposed to be there. He joined a day earlier, just to make a better impresion. |
45 | %% * TheUnfettered |
46 | * WesternTerrorists: Three ETA members are taken hostage by the other prisoners. |
47 | %%* WhiteShirtOfDeath: [[spoiler: After Juan kills Utrilla.]] |
48 | * WorthyOpponent [[spoiler: Malamadre shares moments of genuine comradeship and ends up giving a lot of credit to Juan when he discovers the ruse]] |
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