✔️ 2022-09-16 10:00:32 – Paris/France.
Teen comedies enjoyed particularly high popularity in 1990s Hollywood, with the distinction that some of those remembered are reimaginings of existing works. For instance, 'Clueless (off wave)' drank from 'Emma', 'Cruel intentions' It is based on "Dangerous Liaisons" and 10 reasons to hate you It was inspired by “The Taming of the Shrew”.
Now it is a Netflix production that follows this path, since this Friday, September 16, it lands on the platform 'already revenge'a film whose premise has obvious points in common with 'Strangers on the train', the novel by Patricia Highsmith immortalized on the big screen by Alfred Hitchcock in 1951. Of course, all with a very different approach that brilliantly uses various commonplaces of Hollywood teenage cinema. Too bad he loses his strength in his last straight line.
A stimulating proposal
Overall, one of the key things about 'Revancha ya' is that it's not your typical teen movie, something that's emphasized from the get-go to lay the groundwork for a family-friendly universe. , yes, but who has no problems presenting his two protagonists as characters who do not want to please the public from the first moment.
Here, it matters more that they have enough hook to quickly connect with them and fully understand what their motivations are for the particular revenge they decide to execute. Obviously, here the plan is not associated with killing other peoplebut it damages their reputation.
This has always been key in teen cinema, but in this era it has gained extra importance due to the prominence of social media and the online world. Before, a rumor could spread like wildfire and reach other places, but it almost always did so in a distorted way. Now such a hard hit can ruin your image forever and everywhere.
Many virtues with a big disadvantage
This is an idea with which the script signed by Celeste Ballard and Jennifer Kaytin Robinsonthe latter also director of 'Revancha ya', plays at all times, giving us the greatest joy in everything related to the character played by austin abram ('Euphoria'). It is then that the film is more scathing and exhibits this dose of bad milk too diluted in its last act.
However, the big claim of the function lies in its two main characters embodied by Camila Mendez (“Riverdale”) and mayan falcon ("Stranger Things"). At a pinch, it's hard to believe either in adolescence, since Mendes is already 28 compared to 24 for Hawke, but 'Revancha ya' transcends its status as a youthful pastime to offer another thing. I have no doubt that this is also what ended up deciding them both to participate in 'Revancha ya', something that they both know how to take full advantage of.
With this I do not mean that you can expect from 'Revancha ya' a proposal as unique and unrepeatable as that of "School for Young Killers", but it honors those attempts to set itself apart, and I don't just mean all of the reflections via Hawke's character voiceover. Here we really try to approach the teenage cinema of the 90s to pay homage to it - one of its two great cameos immediately brings us back to that time - and twist it at the same time.
At least that's what happens at the level of the screenplay and, to a lesser extent, the interpretation, because visually there is nothing to celebrate too much in the film. It's not that it's a flat proposition to work out, but it's that casual flirtation with dark humor perhaps it needed a riskier bet to finish elevating it as a new benchmark within this subgenre.
However, his two main weaknesses appear in full in the last minutes. On the one hand, 'Revancha ya' doesn't offer anything to justify leaving until almost two hours of footage, but it's fair to admit that it's not really noticeable until you decide that now is the time to play it safely and comfortably to spread some pointless morality. It's a bit like he suddenly decided to go against nature compared to what he had seen so far.
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'Revancha ya' had everything in mind to become a new benchmark in teenage cinema, drinking directly from this type of 90s proposals to bring it to their ground, but that does not end the play and ends up leaving a taste bittersweet. Despite this, it's worth taking a look.
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