4 Aug 2016

PLAIN DISGUSTING



Child abuse in Catholic church is one of the most popular movie themes in past couple of decades, following the opening of Vatican secret files as well as the global media coverage expansion. The subject itself is deeply disturbing, often treansferring to serious nausea when confronting tha average viewer to the heartbreaking testimonies of the victims.

Argentinian „El Club” follows somewhat different path, depicting a Catholic detention for the proven child abusers in a God forsaken small port city. Former priests live in an undisturbed harmony that will change after the coming of one of the victims that begins to haunt each and everyone of them.

Dialogues between him and the priests revolve solely around his explicit and stomach twisting testimonies that are partially duplicated by the young priest that investigates the case of suicide of one the detentees.

At the end, „El Club” is a movie intended to shock and disgust you, not alert or educate you.




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