Fears
Just by looking at the ratings here, Los miedos hits a nerve. My 3½/5 is rather generous to be honest. The one available copy I could find appeared to be cropped for TV and the subtitles, machine-translated then AId from Spanish to English, were by times gibberish. So there, my reason to give this film the benefit of the doubt.
What is beyond hope is a lot of the rest. We follow seven characters, immune to some sort of plague and doomed to find a way southbound, out of a government-controlled region, towards safety. 369
The women – a whore, a nun, a very pregnant woman with a very unconvincing bump, and an old lady – are all going through their own stage of hysteria and someone's idea of womanhood. The men – a macho, a mummy's boy, and someone's idea of a (pardon my French) retard – try to balance that out with machismo, sycophancy, and retardation respectively.
One beautiful scene, and the one reason to watch, happens in a salt desert. The nun takes charge, and shoots her god. That's when it should have been it over. No hope, no future. Amen. 342