A subject as old as the hills; not only the police are incompetent ,but they side with one of the culprits : but ,fortunately, violence is kept to the minimum ,and the first part is satisfying : one has enough time to aappreciate the camaraderie relationship between the son and the father ;both have everything to be happy :dad is a surgeon,devoted to his patients, sonny is a sportsman ,with bright prospects ;one regrets that ,along the movie,the role of the mother ( it's HER son too after all!!!and a mother suffers too!) should be so small ;it's all the more infuriating since she's played by the great Ana Wagener (you must see her in "contratempio" !); so the macho side -which in the second part becomes more obvious - was not lost on certain viewers .
On the other hand ,there are excellent scenes to be found in the first hour : the meeting between the surgeon and the owner of the nightclub holding flowers ; the latter shows false compassion and the former ,although his visitor is not responsible for the awful fate of his son ,oozing with rancor and holding back his anger ; the parcel he receives and his boy's last note .
Things deteriorate after the first hour: the screenplay becomes desultory , involving emotional blackmail , the crash on the bridge ; the unexpected twist is not implausible,and the ending not so happy :the last picture ,the son's face , is revealing :he'll probably be disfigured and crippled for life. Ain't it enough?
On the other hand ,there are excellent scenes to be found in the first hour : the meeting between the surgeon and the owner of the nightclub holding flowers ; the latter shows false compassion and the former ,although his visitor is not responsible for the awful fate of his son ,oozing with rancor and holding back his anger ; the parcel he receives and his boy's last note .
Things deteriorate after the first hour: the screenplay becomes desultory , involving emotional blackmail , the crash on the bridge ; the unexpected twist is not implausible,and the ending not so happy :the last picture ,the son's face , is revealing :he'll probably be disfigured and crippled for life. Ain't it enough?