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Cinema Omnivore - Rotting in the Sun (2023) 7.4/10
27 October 2023
Warning: Spoilers
"During an excursion in a gay naked beach (unsimulated sex and genitals galore), Sebastián is almost drown to save Jordan Firstman (who also plays a version of himself), a popular USA social media influencer and comedian, who, in turn, develops a kind of limerence of him, and whose unoriginal métier Sebastián deprecates publicly. Brushing aside Jordan's invitation to develop a TV series together, then thinking better of it after some HBO executives show interest in the pitch, Sebastián contacts Jordan and the latter invites himself to stay in, under the pretense of brainstorming their project together.

That doesn't happen, Sebastián drops dead in a freaky accident witnessed by Veronica (the scene is shot and edited with imperceptible deception that evinces Silva's growing dexterity as a director), who in a panic, doesn't call the police and later tries to conceal the body. After Jordan arrives and convinces that he is ghosted by Sebastián, the plot sets Jordan against a suspect Veronica, with a translation app as their communication mediator, in the affair of Sebastián's weird disappearance. Mateo (Riestra), Sebastián's best friend and landlord, Veronica's employer, believes Sebastián has actually carried out his suicide plan, has his own design on erasing some implicating messages on Sebastián's phone. Since audience is in the know of the accident, it is comical to watch characters tied up in a knot and realize the differences of one's departure weighing on other lives, Jordan even questions his own self-worth."

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