[Language: Spanish (Colombian)]
There were times when I needed to remind myself to breathe as Monos reached its climax. Long gone was a film about looking after a cow. We had descended into absolute chaos. This was what I wanted Joker to be like. The film took you out of the cinema onto a very surreal journey from which there may well be no return as Monos sticks its claws in your brain.
“The Monos” are a group of child guerrillas who work for “The Organisation”. They sit on a mountain guarding an American prisoner of war. You don’t know when or where this is. Neither do you know who is good and who is evil. But that just adds to the mystery and starts every character on a blank canvas. As the film goes on, the isolation up in the mountains and in the middle of the jungle starts to have an effect on this group as they transition from hallucinogenic freedom to Lord of the Flies. The whole plot is difficult to put forward in words. Monos is more of an experience than a story. This is in a similar way to 2001: A Space Odyssey, but it’s faster moving.
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