
Cosa fácil
1982

Representation Score
Fair
1988
Director
Hernando Name
Runtime
90 minutes
Average Rating
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Angel in the Night operates as a traditional genre thriller driven by personal vengeance. While it avoids some common clichés, it remains anchored in conventional narrative structures. The film's strongest point is its gender subversion. By giving a female psychiatrist both intellectual and tactical control, it moves beyond the typical victim archetype found in crime dramas. However, the film lacks depth in exploring diverse identities or systemic social critiques.
Category Breakdown
The film does not include any explicit LGBTQ+ characters or stories. It focuses on a traditional family unit and a straightforward revenge storyline, sticking to conventional social structures.
The protagonist challenges traditional gender roles by serving as the main driver of action. She transitions from dealing with domestic trauma to pursuing her goals tactically, breaking away from the damsel in distress stereotype.
The storyline follows a typical crime drama format without showing diverse casting. The setting implies a specific social environment centered around a particular social class.
The story examines vigilante justice through an individual's perspective rather than a broader cultural critique. It focuses on an individual's moral journey through trauma rather than addressing larger cultural ideologies.
The film touches on psychological trauma and recovery. However, the protagonist’s mental state might primarily function as a plot device to advance the revenge narrative.
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Limited or Absent
Official Synopsis
A respectable family is shot by a gang brutally together. Only the mother survives the perfidious raid. They, although psychiatrist, finds the way back only laboriously in the everyday life. However, then you play the chance one of the members of a gang in the hands. A young fellow which does not finish on his part the recollections and takes up unsuspectingly the help of the doctor. This recognizes immediately that the illustrated case is more own to her. Now the woman knows only one: Revenge. Under drugs her patient reveals details and names. As a result through various tricks and in varying disguising she approaches to the single members of a gang. It begins a hunt on life and death...

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