![]() If both The Body and The Invisible Guest can be criticized, it’s because they both feel a little too chilly, too obvious in their construction, and too keen to excite: A couple of twists fewer would not have hurt and would have left more in reserve for the big finale. Various possible scenarios are presented skillfully - some real, some lies and some imagined. Every time it does not, she probes him a little more, insisting all the while on the importance of detail, which of course keeps the viewer watching carefully too. At the house, Laura realizes something that will color everything that comes later, while the storytelling shifts up a technical gear, recounting events that took place simultaneously and playing interesting games with point of view.Įvents make regular returns to the hotel room where Goodman, whose job is to be suspicious, is testing Adrian to make sure his story will hold up. ![]() The backroads accident kills a young driver, and Laura panics: They agree that Adrian will get rid of the body while Laura will wait for help, which comes in the form of local man, middle-aged Tomas Garrido (Jose Coronado, who played the lead in The Body), who tows her car back to his family home. Because a last-minute witness is threatening to show up at the soon-to-start trial with damning new evidence, they have three hours, as Goodman’s stopwatch literally clicks away, to come up with a defense - the Spanish title, meaning setback, translates literally as “against time.” And Goodman actually doesn’t believe a word of Doria’s blackmail story.Īn alternative version by Doria slowly emerges. To help him out, Doria hires the silver-gray haired, renowned witness preparation expert Virginia Goodman (Ana Wagener, a fine actress whose moment finally has come) and their face-to-faces as they circle the truth are among the film’s most memorable. This very contemporary film has its roots in such classic fare as The Murders in the Rue Morgue, Agatha Christie, and John Dickson Carr’s locked-room mystery masterpiece, The Hollow Man. InsideTracker: insidetracker.Following an apparent blackmail attempt - there’s a lot about Guest that is “apparent” or “seeming” - successful businessman Adrian Doria (Mario Casas, an actor who could have made a successful living as a pretty-boy hunk, but who prefers to take roles - with varying success - which will challenge him as an actor) is found in a locked hotel room with the dead body of his lover, fashion photographer Laura Vidal (Barbara Lennie, doing a modern-day femme fatale to follow her winsome turn in Nelly Regueras‘ Maria (And the Others)). This might be the most powerful and impactful of our conversations to date. In case you’ve missed my previous conversations with Darin, be sure to check out episodes #153, #268, #382, and #542.ĭarin is a friend, a mentor, and my go-to counsel when it comes to better aligning my life with my values. ![]() He’s the New York Times bestselling author of SuperLife and cohost of the Emmy™ Award Winning, #1 Netflix docu-series, Down to Earth with Zac Efron. If you are new to this superfood-hunting adventurer, Darin has devoted his life to advancing human health, ecological preservation, and sustainability. Here to help us make sense of this insanity is wellness expert Darin Olien, returning for his fifth appearance on the show. And yet, these things are used ubiquitously in our daily lives without a second thought. ![]() Everything from deodorant and denim to detergent and dental floss-even seemingly innocuous things like carpet, crayons, and candles, unbeknownst to most, are abound with chemicals either unproven safe or demonstrably harmful. Today’s guest has a name for the pernicious ways in which the many products we routinely use are actually harming us in very real but often invisible ways: fatal conveniences.
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