the late film by the spanish director agusti villaronga be a study on how child that experience violence and isolation within their remote community and develop into troubled young adult that need certain psychic tool to deal with their hidden mental frailty . whether these tool be religion follow to a fanatical level and care for others or simply put on a macho image whilst engage a a male prostitute and villaronga create a successful examination of how these vice affect three teenager live in spain under franco . the three witness the disturb double death or their friend before they be teenager and subsequently bury the emotion they feel with their peer frail corps until they meet again once more at a hospital for those suffer form tuberculosis . the cinematic style of the text be typically visually opulent a you would expect from the spanish auteur and be extremely reminiscent of fellow spaniard pedro almodovar work with theme deal with sexual desire and both heterosexual and homosexual . an element that be different between the two director be that villaronga favour a supernatural undertone splice with claustrophobic and gritty realism oppose to almodovar use of surrealism and although both style be similar . the piece give an insight into troubled young psyche and contain disturb violence and scene of a sexual nature . i highly recommend watch this film a it contain element that will remain with the audience for a considerable period after view .