The narrator's own universe

After a very creative opening credits sequence that combines the names of the artistic team with the typical lyrics that any patient should read on a visit to the measurement of eye vision, El otro describing the outer and inner journey of John Desouza (Julio Chavez) , a lawyer for 46 years who learns that his wife (Inés Molina) is pregnant. After addressing, as every night, to care and bathing her bedridden father (Osvaldo Bonet), takes one of their regular professional visits a day by small towns in the country.

However, from a fortuitous event (the death of a passenger on the bus) and amid a sense of great inner turmoil that forced him to take another perspective on his life, the protagonist decides to impersonate the other (for other ) and not return to Buenos Aires. So, amid the desolate streets of the city of Victoria Entre Rios, recall the most primal instincts of life, will connect with nature, suffer the inner fear of being lost at night and maintain a passionate encounter with a young woman of the place (Mary Ucedo, member of dance-theater group The Descueve).

With a huge work of Chavez (one of the few actors from Argentina, along with Ricardo Darin, capable of sustaining a long plane only with the intensity and nuances of a different look), with rigorous and austere staging based on static shots , with a nuanced picture perfect by Marcelo Lavintman and tasteful work on the multiple possibilities of the sound of Martin Litmanovich (Rotter completely ignore the incidental music), El otror bet, with its silences that seem to stay the time and with his gaze on the body, to the purely sensory, while achieving great wealth to transmit a variety of physical and emotional stimuli.
Sober

It is true that the other refers almost inevitably in a plot excuse Passenger, Michelangelo Antonioni's classic, with Jack Nicholson, who keeps several elements in common with other exponents of the new Argentine cinema, like Anna and the others, Celina Murga (which also had a personal journey from Buenos Aires to Victoria) also, the narrative rhythm and introspective look of the character of Julio Chavez have certain similarities with the work he had done the same actor in Strange, by Santiago Loza and in The Guardian, Rodrigo Moreno, but Rotter is far from being the mere recycling of ideas or records of others.

With greater sobriety, dramatic concentration and strictness in its decent debut, Just for Today (2001), Rotter flight shows that you have enough talent as a writer and storyteller to construct their own universe, in many passages, is fascinating and -- beyond a certain distance, secrecy and eventually also thrilling, especially in its magnificent consecration final plan.