While working on a thesis about audiovisual violence, film student Ángela finds a snuff video where a girl is tortured until death. Soon she discovers that she was a former student in her university, and that the authors of the video are not very far either.
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Nate H. reviewed Thesis (1996)
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A college student writing a paper on the effect on society of violence in media asks her professor to recommend her material to research. When the professor turns up dead, she finds herself at the center of peril. Of course, that doesn’t stop her from embarking on her own mission to find out what the professor was looking into. She joins forces with an outcast classmate who is an expert on horror films and the two form an odd couple detective team which is all a little ridiculous considering the circumstances. However, Thesis’s jacket of Hitchcockian influence looks pretty good at times. In the end, a whodunit with little surprise as to who actually done it, it instead glides you forward with clever cinematography to make up for uninspired banter and boring characters.
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