They Kill Horse Riders, Don’t They?: Ortega Puzzles with Deadpan Metaphors
Nothing is what it appears to be in Argentinean Luis Ortega’s latest film Kill the Jockey, a crime comedy drama which becomes an increasingly complex exercise regarding identity. The film itself suffers from the same semblance of identity crisis as some of its characters, which is akin to Ortega’s last film, El Angel (2018), about a cherub-faced criminal whose misdeeds initially seem all the more shocking because of his demeanor. Nahuel Pérez Biscayart leads the charge in what partially appears to be a trans allegory with a sometimes convoluted, sometimes amusing mixture of rebirth/reincarnation themes which might be overtly perplexing on a first view but most assuredly will reveal more complex interpretations upon closer examination.… Read the rest
