A group of friends is attacked by a father and son while enjoying themselves outside the city. What do these disgusting people want, and what is wrong with them?
Trauma is a Chilean movie that many have talked about as being similar to A Serbian Film. If you have watched that movie, you know what to expect if you watch Trauma.
However, I would not say that Trauma is on the same level as A Serbian Film. A Serbian Film made a bigger impact, and except for two distasteful scenes, it was not an awful movie.
For me, Trauma was very exhausting. The first scene where the father threatens his son to do something to a tortured woman hit me hard, but the rest of the movie did not. It is about Chilean history when the brutal Pinochet ruled Chile.
We see what a crazy father teaches his son, and many years later, we follow the son who has become a crazy, disgusting man with a nauseating mustache. By the way, the father looks like Harris from Police Academy.
I have watched so many of these revenge movies where women seek revenge on their attackers. At that point, Trauma did not surprise me. I have found out that I am too old for this nonsense, especially these shock movies that are outdated in my world.
It all becomes so unreal when women seek revenge and are helped by stupid men who are just as dumb as the women. That is when I lost interest because, after the brutal and memorable opening scene, Trauma falls through the ice and drowns.
The women in the movie are uninteresting. They are lesbians, they have some friction within the group, and that is it. These are empty characters that I did not care about. You are reminded that this is just a movie, and it gets worse when the father and son show up in the house.
Suddenly, Trauma transforms into a generic horror movie with boring and uncreative scenes. The movie spends too much time focusing on violence. It should have focused more on the backstory and taken it more slowly with the upbringing of the adult son of the father who was himself broken by his father. That is the most interesting part of the movie for me.
Trauma has a message; it tells us what went wrong during a difficult time for Chile. But all it wants is to be brutal and shock us. Except for the opening scene and another scene that is very similar to A Serbian Film, I quickly got tired of following the father and son in the movie as they seemed more like generic movie characters from a horror movie. They should have toned it down when it came to these two characters. They should have made them more human.
