Throughout the whole movie, I was kept on my toes. I always thought that Garcia Lorca’s murderer would have been Maria Eugenia’s father, the Colonel. The Colonel always struck me as shady and suspect. I did not understand why finding out who killed Garcia Lorca was such a big deal to Ricardo, but once it was revealed that Ricardo’s own father was the murderer, I was shocked. I felt that the movie started off abruptly; I would have appreciated if they took a bit more time to speak more about the Spanish Civil War and what was going on, as I do not know that much about it. In addition, I would have liked for them to elaborate more on why it was ordered for Garcia Lorca to be murdered, which was him going against many of the Catholic church’s
