Water Lola
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Water Lola

/ 10 | Mexico
2018 | Drama
A woman lays in a hospital bed. A plastic tube feeds her and an other one let her breath. She is Lola (31) and has been on a coma for the last three years after after she attempted to commit suicide. Suddenly she wake up. In a villa in Acapulco in front of the pacific ocean, Douglas (50), a therapist who uses a cane to walk due to a disability, has his healing center. His patients and guests live all together there. Douglas's methods are unorthodox but people seems to be fascinated and dazzled. Eduardo (35) is a frustrated writer who has been hired by Douglas to write his memoirs. He attends astonished to the therapeutic rituals and has long chats with Douglas in order to sketch out the book. Eduardo gets isolated trying to decipher the enigmatic personality of his host. At night, when everyone is sleeping, Douglas gets out of the villa in a limousine an assists to a table dance weird show played by Julia, a young and beautiful dancer. The private show ends up when Julia surrounds with a kerchief Douglas's neck and pull it until he starts to get asphyxiated. It is the choking game. One year later we see Julia in a therapy in front of a woman psychologist. She talks about her past, about her failed relationships with men. Through the waves of the sea Lola swims and tries to reach the beach. The sea is brave, the current move her around. In front of Eduardo, Douglas expresses concern about the future of his patients, about the impression he causes on them, and whatever could happen if he disappear. In the therapy hall Douglas treats a patient. Eduardo witness everything. The therapist asks the patient why he wanted to die. After a disturbing silence, Douglas put three drops of a liquid into a glass of water, then he urges the patient to drink it. He obeys and after that Douglas commands him to vomit. The scene is bizarre. After they left Eduardo asks Douglas what the patient had drunk, he answers it was tetrodotoxin, a powerful poison that can causes death with only three drops. Lola finally reaches the coast. She walks as a revenant through the beach. Estefania (40) is Douglas's wife, he trusts her and they manage together the healing centre. She is suspicious about Eduardo, and doubts about his intentions and thinks he is a risk. Douglas doesn't give any importance to this opinions. When everyone is resting, the couple are in the roof top having a drink. Estefania plays some music, and Douglas stands and dances vividly with her. Eduardo has listened the mu

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