“ Under Her Control, ” or “ La Jefa ” in native Spanish, is an interesting and kindly disturbing tale of two women who make an agreement between themselves that gradationally sours their relationship. Despite there not being anything spectacular in either the plot or the prosecution, the film does hold its ground for the utmost part, as the agitating mistrust between the two characters has successfully fawned. While it can be argued that the film’s climax lets it down, with action soddening down the drama, what “ Under Her Control ” offers isn't too bad and makes for an amusing watch.
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‘ Under Her Control ’ Plot Summary What Is The Film About?
Sofia is a youthful woman living in Madrid with her swain, Nacho, floundering to have a good life as both of them still have no professional stability. While Nacho works as a real estate agent trying to save up a plutocrat to start his own business in the same field, Sofia doesn't yet work and only receives a call for an interview on the morning of the film. The two have enough love and sparking chemistry between them, however, as Sofia frequently goes over to the empty apartments Nacho shows to implicit buyers to have sessions of love. Nacho expresses some desire to return to their native South America, as being a real estate director in Colombia is easier and further profitable than in Spain, but Sofia quashes these conversations every time, reminding him that she didn't leave Argentina only to go back. She is, thus, understandably agitated to admit the call for an interview, especially at an apparel brand where she has always wanted to work. She also doesn't forget to thank God for the chance to visit her church before she goes to the interview. At the fashion company, she's hired as an intern adjunct to the woman who runs the whole business, Beatriz.
All goes veritably well for Sofia, as she enjoys her new job and also frequently takes up liabilities on her own, grabbing Beatriz’s attention. She's indeed seen to make opinions about the fashion side of effects, and not the business side, as she has been hired to do, and Beatriz approves of her choices as well. Her relationship with Nacho also goes well, as he's hopeful that she'd lead implicit guests to his agency since she'd now be rubbing shoulders with rich crowds. still, all this takes a quick and sharp turn when Sofia finds out that she's pregnant. Although not entirely antipathetic to the idea of getting a mama, she knows that now is the worst time financially for her and Nacho to come parents. Sofia tries to suppose getting a revocation and tries to seek confirmation from her religion, as she tells of her want inside the concession chamber. This doesn't( obviously) work, as the clerk only says that killing a future baby is the worst thing a human can do, and the religious Sofia is indeed more confused. maybe stewing that telling Nacho about the news would make him happy and he'd want to keep it irrespective of their delicate fiscal situation, she doesn't tell her swain anything. rather, it's Beatriz whom she opens up to, telling her about the gestation and asking for advice. The master, Beatriz, who had still been looking for love through a series of casual alliances, agrees to help Sofia and presents a strange proposition.
What Is The Agreement That Sofia And Beatriz Make Between Themselves?
The aging Beatriz had been looking forward to starting a family of her own for quite some time, but the pressure of running a company could noway give her the time to go about doing it. Now that Sofia has told her whole situation to Beatriz, she decides to make use of this occasion to get herself a successor. She tells Sofia that her new job at the company won't be affected at each, for she'd take the hand under her sect and care, and since Sofia didn't want the baby, Beatriz would take it after its birth. The elder woman also discusses this entire idea with her gynecologist's stylish friend and her hubby, who has dealings with the law, and the two also give their concurrence to it. Eventually, Beatriz presents the whole plan to Sofia and also tells her that all her needs during her gestation would be taken care of as she'd be moved into Beatriz’s sprawling house just outside the megacity. Although Sofia knows that agreeing to such a plan would mean that she'd have to go down from her cherished Nacho, she also realizes that it's the only way to deal with her situation.
Where “ Under Her Control ” works its charm is in the fact that both the central characters are inversely opportunistic and ready to manipulate their situations for the sake of their benefit. While Beatriz makes use of the problem her new hand is facing, Sofia, on the other hand, makes use of her master ’ wish to come to a mama. When Sofia sits down with Beatriz and her two musketeers to talk about the deal, she's quick to ask for double the formerly-high compensation that she was getting to basically come to a surrogate mama, and she also demands two paid passages to her native Argentina. She also signs the sanctioned document, which poses her as the surrogate mama willing to give her invigorated baby to the other party, Beatriz, before she indeed informs Nacho about any of this. She returns to Nacho, who still has no idea about her gestation, and tells him that she has been offered a creation at her job, for which she'd have to spend the coming many months in London. The swain doesn't agree to such a proposition, saying that he didn't want to be down from her for so long, but also learns that Sofia has formally agreed to it. latterly on, it's also revealed that all the academic qualifications that Sofia had talked about during her interview at Beatriz’s company were false as well and that the woman had only made it all up to get the job.
Next, Beatriz drives Sofia to her house and sets her over there for the coming many months of lavish living. While Beatriz drives down every day to her office, Sofia is left substantially alone with only a Vietnamese domestic coadjutor named Tati. Although Sofia originally enjoys her days then, walking around the big house and its emulsion, which indeed has a spa and a swimming pool outside, she gradationally starts to feel commodity is out. Looking around inside the house, she finds retired security cameras with live feed transmission on, meaning that Beatriz was keeping an eye on her indeed when she was alone at the home. Sofia confronts her master about it and tells her to remove all these cameras from the inside, and Beatriz seems to accept her want, although the security cameras outdoors are left functional. still, commodity further minatory seems to be in the workshop when, right after her battle with the cameras, Sofia’s phone goes missing. The phone had been the only means of communicating with the outside world, especially with Nacho, who believed Sofia was in London. Sofia realizes that she's cut off from the outside world, especially because Tati also doesn't have a phone of her own. When Beatriz is told of this, she promises to bring Sofia a new phone, but she takes an alarmingly long number of days to deliver on her pledge. Before that, she lets Sofia formerly talk to Nacho on her iPad, and the youthful woman breaks down seeing her nut, but can not say anything about her situation.
Sofia had before seen Tati go up to a locked room on the top bottom of the house as part of her cleaning duties, and she now makes trouble knowing what's inside it. She manages to express her want to Tati, who speaks only her native language, and enters the room to see that Beatriz has been setting up the space for the baby. As the baby had been before linked to being a boy by her gynecologist friend, Beatriz had indeed labeled everything in the room with the name of her forthcoming baby, Carlos. still, while this isn't explored presently in the film, the room arguably looks too decorated and planned out for a baby that was still months down, and at first regard, it indeed looks like a room that had before been used to rear a baby. It might also feel that hiring a youthful woman like Sofia could also have been Beatriz’s plan to ever get herself a child. Many days latterly, Sofia sees that Tati is no longer in the house, and all the filmland of her family that she had put up on the wall in her room is also gone. It might be perceived as Tati’s discipline for having shown Sofia the room upstairs, or it might indeed be that Beatriz was ever manipulating Tati into working for her as well, and had now let her go because she demanded Sofia to be alone in the house. Going through Beatriz’s closet, Sofia finds some further suspicious rudiments — many beaches of hair precisely packed down and a small empty charnel - suchlike thing.
Around this same time, Beatriz also starts acting veritably dominating and controlling over Sofia, and she doesn't watch important when Sofia complains about her discomfort. One autumn, when Beatriz is down, Sofia tries climbing over the main gate to escape the house but is eventually struck down by the electric walls, and Beatriz rushes back home after seeing it on her security camera footage. At the same time that she comes to her house, a distrait and hopeless Nacho goes over to her office in hunt of her missing gal. For quite many days now, Nacho had been unfit to reach Sofia or talk to her except for the one time she had called him from Beatriz’s iPad. stewing that commodity might be wrong with her, he'd checked in with the company’s London branch and had learned that Sofia had no way been there. Realizing that Beatriz might be the one responsible for her situation, she now goes to her office and manages to get hold of her house address. In the meantime, Beatriz had been informed about the man’s presence in her office, and when she drives out to go meet him at her office, Nacho drives down to her house. He rings the doorbell, and an anesthetized Sofia answers him, but she's unfit to open the door and only asks him to inform the police. Getting no mobile network at the place, Nacho tries going around the house to call the police. still, on her way to her office, Beatriz learns that Nacho has left the place, conceivably towards her home, and she now makes a quick return to her country house.
‘ Under Her Control ’ Ending Explained What Happens To Nacho, Sofia, And Beatriz?
As Beatriz drives back to her house, she sees Nacho on the private dirt road leading to the place, and she runs him over, killing him incontinently. She also sees the swain’s auto and goes to dispose of it nearly, only returning home late in the evening. By this time, Sofia had tried crying for help but had gotten no response, and when Beatriz returned, they both pretended as if nothing unusual had happed. Realizing that Sofia was now at her most unstable mind, Beatriz tells her that her croaker friend would perform a C- section operation on her on the veritably coming day. Although Sofie doesn't reply too important to this news, she realizes that her time is over, for she believes that Beatriz would kill her after the baby is delivered. latterly that night during regale, Sofia violently hits Beatriz with a rustic rolling leg, terribly injuring her, and holds her interned inside the house. She also suspects that her master might have harmed her swain since Nacho didn't return, and constantly stabs Beatriz to make her reveal what she has done to him. Beatriz doesn't let anything out, however, and she rather tries to tell Sofia how she'd most surely let her go after she delivered the baby. The coming morning, Sofia takes all the plutocrat and jewelry that she can find inside the house, and also the contract that she had inked to give up her baby, and is about to leave the place when she sees that Beatriz is missing from the spot she had been held interned. It's Beatriz who now attacks Sofia, but the youthful woman pulls out a brace of ornamental scissors( ironically, a prize that Beatriz had won for her work in fashion) and stabs Beatriz to death. In a crippled condition with tearful eyes, Sofia leaves the house and walks through the dirt road alone when her water breaks, indicating that she's soon about to give birth.
The two characters in “ Under Her Control ” both are inversely devilish and with possible ill- intentions. While it's veritably important possible that Beatriz was indeed planning to kill Sofia, the fact that Sofia goes to the extent of killing her also speaks about how she is. Both women are ready to do just about anything to get their wishes and solicitations fulfilled. It's the mistrust that the two gradationally, or maybe from the veritable get-go, develop for each other that eventually makes both of them lash out at each other in their ways. Whether Beatriz had any other dark history isn't dealt with in the film, and it doesn’t matter important because of what's offered rather. “ Under Her Control ” substantially holds on to the original conspiracy, and a major part of it's due to the performances of Cumelen Sanz and Aitana Sanchez- Gijon in the supereminent places.
“ Under Her Control ” is a 2022 Drama Thriller film directed by Fran Torres.