The Paramedic Movie Review: A Shoddily Scripted Netflix Work with Sheer Cliches

Cast: Mario Casas, Deborah Francois

Human behaviour is complex, convoluted and layered in bizarre ways. The Shahid Kapoor-starrer 2019 Kabir Singh is a classic example of how people respond and react. Singh is a medical student, a confirmed bully whose romantic inclination towards Preeti Sikka (played by Kiara Advani) is woven into a web of brutish behaviour. Yet, she puts up with it, and stays with him, suffering all the while. Mani Ratnam’s Kaatru Veliyidai talks about a similar situation in which the girl (Aditi Rao Hydari) tolerates her husband”s (Karthi) unruly behaviour. There are any number of works – Berlin Syndrome and The Room among others – where women get enslaved in bloody cruelty.

Carles Torres’ Spanish work, The Paramedic (El Practiciante), just out on Netflix, also focuses on irrational conduct. Angel (Mario Casas) is a paramedic who works for an emergency ambulance service. And in one the first scenes, we see his cruelty when he does not attend to an elderly dying couple caught in their over-turned car. Possessive about his girlfriend, Vane (Deborah Francois), Angel becomes even more tyrannical after he loses control over his legs following an accident