"Night Watch (Ronda Nocturna) is a very strange film. It follows Victor, a street hustler in Buenos Aires, through a night while he aimlessly wanders the streets and has seemingly random encounters with various denizens of the night. He spends time with fellow hustlers, friends, the homeless, and clients, but nothing leads to anything nor do the various encounters relate to each other. Some encounters are short, such as people asking him what bus to take, and others are quite extended, such as the taxi ride and dinner Victor shares with an old friend, but none of these seem to relate to any central theme. This essentially leaves a movie with no plot and no conclusion. There are some surreal moments thrown in that are never explored further: We wonder whether these sequences are intended to show some kind of descent into paranoia or delusion by Victor, or if they are an attempt by the director to add some artsy aspects, because these plot elements do not develop nor are tied in to anything. What we end up with is a movie where we follow a character through what seems to be a random night in his life. Nothing revelational happens to him, nor does he appear to make any life changes as a result of his experiences that night. As daybreak occurs, we are still following Victor as he apparently begins a new day, yet there is no ending nor even anything that even makes us think the movie is coming to an end. The credits start rolling, and we are left scratching our heads wondering the whole point of it all."
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