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Though taking place in a prison, the movie does not follow most of the tropes associated with the prison genre. It won 22 awards, including the Goya award for Best Spanish Film.

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=== This film provides examples of: ===

* [[Alternate Character Interpretation]]

* [[Anti Hero]]: Malamadre, though he's introduced as a [[Complete Monster]] (He isn't).

* [[Anti-Hero]]: Malamadre, though he's introduced as a [[Complete Monster]] (He isn't).

* [[As Long As It Sounds Foreign]]: Carlos Bardem ([[Poor ~~Mans~~ Substitute|brother to most famous Javier]]) seems to be aiming for a "generic Latin American" accent more than for a Colombian one.

* [[As Long As It Sounds Foreign]]: Carlos Bardem ([[Poor Man's Substitute|brother to most famous Javier]]) seems to be aiming for a "generic Latin American" accent more than for a Colombian one.

* [[The Alcatraz]]: The SWAT team barricades the prison, preventing anyone from escaping.

* [[Badass Baritone]]: Malamadre.

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* [[Fake Nationality]]: Spanish Carlos Bardem as a Colombian prisoner.

* [[Fallen Hero]]

* [[Family Unfriendly Aesop]]: {{spoiler|The Government is either cowardly or evil. Criminals are actually the better people.}}

* [[Family-Unfriendly Aesop]]: {{spoiler|The Government is either cowardly or evil. Criminals are actually the better people.}}

* [[Flash Back]]: The scenes involving Juan and Elena.

* [[Flash Forward]]: The scenes dealing with the later investigation about the mutiny events.

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* [[Improvised Weapon]]: The prisoners manage to built knives and [[Scaramanga Special|even guns]] out of water pipes.

* [[Ironic Echo]]: "You do what you can."

* [[Kick the Dog]]: "Putavieja" has three. First he tortures an inmate in another alley to know how the riot started. {{spoiler|Then he [[Moral Event Horizon|kills Juan's pregnant wife]]. And then he reveals Juan's identity to the other prisoners in order to save his sorry ass, but [[Laser Guided Karma|it doesn't work]].}}

* [[Kick the Dog]]: "Putavieja" has three. First he tortures an inmate in another alley to know how the riot started. {{spoiler|Then he [[Moral Event Horizon|kills Juan's pregnant wife]]. And then he reveals Juan's identity to the other prisoners in order to save his sorry ass, but [[Laser-Guided Karma|it doesn't work]].}}

* [[Knight Templar]]: Utrilla.

* [[Magnificent Bastard]]: Apache. {{spoiler|Malamadre will probably get him after the ending of the film, though.}}

* [[Mean Character Nice Actor]]: Luis Tosar may look scary, but is actually a really nice person, and a singer to boot.

* [[Mean Character, Nice Actor]]: Luis Tosar may look scary, but is actually a really nice person, and a singer to boot.

* [[Moral Event Horizon]]

* [[Noble Demon]]: Played to the extreme by Malamadre, a murderer in a high secutiry cell, who ends being the most caring character.

* [[No Name Given]]: Excluding the ETA members, every convict is either unnamed or known by a nickname like Malamadre ("Badmother"), Apache or El Morao ("The Purple One").

* [[Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping]]: Alberto Amman's sounds properly Spaniard but his native Argentinian accent comes out in a couple of occassions when his character is specially distressed. This is justified because the character is from Argentina (as briefly seen in a dossier) but lives in Spain and eventually adquired the Spanish nationality -required to be a civil servant- so his actual speech could have evolved with the years.

* [[Out Damned Spot]]: Juan {{spoiler|after he cuts the terrorist's ear.}}

* [[Out, Damned Spot!]]: Juan {{spoiler|after he cuts the terrorist's ear.}}

* [[Rabid Cop]]: Urrutia.

* [[Playing Against Type]]: If you are Spanish ([[Germans Love David Hasselhoff|or Finnish]]) you'll be amused to see the [[Bumbling Dad]] from ''Los Serrano'' as the most depraved character in the film.