Review of The Motive

The film narrates the story of a man, Álvaro, who is insanely obsessed with writting a "high literature" novel. Once his writing professor criticizes one of his assignments for an obvious lack of truthfullness and meaning, the main character decides to write the definitive novel. To do so, he will orchestrate his neighbors's life in all manner of ways, to see their reactions and therefore have the story written by itself. Álvaro, as every writer who starts a book, has to write and develop the characters of his novel, but this time he does it in a literal way. As some sort of God, he decides to write the life and therefore the story of his neighbors, who will be the characters of his book. After doing as much as possible to stir the life of his neighbors, the ending of his book is unexpectedly written by someone else.

This is a movie about story writing, fate and life itself. No matter the effort you put into writing anybody's life because at the end, life finds a way to hit and surprise you.