'Cage')[a][3] is a 2022 Spanish mystery psychological thriller[4] film directed by Ignacio Tatay (in his feature debut) and co-written by Isabel Peña.
While returning home one night, they notice a mute young girl wandering alone in the middle of the road and take her to the hospital.
Simón and friends decide to hold an intervention, but Paula, despondent at losing the girl, tells them to leave.
Simón then confronts Paula about secretly taking fertility injections, accusing her of obsessing over Clara, and showing her hidden glass shards.
Distressed, she phones the police, who report that the call was made from Paula's cellphone and ask she take a psychological examination.
Paula returns home and notices a drawing Clara had made of her neighbour and friend, Eduardo, from inside their house.
In a flashback, Eduardo is seen carrying Clara onto the road, telling her to follow the centre line, not to talk, and to walk towards a police checkpoint ahead.
[14] Distributed by Sony Pictures Entertainment Iberia,[12] the film was theatrically released in Spain on 9 September 2022[1] and came out on Netflix on 24 October 2022.
[10] Miguel Ángel Romero of Cinemanía rated the film 3 out of 5 stars, writing that Tatay makes a masterful debut, "a horror-tinged thriller whose strength lies in the acting quality of its protagonists".
[17] Marshall Shaffer of Decider.com considered that despite being a "promising feature debut" for Tatay, the film "never quite coheres as it should", failing to "fulfill all its ambitions or breakthrough beyond its (admittedly impressively crafted) atmosphere".