4x4

4x4 is a 2019 Spanish-language crime thriller film based on actual events by Mariano Cohn from a screenplay he co-wrote with Gastón Duprat. Produced by the latter, the film, an Argentine-Spanish co-production, stars Peter Lanzani as Ciro, a criminal who breaks into a 4x4 SUV, owned by an obstetrician medic Enrique Ferrari (Dady Brieva), in order to steal the car stereo. The car has a security mechanism that cuts the power, trapping Ciro in the process. Plot Ciro (Peter Lanzani) is walking in a neighborhood in Buenos Aires when he sees an SUV model car that catches his interest. He breaks into it, begins taking anything including the stereo, and defiles the car by peeing and passing gas. When he tries to get out, however, he cannot open the doors. He frantically tries to get out, ripping the door panels off but cuts his arm when reaching for the lock mechanism, the floor having reinforced steel, and when he tries his gun to shoot at the front windshield the bullet bounces off and the ricochet hits him in the thigh. He tries calling for help but his cellphone dies. Ciro uses his shirt as a tourniquet to stop the bleeding. The situation worsens when he finishes off the last of his Pepsi bottle due to the heat. He sees a woman fixing her makeup using the car door window but when Ciro screams for help, she does not hear him. When nighttime comes, Ciro is plagued by thirst, causing him to lick the door windows for water. Morning comes and Ciro reinstalls the stereo to play music, helping to maintain his sanity. The stereo stops playing, a number calls the car with the caller ID saying ‘ME’. It is the owner of the car, Enrique, (Dady Brieva) a doctor specializing in obstetrics. He tells Ciro that the security system he built into the car, which he calls 4x4, has cut the electric power within the car at the moment Ciro broke in, the car is completely bulletproof, soundproofed and polarized; so no one will hear or see him crying for help; the only thing not secured is the gas tank, but Enrique teases that it has been rigged with an explosive that will explode when Ciro gets defiant.