picture turned and came to the earth Buenos Aires at the other end. Roberto is the owner of a small hardware store, withdrawn, stubborn, meticulous, regular and boring. He has many stereotyped hobbies, such as peeling off the skin when eating bread for breakfast; flipping through a large stack of newspapers every night and turning out absurd news into newspaper clippings; turning off the lights and falling asleep on time at 11 o'clock in the evening; Count them one by one, and then get angry with the suppliers who are short of cats; each year, on the mother’s birthday, a small and exquisite glass decoration is given to the deceased mother... The
above two seemingly irrelevant. However, their personalities unexpectedly meet. Qian Jun, a solitary Chinese boy, came to Argentina to join his uncle and met Roberto, a solitary foreign uncle. As a result, the story unfolds between the two strangers, and creates an uncontrollable joke and thought-provoking life truth.
The tension of the film is quite natural: Roberto's kind nature and withdrawn character determine that he is always hesitant to keep Qian Jun; and Roberto and Qian Jun often talk with ducks and contradictions due to language barriers. Roberto had N chances to abandon the Chinese guy, and even a few times he had almost dumped Qian Jun. However, under the combined effect of coincidence and Roberto’s kindness, they came together again and again, and they were full of them. Accidental and inevitable.
Life is made up of countless accidents and inevitability. Some things may seem absurd and meaningless. Because of the influence of war and the loss of his father, Robert has formed a negative and escapist character, and has been collecting absurd news to prove his choice. However, when he learned from Qian Jun that the unfortunate person in the "cow incident" in the newspaper clipping was the young man in front of him, Roberto was obviously moved. At the end of the film, Roberto finally plucked up the courage and drove to the Mary who had repeatedly shown love to him but was repeatedly rejected by him.
And this scene is the essence of the director’s previous series of "accidents" and "smiles": Although the negativity and sadness in life cannot be avoided, as long as we can face the difficulties bravely and try to make changes, Will definitely get closer and closer to the better side.
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