The first thing caught my eye was that the beautiful female neighbor Angelica is actually stared by Jennifer Beals, who was also the leading actress in an American lesbian TV serial “The L World”. To my surprise, she can change her accent for different characters! With good acting， she seems to be quite out of mainstream films though. She did quite well in this film to form a multilevel character. She is a waitress with no patient and talks straight forwardly, hardly hide her emotion inside. And the same time she is the mother of two children, and no reliable husband, which gives her a lot of pressure, and makes her a bit nervous and irritable. She also retain a little bit of childlike innocent, which shown by her dancing in the snow. She is the muse of Aldolpho.
The loser writer had been broke since long, who could not even afford the rent of a small apartment in a run-down building. He contributed his whole life to a 500 pages script as thick as an encyclopedia, which is simply impossible to be executed. He treasured it a lot, but for paying the rent, he had nothing to sell but the script. Through his ads on newspaper Joe, a seemingly wealthy strange older gentleman, pays Aldolpho $1,000 cash for the work. Joe quickly becomes Aldolpho's warmhearted guardian, giving him confidence, helping him catching his dream girl Angelica, and nurturing his artistic goals. But the screen writer and his producer soon clash over the content of the film, and it takes a tragedy before Aldolpho can begin to understand Joe's point-of-view and create the work he's dreamed of.
Burgling and drug smuggling were not the things ever considered by Aldolpho, but he did without knowledge. When he finds out the truth, conflicts begin to be built between Joe and him. But finally it leads up to a tragic end. But what Aldolpho has got is a brilliant film, made during their experiment shots.
It is a excellent screenplay, three main characters are developed very well. Their personalities are multilayered, which makes the film more truth to life. It shows pretty much what themes in normal people’s lives: Friendship, love, trust, doubt, misunderstanding, forgiveness, lose and gain.
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