Oscar, is unemployed and cranky. The world has not gone his way. He considers himself a poet and he sees that as an excuse for the way he is. He is not particularly well liked. He meets a girl with a great talent and he begins to mentor her, which may bring about a change in his life.
Ubeimar Rios plays Oscar with a low key energy and largely one pained facial expression. How you relate to this tragi-comedy will depend on how you relate to the doomed Oscar. I did not connect to Oscar at all. While I understood why he felt as he did, and why he did the things he did, at the same time I wanted to shake him and make him realze he had to grow up at some point.
I also wasn't certain why this story was being told. What are we supposed to get out of it? On some level I felt that the film didn't particularly like Oscar since it seems to angle toward the ending from the start. This is very much the sort of tale I dislike which is one where the film has to have a tragedy in order to be meaningful, not because the tragedy is organic to the story.
While the film didn't work for me, it may work for you.
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