Film Is About a Failed Musician
Autor: LOLA2013 • April 3, 2013 • Essay • 453 Words (2 Pages) • 1,419 Views
I watched a film call, "La Ardilla Roja". This film is about a failed musician, Jota, whose girlfriend left him and was about to commit suicide by jumping off a bridge when a girl, Sofia, on a motorcycle crashed off it. After saving the girl, he found out that she lost her memory and even forgetting her own name. He lied to the paramedics and Sofia that she is his girlfriend. When the hospital psychiatrist starting to become suspicious of his story, Jota seek Sofia out and invented a fake relationship according to his fantasies, even give her a name. Together, they went to "La Ardilla Roja", a campsite for red squirrel sightseeing. Although, Jota, invented their whole relationship, Sofia, has a secret of her own. Sofia did not lose her memory but actually go along with Jota's lie to hide from her psychotic ex-boyfriend, Felix, who is killing random people across the country in search of her.
I like the ideal of finding identity of oneself against the temptation of existing lie tat told one's life is perfectly fine. As the movie show Sofia who supposedly named Lisa, has a perfect love relationship with Jota, but in real life was actually in a threaten relationship with a psychotic ex-boyfriend who trying to capture her. This portray a idea of real identity unfold other unknown story of one's life. I think Sofia live un unhappy life as she is threaten by her ex-boyfriend Felix, but still using lie to try to escape from Felix instead of find some legal help is not a good way to solve problem. At the end, Sofia's lie caught up to her as Felix found her and she can only continue to flee from him.
At the end of the movie, Jota write a song about Sofia and broadcast it alone with his apology for betrayed her. Jota found out that Sofia knew who he was all alone. He found out from her brother that she never lost her memory and she only use him to escape from Felix. But he love Sofia and demand to know
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