Yesterday I just talked to you about a Spanish drama, and today I will pick up another Spanish movie.
The Spanish small films that I talked to you about before basically have their own "brain-burning suspense" attributes.
Coupled with the enthusiastic and unrestrained personality of the people of Ban Duck, many people will immediately make up for the high-energy and eye-catching picture of "The Dark Side" when they mention Spanish movies.
However, the plate duck film to be talked about today presents a rare picture of small and fresh, large-scale mix-and-match style of dialogue - Old Watch Three.
The movie begins with a wedding, and the male protagonist Diego is holding a microphone and chattering "boldly",
But we didn't expect that after the camera was pulled away, we found out that this wedding was actually the scene of the disaster .
The bride repented on the same day and ran away with her relatives and friends, leaving only Diego's side full of guests.
This kind of stimulation makes Diego, who is already sensitive and fragile, sob with all kinds of grievances,
When the guests dispersed, only his two old cousins, Jose and Julian, were left with him.
The two thought that Diego would be fine if he cried for a while.
But unexpectedly, after drinking, he suddenly ran away, saying that he was going to his hometown to find his first love, Martina, and he wanted to dilute everything in front of him with a new love.
Although the two old watches felt that this idea was unreliable, in order to make Diego feel better, they had to drive immediately and ran to their hometown.
Revisiting the old place, the three brothers found that the town was still the same as the impression, and there was a peaceful scene everywhere.
They quickly turned on vacation mode and went to the amusement park HiPi as before.
But then they found that the people in the town had actually changed a lot.
For example, the owner of the video store, Baqi, has changed from a senior literary café to a down-and-out drunkard, drunk in the daytime, and still clamoring to jump into the sea.
And Martina, whom Diego has in mind, has actually become a single mother.
Seeing that Martina's son Dani was about eight or nine years old, the three brothers instantly gave a high-energy warning - this child paper is not Diego's son, right?!
Fortunately, Martina then denied their conjecture.
After ruling out the warning of illegitimate children, Diego immediately launched a pursuit of Martina, using tricks including but not limited to—
Taking advantage of the fact that no one around to confess affectionately,
Take the initiative to ask for cooking, show off your warm man skills,
Squinting at the nude beach, while "sincerely" appreciating Martina's figure,
In the evening, he confessed again, and said that he had come out of the shadow of being dumped and was ready to "love fiercely".
Although these tricks are not high-end, Diego still relies on the first love of the two little unsuspecting times to capture Martina's heart again.
It didn't take long for the two to do what they loved to do.
Even though Diego remembered the psychological shadow of being dumped at the wedding and occasionally cried and cried, Martina not only did not give up, but also promised Diego to help him heal.
At the same time that Diego's new love affair is smoothly developing, his two old watches are also quite full -
Hulian had planned to go crazy in the town, but it turned out that Baqi often jumped into the sea drunk, and he had to follow Baqi in case of accidents, acting as a lifeguard at any time.
Later, Julian discovered that Budge had been drinking heavily all day because he could not accept his daughter Clara as a helper at the nightclub.
But since his daughter was no longer in contact with him, Bachi could do nothing about it, and could only run to Clara's house on a regular basis and watch in silence.
Julian couldn't bear to see that Baqi, whom he had admired, ended up like this, so he decided to help him.
He took time out again to accompany Bachi fishing,
Again, he approached Clara disguised as a guest and persuaded her to try to reconcile with her father.
After repeated efforts, I finally saw some results.
And another old cousin, Jose, also found a playmate for himself- Martina's son Dani.
It turns out that Dani, like Jose, is a child who is always insecure and avoids anything new.
The same weaknesses made them both feel sorry for each other and began to get together every day to share their cowardly experiences.
It can be said that although the hometown vacation plan this time is a whim, the three old watches have received unexpected surprises.
The simple painting style in the town as always allows them to regain the happy life of their youth.
Later, Martina also found a precious video from more than a decade ago, which was the performance of the three of them in the town to form a "backstreet old watch" group "debut".
At that time, everyone was young and crazy and full of vitality, which made several old cousins who have now become uncles sigh for a while, and they did not want to leave the town more and more.
But the cruel thing is that it didn't take long for two people to come up in town, and in an instant they were pulled back to the real life full of troubles.
One of them, Jose's control freaks, is the female ticket.
She came up and scolded Diego and blamed them for not giving the nervous José time to take his medicine.
The other, the ex-fiancée who threw Diego off, suddenly returned and said she wanted to reunite with Diego.
Their appearance directly beats the lives of the old cousins back to the prototype.
Jose was strictly "supervised" by the female ticket, not only did not have time to play with his little friend Dani, but also cooperated with the female ticket to show affection;
Diego was sandwiched between the old and the new female votes, and for a second he returned to his previous state of crying and crying.
Seeing that he could not handle such a complicated situation, Diego ran to his father's grave to cry and complain, and sighed with the two old watches-
How simple was the previous life, no distractions, stand on the stage and sing love songs to the girl, you can be happy all summer;
Unlike now, everyone can only rely on alcohol and antidepressants to alleviate the depression in their hearts.
Speaking of this, the three old watches suddenly realized that this small town vacation on a whim may be a life-changing opportunity in the dark.
Maybe just do something different than you used to, and your life will take a turn for the better.
And the "different thing" they think of is to once again appear on the stage of the town as a "backstreet old watch".
Although they were no longer youthful compared to then, when they twisted and turned on the stage in suits and pants, they still triggered the cheers of the audience.
It was this performance on stage that activated their memories of their youth and madness, and gave the three old watches a new look.
They realize that the complex adult world imposes too many constraints on them, leaving them too intimidated to truly control their own lives.
For example, Diego in the film, because he is afraid of loneliness, always wants to give himself a sense of security by falling in love.
This time desperately returned to the town to find Martina, the purpose is also to find a person who can "seamlessly" make his relationship "seamless" after being dumped.
Although he is sincere and affectionate in the pursuit, in fact, he does not know how to handle a relationship correctly.
So whenever he thinks of his ex-fiancée, he cries and cries, and when two women appear at the same time, he is neither in control nor knows what choice to make.
And the neurotic Jose, who needs to swallow medicine every day to relieve tension, as if life itself is his natural enemy.
But he did not realize that it was not himself who had mental illness, but the female ticket that controlled him in every way.
And Then there's Julian, who spends his days pinning himself on a "playboy" persona, as if he doesn't flirt with his sister for a second, he's not a man.
But in fact, he has done the most "grandfather" act, that is, he has saved the drunken and jumping sea many times, and has done his best to reconcile their father and daughter as before, and has not taken any advantage of it.
From this point of view, the re-appearance of the three old watches on stage is essentially a real transformation of them from youth to maturity.
So it's not hard to guess the ending after that—
Julian not only contributed to the reconciliation of The Father and Daughter of Bachi, but also found the female ticket by the way, abandoned the playboy's personality, and became a good man;
Diego no longer dwells on the problem of the former incumbent and simply chooses Martina;
As for José, who is nervous all day, the change is even greater.
He eventually took the equally timid Dani to challenge the pirate ship that he had never dared to sit on, and threw off the female ticket in public on the ship, vowing to keep his life firmly in his hands.
Although the final ending of the film still does not get rid of the routine of reunion, is "consummation" not exactly what each of us envision of life?
We all hope to return to the simple happiness of our youth, and to have a group of good friends around when we become adults, and to reminisce about the madness of the past. Even if life becomes a mess, I can still calmly make choices according to my inner thoughts.
Perhaps this is the greatest happiness brought to us by films such as Old Cousin Three, even if we know that life is not easy, we can still evoke the beauty in our hearts through movies.