8/10
Victor Mina: "Who are you ...
18 December 2015
Warning: Spoilers
.... tell me who you are?" And the help freeing the birds: "It does not want to fly" and the old lady: "Then you have to make it to fly." One after one the cages are opened and the birds helped to fly towards freedom. The birds are a metaphor. The birds in the cages and Marina Farfán who won the competition among many of the staff. For a ten days Playa Salamandra with another person. Everything is free. Her sister wants but can not as she divorces. And not he and not she she contacts. Marina meets by Chance Victor Mina, another loner - and Victor agrees. He is a former schoolmate she can't remember. Both were and still are loners, not looking at or seeing others. Too shy for such an adventure. To know each other before the trip they are together in different settings. A movie, a picnic, a restaurant - followed finally ... by sex.

During a rain shower (the car gets stuck) the final hollywoodian question: "Will you marry me?" - followed by the yes-answer. But what will happen beyond, after the movie? Two people, being so near each other with their awkward shyness. Has their relation a future of reality?

The movies message: two loners, afraid to be among others and with each other, are able not only to socialize but ... like it. Admitting their fault to each other they find a way of acceptance. And: 'cross the line' - as the end tells. Are they cured? No. They have found a way to accept each other with the possibility to live with both of there faults in a daily life.

Everybody is in need of help with the first step. Even those used to it. Believing they manage it alone, Without help. They do not see the need of subtle help. As the caged birds tells: one has to open the cage and take one of the birds and the rest will follow when the first step of help is taken.

Marina, returning from her trip (she decided to went alone, without Victor) is met at the airport by him. With her she has a shell as a gift for him: "It reminded me of you." He could have answered: "It is you, too."
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