Gabriele Salvatores
Puerto Escondido

LA RECENSIONE

To find (or rediscover) oneself, one often needs to escape from oneself: sometimes you come to understand this on your own, other times you need someone to help you.

The protagonist of the film following the Oscar-winning "Mediterraneo" suddenly finds himself, forced by events, to escape from his false and falsely reassuring life, from the self dulled in his designer clothes, Rolex and Swatch, which he was just a moment before.

He will find himself (in every sense) in Mexico, in Puerto Escondido, without money; he will meet two fundamental characters for his evolution who will lead him to become a drug trafficker first, an anti-capitalist thief later, and a hero risking his life and freedom for a friend at the end.

He will face his fears and limitations, completely overturn his way of seeing things and life, go on psychedelic journeys with peyote, alone, in the desert: all to understand that just being able to look at the sky will make him feel alive and free, despite the gilded cage in which the civilized system had locked him up until just a short time ago.

"What damage will a system do to us that intoxicates us with artificial needs to make us forget our real needs? How can we measure the mutilations of the human soul?"

Eduardo Galeano

"With the poor people of the earth, I want to share my fate.."

from "Guantanamera"