What was the point of the last reel of this movie, set in Miami? It really did not seem to serve any purpose, other than just showing his continuing fall. Rather disjointed, I thought, and a poor ending to an otherwise okay movie.
To me it just showed the tide had turned. Now dependent on Ana or anyone for the first time. And Ana was not going to go for it. She was independent of him. There was no way to make restitution to his former lovers and wife and all was lost. Other than jumping out a window what can you do in such a helpless situation but sit and cry....
After thinking about the ending I just couldnt come up with any really good way to end it. So it worked as is to me.
btw...the version I saw was edited down to 1:28 minutes instead of the listed 1:35 version. I'm sure I lost a lot of info that would have made the film more enjoyable.
You really missed the point of the last act, mate. Isn't it?
The movie is basically a parody on machismo. Hence the title "Huevos de oro". Benito is an uncultured dude with only one "quality": women loves him. He ain't precisely the smartest folk in town but he has the will to succeed at all costs, using his charms to use women.
In the middle of the movie he achieves the "golden dream" of any (almost any) average Joe: To get rich and to have sex with two gorgeous women at the same time.
Miami sequence represents the opposite, and that's the irony. Benito, the man who achieved his temporary success thanks to his "huevos", now feels useless because he's impotent. He has to witness how a women uses him as he used women before. Worse than that: he has to see how his friend (a gardener) screws his girl in front of him, and she pays him 100 bucks for that! 100 bucks that came from Benito's pockets! ahaha That's irony!
From a Golden Dream to a Pathetic Reality.
That's the point of Miami sequence.
Does the film also suggest that neither Melilla nor Benidorm are among the first places most Spanish people would choose but Miami could well be the last?
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