The weird girl

Hi there,

director speaking.

It's a character I created not at script level, but later when I ran castings. She appeared, and I found her so ...odd, and greatly odd that I wrote a part for her.
She is intended to be what the French call 'un acte manqué'.
To give you a simple example of this, it is like when a very important letter gets lost in the post and never arrives, changing everyone's lives forever, but no one is aware of it.
Well here, the girl is obviously following the boy, she knows about him. But, as incapable as all the other characters in the film at communicating properly, as incapable of showing her true feelings, she invents situations, rather than speaks plainly.
Of course every time we see her, the situation she is in could a reflection of what is happening to the boy, and later to her and the boy.
for instance, at the end, she has a 'sea' funeral for a dead insect, or 'bicho' as the spanish call them. 'Bicho raro' is also a term used for an odd person, in this case she refers to Jose Ramon, and says the 'bicho raro' died for not having any friends...
She is thus having the funeral of her own friendship with him. A lost friendship.
The boy, as all good future men, ...understands nothing of this subtlety, of her subtle attempts at friendship, goes off in a huff calling HER the 'bicho raro'.
Thus, yet another relationship is ruined due to incommunication and the inability to express sentiments.
Which is the theme of the film.