I hated this film, my reasons to it...

Totally agree, Also the grocery store girl really annoyed me, she acted like hell. In general I found it boring and predictable,
it was like a *beep* telenovela episode with a big budget.

Wow, great analysis of a film. You seem like a serious student of film and/or literature. I am too but I was able to enjoy this film. In fact, I loved it, I'd say probably for the same reasons you hated it. I saw it more as a "fairy tale," i.e., an unrealistic story, with happy outcomes that rarely happen in real life. What a novelty it was to watch a story like this, in which the hero achieves his dream and some really pleasant/nice things happen along the way.

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You're entitled to your view, but I don't understand some of your complaints.

- "Ramón doesn´t learn the most basic words in german." Yes he does. Towards the end, he clearly speaks a bit of German ("Danke", "Frau Ruth"). It just takes him a while.

- "He was more worried to make his burritos and live like he did when in Mexico instead of exploring his new environment." - Well he finally got a place where he could cook. He only did what he knew and what he was good at. Perhaps if he actually took a cooking class (which I thought would have been an interesting idea in the movie, eventually, since he could start working in a restaurant, for example) he would learn other ways to cook. In any case, making the burritos was actually an important plot element since it brought him closer to Ruth, leading to one of the best scenes in the movie in my opinion, where they talk to each other and open up their hearts without understanding anything what the other says.

- "...she doesn´t teach him the language, yeah we get a scene or two of her teaching him some word, but...really? If she cared for him so much he couldn´t teach him better?" I think she taught him what she thought was necessary at the time. Note that he actually practised his language lessons at the shopkeeper. It wasn't shown in the movie but it was mentioned.

- I actually don't have a problem with the brothel scene, it was pretty funny after all and it would take a long time to learn sufficient German to start dating local girls. Obviously, Ruth saw what she thought was obviously a more pressing need for a young sexually frustrated man. I think people can disagree on whether or not it was morally right but I don't think we need to go into that. You're right though that it didn't have plot development, instead it was a short but funny subplot which most people in my cinema enjoyed.

- "he doesn´t do anything to alert Ruth when he is captured by the police" - In my opinion it wasn't possible, one can assume that they immediately took him away without him being able to enter the building. I don't know how deportation works, if one can make phone calls in this case.

- "his character is still the narrow minded little town mexican boy as we found by the beginning of the movie." - To be fair, he doesn't dramatically change his character, which would be odd anyway - he's still just a young man. However his life was touched by the kindness of Frau Ruth and the experiences that he had in Germany - that much was clear.

Your comment on the possibility of Ramon becoming an illustrator is interesting, as I thought that eventually he could make a living out of cooking lessons or working in a restaurant, or opening a dance school. Any of these would have been a distinct possibility. However I do think that returning to Mexico (if even forced) and using his experiences and financial support from Ruth to make a difference in the lives of his family and community possibly makes a stronger statement of looking after and cherishing your roots. It's not about leaving everything behind for a better future, it's about going out there and building up experience and using that to uplift the place where you come from.

I totally agree with you with a great exception. You are viewing the movie in a total different way that the director intended too, which is very good actually.

The director of the movie wanted to expose the reason of why young people leave their places of origin and how a lot of them do not break up with their roots, instead they always dream on coming back with their people. Lets not forget that he only was in Germany for a few weeks, it is not mentioned, but when he leaves Mexico, it's winter and he gets back still in winter, there is practically impossible to develop yourself into an Illustrator, a Cook or even a Dance Teacher in such a short period of time.

He did catch a few and practice german words, Ruth and the store attendee mentioned.

However the way you analyze the movie is great, because it means that there is still room to continue the story of Ramon, which I doubt it will continue.

All that and more: I could not help but think: Couldn't they have purchased a German-Spanish dictionary? A rudimentary form of communication could have been established much better than through drawings.

The music professor spoke Italian, fairly understandable to a Spanish speaker. Yet, Ramon could not understand the simplest of constructions.

And how did 1000 Euros became 1 million pesos? The math is wrong.

And why would Ruth send him the money? I understand giving him a second hand jacket and helping him with 10 euros here, 20 euros there, but that much? In my experience, retired people live on a limited budget, but this windfall makes it look like Ruth was loaded -not unthinkable, but never really shown, so it looks contrived-.

Oh, and the dancing (never mind that Ramon looks like an idiot) but if he's from a small town in Mexico, he is shown dancing Merengue, which is a music with origins in the Caribbean.

I agree, goodbye Ramon. Nice try.

I watched this last night and liked it. It was somewhat trite and simplistic in places but this was offset by the great music, charm of the actors and the beautiful cinematography. In the posts here for this subject are complaints about lapses in the story and how it could have been better and so on BUT some of the complaints were from people who missed the point of the film (including the original poster) or misunderstood the film or who just flat out missed what was happening. I love the poster here who asks why they just didn't get a German-Spanish dictionary to aid in communication while missing the scene at the end on the phone where they were clearly using some publication in front of them to try and talk with Ramon. And BTW in most countries there is no "due process" if you are an "illegal" picked up by the authorities....you get no rights, no phone calls and you get an immediate exit from the country back to where you came from. This is not true of the US however....if you make it into this country you do get "due process" but if you get caught at the border you are sent back with no recourse. Also, all the critics here of how this story unfolded missed the point that he was only in Germany for a short time....how much could anybody learn about Germans and Gernany in a few short weeks? Certainly not the language!

Finally.....lighten up, it's only a movie AND it was pretty entertaining. Isn't that the main objective of a movie? Don't let YOUR politics define someone else's movie!!

Sounds like a lot of whining that you're putting out there.

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