Cada Cabeza Es Un Mundo

Rating: 8/10 (19 January 2014)

Cada cabeza es un mundo -- Each head is a world -- . Just finished watching this film, literally 20 minutes ago . I shut down my computer while the credits were still running, threw on my clothes and walked with Purpose on Playoff, football Sunday to a local watering hole with Wifi, to sip on a beer while I write down my thoughts on this fantastic film. The story of the short circuiting of human emotions painted in this film has filled me with adrenaline. My heart is beating as if I just sprinted, my hands are trembling a little. The spectrum of scenarios that triggered emotional meltdowns in nearly every character of this great cast could not have been more authentic. Delusional relationships, a song, gambling, obsessiveness, inappropriateness, hyperactivity, loss, sex, love, arrogance, zero filter.
There was an innocence in the flow of the dialogue. There was understanding, suspicion, awkwardness. Whether good or bad, the consequences related to the perception or delusion of not being understood struck me like a 90 mile hour fast ball in the ribs.
No one goes through life without being misunderstood on occasion, the problem is that some folks live with the delusion of being misunderstood all the time. The surfacing of not being in control of your feelings is what makes living interesting and of course dangerous as well.
Who doesn't want to be consumed with love?? I can understand breaking in to a fight for my brother. I'd show, or at least try ( I'd probably fail ) at controlling my hormones for a dancing partner as fine as Jennifer Lawrence for a woman I still Love. I can understand trying to control my hormones for that woman I still Love and the delusion of her loving me back. A woman, my wife of nearly a decade who I caught cheating on me with a colleague, in my house, with our wedding song playing in the back-ground. I'd confuse my fathers love for his very apparent obsessive compulsiveness. I'd understand my friends obsession with his haircut and his rain man knowledge of the Law. My other buddies over-worked, loveless marriage that hates his job. A marriage with an overbearing controlling wife, newly minted with a baby, a mortgage. The stress and craziness, on the cusp of having a nervous breakdown you hear in the rants he only reveals to you.
This cast was colorful. Chris Tucker and John Ortiz gave wonderful performances ! Robert Di Nero was completely effortless and his partner in crime Paul Herman, one of my favorite Soprano characters was a perfect compliment. Jackie Weaver was great. Bradley Cooper has earned a fan for life.
Clearly, really, really loved this film !
TOMA!