Que the 10star reviews (and many calling it "realistic"; like what aspect is realistic?)? If you remember the Dr. Kildare American TV series from the early 60s (the magical, incredibly handsome doctor (played by the wonderful actor, Richard Chamberlain) who got intimately involved in his patients' lives (but never sang to his patients, tg, although he could)), then this is the modern version, only worse and more unrealistic, if that is even possible. So outdated, saccharine, fantastical, and insulting to all sick people, but esp to cancer patients. The last cancer movie I saw where a terminal patient was perfectly healthy until she suddenly died was made in the late 80s (Six Weeks). With the frank looks at breasts and exams in the beginning, I thought it was going to be refreshingly realistic. But no, don't waste your time. But no, this movie shows how you can be deathly ill and only lose your hair, have lung cancer but never lose a breath, and so on and on, and ON.
I only watched it until the end because of the incredible charisma of Cruz and I also love Luis Tosar. But I can't believe this director and cast put up with such a banal and fantastical script. And I don't think it would have helped if I understood more Spanish. The script is so simple that even my 2yrs of high school Spanish could almost do without subtitles.
It's just insulting for the medical establishment, no matter where you live, and in this case, the public system, no less, to be portrayed as giving tranquilizers on the spot for bad news (how lovely!), having one singing gyno do EVERY surgery and procedure (would have been at least 5 specialists in the US) and making sure the beautiful Penelope jumps in line and always gets personal attention from him, even so far as coming to her house and on her VACATION to examine her! So, even portly, older women patients of his get this kind of treatment? Yeah, right. I mean, what planet are the people from who rated this over 4stars? And it is too many for them to be scam reviews. I bet 99% of them are old enough to fondly fantasize over Dr. Kildare. Yes, we all can have such a happy ever after as Magda, Dani, and Arturo did. Strange that Magda had NO, like NONE, NOT ONE friend, 1 family member, I guess, who we see for 15sec (or was that a vision of Arturo's dead wife?). Same for Arturo, who conveniently loses his wife and daughter so he can be with Magda and NOT TAX THE WRITERS ONE BIT. Just how young is Dani that he can't be told where babies come from and needs "put to bed" every night? The actor looks at least 12. Oh, oh, oh, and of course, according to soccer scout Arturo, Dani is going to be a pro soccer player when he grows up. Not to mention the fantasy of many boys of having a pro scout for his step-father. Why didn't they win the lottery, too? Perhaps celebrity and life everlasting, too... I think the writers slipped up on those counts. If the filmmaker was truly wanting to make a modern fairytale, then it could have been done, and so much better, but this is not it. Oh, yeah, Arturo was impotent, or *something*, but magically able to get Magda preggers the night he is suddenly cured of this? Or was he really that repulsed at her lack of two breasts as the writers made him out to be? What kind of a terrible message is that, esp after all the frank breasts talk. I am just so irritated and will never watch such a highly rated film again without looking at the negative reviews, which would have told me the truth. I hope my review steers at least one person clear of this ridiculous excuse for a modern film. At LEAST they didn't get all religious, too. But then I would have turned it right off, so perhaps it would have been better!
I only watched it until the end because of the incredible charisma of Cruz and I also love Luis Tosar. But I can't believe this director and cast put up with such a banal and fantastical script. And I don't think it would have helped if I understood more Spanish. The script is so simple that even my 2yrs of high school Spanish could almost do without subtitles.
It's just insulting for the medical establishment, no matter where you live, and in this case, the public system, no less, to be portrayed as giving tranquilizers on the spot for bad news (how lovely!), having one singing gyno do EVERY surgery and procedure (would have been at least 5 specialists in the US) and making sure the beautiful Penelope jumps in line and always gets personal attention from him, even so far as coming to her house and on her VACATION to examine her! So, even portly, older women patients of his get this kind of treatment? Yeah, right. I mean, what planet are the people from who rated this over 4stars? And it is too many for them to be scam reviews. I bet 99% of them are old enough to fondly fantasize over Dr. Kildare. Yes, we all can have such a happy ever after as Magda, Dani, and Arturo did. Strange that Magda had NO, like NONE, NOT ONE friend, 1 family member, I guess, who we see for 15sec (or was that a vision of Arturo's dead wife?). Same for Arturo, who conveniently loses his wife and daughter so he can be with Magda and NOT TAX THE WRITERS ONE BIT. Just how young is Dani that he can't be told where babies come from and needs "put to bed" every night? The actor looks at least 12. Oh, oh, oh, and of course, according to soccer scout Arturo, Dani is going to be a pro soccer player when he grows up. Not to mention the fantasy of many boys of having a pro scout for his step-father. Why didn't they win the lottery, too? Perhaps celebrity and life everlasting, too... I think the writers slipped up on those counts. If the filmmaker was truly wanting to make a modern fairytale, then it could have been done, and so much better, but this is not it. Oh, yeah, Arturo was impotent, or *something*, but magically able to get Magda preggers the night he is suddenly cured of this? Or was he really that repulsed at her lack of two breasts as the writers made him out to be? What kind of a terrible message is that, esp after all the frank breasts talk. I am just so irritated and will never watch such a highly rated film again without looking at the negative reviews, which would have told me the truth. I hope my review steers at least one person clear of this ridiculous excuse for a modern film. At LEAST they didn't get all religious, too. But then I would have turned it right off, so perhaps it would have been better!