« A poet » in verse and against everything – Liberation

A character. Oscar Restrepo (Ubeimar Rios) once won a prize for the best young Colombian poet, but has not written much of valid for a long time. When he drinks on the other hand, he embarks on furious soliloques, shouting on everyone and anyone his defense of José Asunción Silva, the poet of the 5,000 pesos note, against this sold of Gabriel García Márquez, who showed up on that of 50,000, before woken up lying on the ground. He has a mother with the hooks of whom he lives, a girl who no longer wants to deal with him. In short, no one can take it anymore.

While after a muscular intervention by his entourage, he tries to recover, by kissing sobriety and a job of high school teacher, he realizes that his young student Yurlady (Rebeca Andrade), 15, writes magnificent poems, and decides to push her to compete in turn at the price of Poeta Joven. But this yurlady, a sort of Will Hunting Ado of the popular districts of Medellín who does not care about everything, especially of glory, and just asks that we leave her in peace, does not allow himself so quickly to convince …

Launching with fury, in a resolved, quasi-operative way, in search of a form to the antipodes of formatted social naturalism that his argument could have required, A poet multiplies the gestures of cutting short (the plans, the scenes, the situations), pulling it by the pirouette, the joke or the provocation, in order to help as much as possible its two characters to escape