How much misery can a 13 year-old boy take? A lot. Jaime lives in the city of Porto with his mum, two younger sisters and his mum's friend. His father lives in some kind of warehouse and mainly stays in bed, depressed as he is. Jaime is a normal kid during daytime, but at night he goes out and does all kinds of jobs in order to earn enough money to buy his dad a motorbike. Sometimes alone, but most times with his friend Ulisses.
Jaime stays away from school more often which gets him into problems with the school inspector. That's not the only problem he has to face: his mum's friend finds his money and takes it and Jaime decides to run away from home. His dad then hangs himself and Jaime is the one that finds his body first. And Ulisses gets hurt during work and dies as a result. Jaime is left all alone by all people that mean something to him. Only one left: his mum. He returns home, finds him mum seriously ill, but she recovers and Jaime gets himself an acceptable job without too many risks. And finally he feels good.
It took a lot of time to find a copy of this movie but I am glad that I finally did. Unfortunately no subtitles so I am sure that I missed a lot of the conversations. But all in all I think that this movie is very well done a really interesting. Good acting by Saúl Fonseca (Jaime) and Sandro Silva (Ulisses). For both this is the only movie they made, unfortunately. Nice scenery, Porto is a beautiful city...
The last scene is very touching: Jaime who rides his (selfearned) motorbike through the streets of Porto; Nina Simone in the background singing Feeling Good:
Its a new dawn, its a new day, its a new life for me
yeah, its a new dawn its a new day its a new life for me
AND I'M FEELING GOOD
Yep.... I felt good too after watching this movie....
'soles' :cwm39: