Boy was I wrong on that account. I thoroughly enjoyed the movie and found a lot of symbolism and comedy in it.

The first scene of the movie was a shocker to me. I never thought that Rio was like that, especially at a train station. The sheer volume of people would be so overwhelming to me if I were there. What also surprised me was the fact that everyone seemed to be so overwhelmed with the hardships of life that they could still find a single blossom of hope in a retired teacher, Dora, the scrivener. In a place full of hatred and despair, Dora could bring hope and life. She is like a desert rose in the way that she lives in a harsh environment but can still grow to bring the landscape some sense of beauty and life. However, like every rose she had her thorns. This becomes apparent when she writes a letter for a lady and her son, Josue.

The letter she was supposed to send to Josue’s father she kept for reasons that I never really understood, maybe she didn’t feel Josue’s father, Jesus, deserved to know about his son because he was as Dora would call him a “drun

kard”, or maybe she was just protecting Josue because their fathers had a lot in common. Throughout the movie this becomes more evident and starts to take on a very subtle, but powerful outlook on religion in my viewpoint.

This outlook, while being some what hidden underneath layers of Josue’s stubborn belief in his father, rings through the enter movie and raises the question, “Can one survive in a harsh world on hope?”

When Dora and her young companion finally reach their overall destination, they have become so connected that one could see how much they depend on one another. Now at this part in the movie we meet two new people, Josue’s brothers Isaias and Moises. Now to me I saw these two as another parallel to religion, Isaias (Isaic) and Moises (Moses). Isaias doesn’t have faith that his father will come back, an unbeliever in religion, and Moises is like Josue in their belief that Jesus will come home someday..

Now with the Josue and Dora’s journey at an end, they have to go their separate ways. This part I thought was too sappy because they make Josue’s character seem like a mature adult when he is only a little boy. I did like however, that while it is apparent Josue’s jour

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