Mario is a young man committed to the music, with music, comes from the conservatory in Berlin, played the clarinet and wants enter the Philharmonic Santiago de Chile, not only to demonstrate his great talent, but because the pay is good, but still leave it in the waiting list and your income is not possible, that it frustrates and puts his claim, making it stop in the orchestra of the police.
Teresa is a psychologist who works with prostitutes, advised to make your job more hygienic and therefore more worthy. She is fully involved in their work and forget a little of his family, which is the only 15 year old daughter, who is pregnant but has only told his father, and this tells Teresa, his ex-wife. Attempting to remedy what he is not committed.
Edmundo is a middle-aged bachelor, works at a popular salon and plans to buy car, but his work barely enough to live and stay with her mother, who lives in the same house, seeking a bank loan to its desired ends car enrolling with the cashier that attended to him. Edmundo live with the weight of the memory of his late father, a simple man who gave his life for the people, so that everyone who went to him to leave with a good haircut, he was proud yet disappointed not want to end the same way. To make matters worse, the cemetery is cited for license renewal of his tomb, but as we know he has no money and leaves of burnt along with other bodies.
And finally we have to Patricia, a prostitute very ill, which survives the streets, looking for help, but not accepting it, because above all things she is proud, however with that is not enough.
These are the four stories that take place in 'The Good Life', latest film from Chilean director Andrés Wood, and all intersect, just a touch, a glance, a scream. As all lives intersect in this world. The lady I see TV news giving the offender that we see in the news, the stranger sitting next to us on the bus, the street vendor that offers its products, they all have their stories, their lives and we know that, or pretend to know. In The good life no one changes the course of the life of another, that is their own. The mother has to get his daughter back and accept that her ex-husband is sleeping with a prostitute, is a miserable. The barber must accept his manhood woes worker, break up with your partner, to recover his father's grave and bring joy to his mother until her last day. And the young musician must find his own destiny.
The good life while not going too deeply into the stories, we understand, we sympathize with the characters but we can not fully attuned to any of them are simply there and tell us their problems and nothing else the film is not intended to provide solutions or answers. Perhaps that was the aim of Wood, just tell us that like them we are also there, living and performing our stories and does not depend on anyone else how to culminate but ourselves, and that is the concept of having a good life . So in the end we know that what we saw was based on real events, although you say that was not necessary.
Andrés Wood fails to surprise with this film as he did with Machuca, we left the room with a tasteless, a story well told but not full, with an excellent picture but does not dazzle, but with good treatment that we do not keep them guessing. Wood pays the burden of being a great director, the audience we know and hope that the good life we \u200b\u200bmove the floor, catch us, but yet we are only touching the shoulder.
Carlos Fidel Intriago