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* AgeGapRomance: It isn't as absurd as some examples of this trope, but still, Santiago is dating a woman who looks to be 20-odd years younger than he is.[[note]]Tommy Muñiz was born in 1922; Gladys Rodriguez was born in 1943[[\note]]
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* AgeGapRomance: It isn't as absurd as some examples of this trope, but still, Santiago is dating a woman who looks to be 20-odd years younger than he is.[[note]]Tommy Muñiz was born in 1922; Gladys Rodriguez was born in 1943[[\note]]1943[[/note]]
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** However at the end the detective tells Santiago Angelina's backstory, which is weird and shocking but also very non-supernatural: she got knocked up as a teenager, her abusive father forced her to give up the baby, she shot her abusive father, she spent time in mental institutions, her real name is Lena. Santiago even remembers the case which was quite a scandal. It seems that the real ghost in the film is Santiago's wife, and it's implied that his wife matched Santiago and Lena up. The last scene has the whole family enjoying some domestic happiness at Angelina's house, while the ghost of Santiago's wife looks on with satisfaction.
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** However at the end the detective tells Santiago Angelina's backstory, which is weird and shocking but also very non-supernatural: she got knocked up as a teenager, her abusive father forced her to give up the baby, she shot her abusive father, she spent time in mental institutions, her real name is Lena. Santiago even remembers the case case, which was quite a scandal. It seems that the real ghost in the film is Santiago's wife, and it's implied that his wife matched Santiago and Lena up. The last scene has the whole family enjoying some domestic happiness at Angelina's house, while the ghost of Santiago's wife looks on with satisfaction.
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* AgeGapRomance: It isn't as absurd as some examples of this trope, but still, Santiago is dating a woman who looks to be 20-odd years younger than he is.
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* AgeGapRomance: It isn't as absurd as some examples of this trope, but still, Santiago is dating a woman who looks to be 20-odd years younger than he is.[[note]]Tommy Muñiz was born in 1922; Gladys Rodriguez was born in 1943[[\note]]
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* {{Surrealism}}: Five times, count 'em, five times, a nun carrying a lamb walks through the scene. What does it mean? Who knows?
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''What Happened to Santiago'' (Lo que le Pasó a Santiago) is a 1989 film from Puerto Rico directed by Creator/Jacobo Morales.
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''What Happened to Santiago'' (Lo que le Pasó a Santiago) is a 1989 film from Puerto Rico directed by Creator/Jacobo Morales.
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''What Happened to Santiago'' (Lo que le Pasó a Santiago) is a 1989 film from Puerto Rico directed by Jacobo Morales.
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''What Happened to Santiago'' (Lo que le Pasó a Santiago) is a 1989 film from Puerto Rico directed by Jacobo Creator/Jacobo Morales.
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* TheStinger: A post-credits scene shows the crew of the movie getting out of a truck, with a caption stating the film was an all-Puerto Rico production.
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* StealthInsult: Santiago, who is an extremely RelucantRetiree, ReluctantRetiree, tells the guest at his dinner that his experiences with them allows him to "remember you as you deserve." There's a {{Beat}} before everybody decides to applause.
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''What Happened to Santiago'' (Lo que le Pasó a Santiago) is a 1989 film from Puerto Rico directed by Jacobo Morales.
Santiago is an accountant who, upon turning 65, is forced into retirement from a corporation. At loose ends and with a lot of time to fill now that he isn't working, he turns his attention to his family. Daughter Nereida is in the middle of a nasty divorce from her husband which is having an ill effect on their little son Jerry. Santiago winds up taking care of his grandson quite a bit. His son Eddie has suffered some mental health problems and is in a hospital; Santiago takes Eddie out of the hospital in part because now that he's retired he can't afford it anymore.
One day while sitting in the park (because he's retired and has nothing to do), Santiago, a widower, meets a lady named Angelina. Angelina, an attractive woman approximately 20 years younger than he, takes an interest in Santiago, but she is reluctant to tell him her phone number or her address or even her last name. Santiago and Angelina fall in love, even as he continues to wonder about her mysterious past.
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!!Tropes:
* AgeGapRomance: It isn't as absurd as some examples of this trope, but still, Santiago is dating a woman who looks to be 20-odd years younger than he is.
* AsideGlance: One odd moment has Santiago sitting idly on a bench when a shootout between a thief and some cops erupts around him: the thief actually stands right next to Santiago (and behind a statue) while exchanging gunfire. After the thief runs off Santiago looks at the camera with a "WTF?" look on his face.
* CallBack: As Santiago is taking Eddie out of the mental institution he asks "What about your guitar?" and is upset to hear that Eddie gave it away. At some point Santiago apparently got it back, because when Eddie's taking him out of the hospital near the end he says "What about your guitar?" and pulls it out of a closet.
* CockADoodleDawn: The rural nature of the lovely estate where Angelina lives is shown by the sound of a rooster somewhere crowing the dawn.
* CreatorCameo: Jacobo Morales has a small part as Aristides Esquilín, the private eye that Santiago hires to find out information about Angelina.
* DisturbedDoves: The jackhammer of some workers apparently constructing a tomb disturbs Santiago's visit to his wife's grave, and it also disturbs the pigeons, who fly off theatrically.
* EightiesHair: Angelina has a pretty spectacular example of 1980s poofy hair.
* {{Flashback}}: Santiago has a memory of his wife, when they were both young, telling him that she hoped she'd die first because he's better able to take care of himself.
* GraveMarkingScene: Santiago goes to visit the grave of his wife, dead several years. This is apparently a regular thing, as he's irritated when Nereida says she's busy and can't make it.
* IncurableCoughOfDeath: After getting caught out in the rain Santiago gets a cough. He blows off Eddie when Eddie gets worried. Naturally he gets double pneumonia. Subverted in the end when he recovers.
* InnerMonologue: Periodically from Santiago. In the opening scene at the retirement dinner he is acting polite but in InnerMonologue he's seething about being forced into retirement. Later, in a tense dinner scene with Nereida where he carps at her about her parenting choices, his inner monologue wonders why he can't just let things go.
* IronicJuxtaposition: Santiago, still fuming about being forced into retirement, tries to console himself, thinking that there's lots he can do. This is immediately followed by Santiago having to stop his car to let a funeral pass.
* ManicPixieDreamGirl: A mild example. Angelina is sexy and passionate and seems strangely devoted to cheering up a bald, pot-bellied old man 20 years her senior. She's intentionally mysterious, she has madcap ideas like how they should just limit their relationship to chance meetings in the park, and she even suggests that she might be a ghost. In classic MPDG style she seems to have no inner life, until the end where the private eye reveals her whole very complicated back story.
* MassageOfLove: Santiago is chilly after getting caught in the rain with Angelina. She suggests she give him a rubdown with oil. Then she suggests he take off his clothes. Then she suggests they move to the bed. Sex follows.
* OldFashionedRowboatDate: Santiago and Angelina do this as part of their courtship.
* OminousFog: Some scenes which suggest that Angelina might actually be a ghost have her wandering around her home, which is wreathed in OminousFog and lit spookily.
* OurGhostsAreDifferent
** After they have sex for the first time Angelina tells Santiago not to open his eyes, because if he does he'll see that she is a ghost. There are moments in the movie which follow up on that and suggest that maybe she is a ghost. Santiago has dreams of his wife in a country house, then is surprised when he goes to Angelina's place and finds that it's the house from his dreams. There are also a couple of scenes where Angelina is shown wandering around her house alone, with the house looking like the set from the "Music/TotalEclipseOfTheHeart" video--OminousFog, spooky music, spooky {{Chiaroscuro}} mood lighting.
** However at the end the detective tells Santiago Angelina's backstory, which is weird and shocking but also very non-supernatural: she got knocked up as a teenager, her abusive father forced her to give up the baby, she shot her abusive father, she spent time in mental institutions, her real name is Lena. Santiago even remembers the case which was quite a scandal. It seems that the real ghost in the film is Santiago's wife, and it's implied that his wife matched Santiago and Lena up. The last scene has the whole family enjoying some domestic happiness at Angelina's house, while the ghost of Santiago's wife looks on with satisfaction.
* ThePowerOfLove: It motivates the ghost of Santiago's wife to find him a new companion, Angelina, and match them up.
* ReluctantRetiree: The first scene has Santiago at his retirement dinner, fuming about being forced to retire and thinking how it will eventually happen to everyone else there. Later he applies for an accounting job at another company but is brusquely dismissed. Eventually he takes a part-time job as a security guard.
* RomanticRain: Angelina and Santiago's first kiss is immediately followed by thunder and rain. The rain is then followed by the two of them having sex after getting out of soaked clothes.
* SexyDiscretionShot: A rather over-the-top sexy discretion shot has the film cut to a WhiteStallion snorting and charging in the front yard as Angelina and Santiago have sex inside.
* StealthInsult: Santiago, who is an extremely RelucantRetiree, tells the guest at his dinner that his experiences with them allows him to "remember you as you deserve." There's a {{Beat}} before everybody decides to applause.
* {{Surrealism}}: Five times, count 'em, five times, a nun carrying a lamb walks through the scene. What does it mean? Who knows?
Santiago is an accountant who, upon turning 65, is forced into retirement from a corporation. At loose ends and with a lot of time to fill now that he isn't working, he turns his attention to his family. Daughter Nereida is in the middle of a nasty divorce from her husband which is having an ill effect on their little son Jerry. Santiago winds up taking care of his grandson quite a bit. His son Eddie has suffered some mental health problems and is in a hospital; Santiago takes Eddie out of the hospital in part because now that he's retired he can't afford it anymore.
One day while sitting in the park (because he's retired and has nothing to do), Santiago, a widower, meets a lady named Angelina. Angelina, an attractive woman approximately 20 years younger than he, takes an interest in Santiago, but she is reluctant to tell him her phone number or her address or even her last name. Santiago and Angelina fall in love, even as he continues to wonder about her mysterious past.
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!!Tropes:
* AgeGapRomance: It isn't as absurd as some examples of this trope, but still, Santiago is dating a woman who looks to be 20-odd years younger than he is.
* AsideGlance: One odd moment has Santiago sitting idly on a bench when a shootout between a thief and some cops erupts around him: the thief actually stands right next to Santiago (and behind a statue) while exchanging gunfire. After the thief runs off Santiago looks at the camera with a "WTF?" look on his face.
* CallBack: As Santiago is taking Eddie out of the mental institution he asks "What about your guitar?" and is upset to hear that Eddie gave it away. At some point Santiago apparently got it back, because when Eddie's taking him out of the hospital near the end he says "What about your guitar?" and pulls it out of a closet.
* CockADoodleDawn: The rural nature of the lovely estate where Angelina lives is shown by the sound of a rooster somewhere crowing the dawn.
* CreatorCameo: Jacobo Morales has a small part as Aristides Esquilín, the private eye that Santiago hires to find out information about Angelina.
* DisturbedDoves: The jackhammer of some workers apparently constructing a tomb disturbs Santiago's visit to his wife's grave, and it also disturbs the pigeons, who fly off theatrically.
* EightiesHair: Angelina has a pretty spectacular example of 1980s poofy hair.
* {{Flashback}}: Santiago has a memory of his wife, when they were both young, telling him that she hoped she'd die first because he's better able to take care of himself.
* GraveMarkingScene: Santiago goes to visit the grave of his wife, dead several years. This is apparently a regular thing, as he's irritated when Nereida says she's busy and can't make it.
* IncurableCoughOfDeath: After getting caught out in the rain Santiago gets a cough. He blows off Eddie when Eddie gets worried. Naturally he gets double pneumonia. Subverted in the end when he recovers.
* InnerMonologue: Periodically from Santiago. In the opening scene at the retirement dinner he is acting polite but in InnerMonologue he's seething about being forced into retirement. Later, in a tense dinner scene with Nereida where he carps at her about her parenting choices, his inner monologue wonders why he can't just let things go.
* IronicJuxtaposition: Santiago, still fuming about being forced into retirement, tries to console himself, thinking that there's lots he can do. This is immediately followed by Santiago having to stop his car to let a funeral pass.
* ManicPixieDreamGirl: A mild example. Angelina is sexy and passionate and seems strangely devoted to cheering up a bald, pot-bellied old man 20 years her senior. She's intentionally mysterious, she has madcap ideas like how they should just limit their relationship to chance meetings in the park, and she even suggests that she might be a ghost. In classic MPDG style she seems to have no inner life, until the end where the private eye reveals her whole very complicated back story.
* MassageOfLove: Santiago is chilly after getting caught in the rain with Angelina. She suggests she give him a rubdown with oil. Then she suggests he take off his clothes. Then she suggests they move to the bed. Sex follows.
* OldFashionedRowboatDate: Santiago and Angelina do this as part of their courtship.
* OminousFog: Some scenes which suggest that Angelina might actually be a ghost have her wandering around her home, which is wreathed in OminousFog and lit spookily.
* OurGhostsAreDifferent
** After they have sex for the first time Angelina tells Santiago not to open his eyes, because if he does he'll see that she is a ghost. There are moments in the movie which follow up on that and suggest that maybe she is a ghost. Santiago has dreams of his wife in a country house, then is surprised when he goes to Angelina's place and finds that it's the house from his dreams. There are also a couple of scenes where Angelina is shown wandering around her house alone, with the house looking like the set from the "Music/TotalEclipseOfTheHeart" video--OminousFog, spooky music, spooky {{Chiaroscuro}} mood lighting.
** However at the end the detective tells Santiago Angelina's backstory, which is weird and shocking but also very non-supernatural: she got knocked up as a teenager, her abusive father forced her to give up the baby, she shot her abusive father, she spent time in mental institutions, her real name is Lena. Santiago even remembers the case which was quite a scandal. It seems that the real ghost in the film is Santiago's wife, and it's implied that his wife matched Santiago and Lena up. The last scene has the whole family enjoying some domestic happiness at Angelina's house, while the ghost of Santiago's wife looks on with satisfaction.
* ThePowerOfLove: It motivates the ghost of Santiago's wife to find him a new companion, Angelina, and match them up.
* ReluctantRetiree: The first scene has Santiago at his retirement dinner, fuming about being forced to retire and thinking how it will eventually happen to everyone else there. Later he applies for an accounting job at another company but is brusquely dismissed. Eventually he takes a part-time job as a security guard.
* RomanticRain: Angelina and Santiago's first kiss is immediately followed by thunder and rain. The rain is then followed by the two of them having sex after getting out of soaked clothes.
* SexyDiscretionShot: A rather over-the-top sexy discretion shot has the film cut to a WhiteStallion snorting and charging in the front yard as Angelina and Santiago have sex inside.
* StealthInsult: Santiago, who is an extremely RelucantRetiree, tells the guest at his dinner that his experiences with them allows him to "remember you as you deserve." There's a {{Beat}} before everybody decides to applause.
* {{Surrealism}}: Five times, count 'em, five times, a nun carrying a lamb walks through the scene. What does it mean? Who knows?
