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* AnAesop: The film's TagLine itself. Sometimes in life you end up with responsibilities you won't feel ready for, but for the sake of yourself and others it's best to accept it and do what's right, also because if you do so the sacrifices will bring great rewards, while if you refuse you may regret it forever. Both Maggie's parents felt unadequate to raise her when she was born, but their different decisions led them to experience these two aforementioned realities.
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* AnAesop: The film's TagLine itself. Sometimes in life you end up with responsibilities you won't don't feel ready for, but for the sake of yourself that's life, and others it's best to accept it and do what's right, also because if you do so do, the sacrifices will bring great rewards, be worth it, while if you refuse refuse, you may regret it forever. Both of Maggie's parents felt unadequate unfit to raise her when she was born, but their different decisions choices led them to experience these two aforementioned realities.
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* AnAesop: The film's TagLine itself. Sometimes in life you end up with responsibilities you won't feel ready for, but for the sake of yourself and others it's best to accept it and do what's right, also because if you do so the sacrifices will bring great rewards, while if you refuse you may regret it forever. Both Maggie's parents felt unadequate to raise her when she was born, but their different decisions led them to experience these two aforementioned realities.
** Valentin found himself with a baby to take care of when he barely knew how to take care of himself. However, after some hesitation, he accepted it and raised Maggie as best he could and this allowed him to grow as well. [[spoiler: In the end, not even the pain of losing her is enough to erase the wonderful memories of their life together, and this will allow him to go on with his life.]]
** Julie decided that she was not ready to be a mother, so she left Maggie and returned only when she had decided she was ready to make up for lost time [[spoiler: (i.e., after getting her life together AND finishing her studies, completed thanks in part to not having to care for the child)]]. In doing so, however, she missed the early years of her daughter's life [[spoiler: and then, even worse, it turned out that Maggie would die shortly after Julie's return, so the years with which she intended to make up for lost time would never come]].
** Valentin found himself with a baby to take care of when he barely knew how to take care of himself. However, after some hesitation, he accepted it and raised Maggie as best he could and this allowed him to grow as well. [[spoiler: In the end, not even the pain of losing her is enough to erase the wonderful memories of their life together, and this will allow him to go on with his life.]]
** Julie decided that she was not ready to be a mother, so she left Maggie and returned only when she had decided she was ready to make up for lost time [[spoiler: (i.e., after getting her life together AND finishing her studies, completed thanks in part to not having to care for the child)]]. In doing so, however, she missed the early years of her daughter's life [[spoiler: and then, even worse, it turned out that Maggie would die shortly after Julie's return, so the years with which she intended to make up for lost time would never come]].
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* ExactWords: Julie says that she wants Maggie to meet [[GenderNeutralWriting "someone"]]. Maggie and Valentin are surprised to see that Julie's partner is a woman.
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* ExactWords: Julie says that she wants Maggie to meet [[GenderNeutralWriting [[GenderConcealingWriting "someone"]]. Maggie and Valentin are surprised to see that Julie's partner is a woman.
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* DaddyDNATestDaddyDNATest: Shortly after Valentin wins full custody of Maggie, however, his victory is cut-short when Julie comes up with this strategy, [[spoiler:proving that Valentin ''isn't'' the father after all.]]
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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: When Maggie tells Valentin that she is being told by her classmates that her mom is like Santa Claus, he thinks she means it literally. Maggie corrects him, though, that it's ''actually'' because she's never seen her before.
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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: When ComicallyMissingThePoint:
**When Maggie tells Valentin that she is being told by her classmates that her mom is like Santa Claus, he thinks she means it literally. Maggie corrects him, though, that it's ''actually'' because she's never seen her before.
**Valentin and Maggie also don't get the neighbor's request to "fix her clog", clearly a discreet way to invite him for sex anytime he wants. More justified with Maggie because she's a kid.
**When Maggie tells Valentin that she is being told by her classmates that her mom is like Santa Claus, he thinks she means it literally. Maggie corrects him, though, that it's ''actually'' because she's never seen her before.
**Valentin and Maggie also don't get the neighbor's request to "fix her clog", clearly a discreet way to invite him for sex anytime he wants. More justified with Maggie because she's a kid.
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* {{Foreshadow}}: Although most of the clues at first suggest that [[spoiler:Valentin has a terminal illness]], there is one occasion when it is implied that [[spoiler:it is Maggie who is the one with health problems, because during Julie's first visit to Valentin and Maggie, the woman notices that when her daughter falls asleep, she does so rather quickly, seeming to literally shut down]].
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* SevenDeadlySins:
** Valentin (Sloth) who doesn't work for a living, initially, and is afraid of commitment. No wonder why he rejected one of the women who didn't see him just as a summer fling.
** Jackie (Lust), Valentin's sexy neighbor, uses the "fix the drain" euphemism as an excuse to see him.
** Renee (Pride/Wrath), Julie's girlfriend, for belittling Valetin's abilities to be a fit father for Maggie and behaves racist because he's Mexican, later yells at Frank while demanding his and Maggie's whereabouts.
** The senile landlord (Greed) of the apartment often pressures Valentin into paying the elevator maintenance bill.
** Julie (Envy) can hardly contain her jealousy over Maggie favoring Valentin over her despite the fact that it was her who left her under his care when she was too young to raise a child.
** Valentin (Sloth) who doesn't work for a living, initially, and is afraid of commitment. No wonder why he rejected one of the women who didn't see him just as a summer fling.
** Jackie (Lust), Valentin's sexy neighbor, uses the "fix the drain" euphemism as an excuse to see him.
** Renee (Pride/Wrath), Julie's girlfriend, for belittling Valetin's abilities to be a fit father for Maggie and behaves racist because he's Mexican, later yells at Frank while demanding his and Maggie's whereabouts.
** The senile landlord (Greed) of the apartment often pressures Valentin into paying the elevator maintenance bill.
** Julie (Envy) can hardly contain her jealousy over Maggie favoring Valentin over her despite the fact that it was her who left her under his care when she was too young to raise a child.
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* TheReveal: [[spoiler:It appears as though it's Valentin who has a terminal disease, when it was really Maggie.]]
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** [[spoiler:It appears as though it's Valentin who has a terminal disease, when it was really Maggie.]]
** [[spoiler:It appears as though it's Valentin who has a terminal disease, when it was really Maggie.]]
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* CallBack: In the beginning of the movie, Julie asks for money to go pay the cab driver, but doesn't come back. Years later, she doesn't have money for a cab and asks Valentin to lend her some again. There is LampshadeHanging.
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** In the beginning of the movie, Julie asks for money to go pay the cab driver, but doesn't come back. Years later, she doesn't have money for a cab and asks Valentin to lend her some again. There is LampshadeHanging.
** In the beginning of the movie, Julie asks for money to go pay the cab driver, but doesn't come back. Years later, she doesn't have money for a cab and asks Valentin to lend her some again. There is LampshadeHanging.
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* PapaWolf: Valentin, who is afraid of heights, jumped down 10 stories to save his daughter. When her mother comes back, he is critical of her and protective of Maggie, who he doesn't want to get hurt.
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* PapaWolf: PapaWolf:
** Valentin, who is afraid of heights, jumped down 10 stories to save his daughter. When her mother comes back, he is critical of her and protective of Maggie, who he doesn't want to get hurt.
** Valentin, who is afraid of heights, jumped down 10 stories to save his daughter. When her mother comes back, he is critical of her and protective of Maggie, who he doesn't want to get hurt.
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* ReallyGetsAround: Valentin in the beginning of the movie. Its implied Julie as well, since Valentin caught an STD from her. It foreshadows [[spoiler:Valentin not being Maggie's biological father.]]
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* ReallyGetsAround: Valentin in the beginning of the movie. Its It's implied Julie as well, since Valentin caught an STD from her. It foreshadows [[spoiler:Valentin not being Maggie's biological father.]]
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* CallingTheOldManOut[=/=]WhatTheHellHero: Maggie is furious when she finds out Valentin has been lying to her about her mother the whole time and yells at him.
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* CallingTheOldManOut[=/=]WhatTheHellHero: CallingTheOldManOut: Maggie is furious when she finds out Valentin has been lying to her about her mother the whole time and yells at him.
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* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: Creator/EugenioDerbez received lot of heat in Mexico for doing a Hollywood-style comedy film, rather than a tragedy, a thriller, or a drama, and from a Mexican point of view, it completely deviates from the actual kind of movies Mexican studios are doing, and as such, it gives an "erroneous" image of the country, [[spoiler:albeit the movie itself still sticks with the Mexican status quo somewhat by giving an BittersweetEnding]]. The difference here is [[spoiler:the ending happens due to a completely out-of-control situation, rather than something created just because the main character is Mexican]].
** Not really; all the criticism he got was because in Mexico, such films are mostly considered vanity projects (he writes, directs, produces and acts in the film) and they usually are ''very'' crappy; the film is a dramedy and "serious" - or at least, more serious than his past work for the past 20 or so years - and is sorts of him playing against type. To add insult to injury, he decided to market the movie more outside of the country so it's not "made for Mexicans", and unusually for a Mexican production he didn't hire or invite any of his past collaborators from his TV series, which is tantamount to treason. The reality of the situation is he looked forward to making a movie on the "American-style" precisely because he has been stuck in playing silly slapstick characters for the past 20 or so years, he knew the movie wouldn't do well in Mexico (though it ultimately DID) because the audience is used to seeing him as Ludovico Peluche and not as Eugenio Derbez. He's stuck in the same place Creator/JimCarrey was in the nineties, or more precisely, he's in his ''Film/AceVentura'' phase and trying to get into his ''[[Film/TheTrumanShow Truman Show]]'' phase.
** Not really; all the criticism he got was because in Mexico, such films are mostly considered vanity projects (he writes, directs, produces and acts in the film) and they usually are ''very'' crappy; the film is a dramedy and "serious" - or at least, more serious than his past work for the past 20 or so years - and is sorts of him playing against type. To add insult to injury, he decided to market the movie more outside of the country so it's not "made for Mexicans", and unusually for a Mexican production he didn't hire or invite any of his past collaborators from his TV series, which is tantamount to treason. The reality of the situation is he looked forward to making a movie on the "American-style" precisely because he has been stuck in playing silly slapstick characters for the past 20 or so years, he knew the movie wouldn't do well in Mexico (though it ultimately DID) because the audience is used to seeing him as Ludovico Peluche and not as Eugenio Derbez. He's stuck in the same place Creator/JimCarrey was in the nineties, or more precisely, he's in his ''Film/AceVentura'' phase and trying to get into his ''[[Film/TheTrumanShow Truman Show]]'' phase.
