Biutiful



Biutiful is a Mexican-Spanish movie directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu (who also directed Amores Perros, Twenty One Grams and Babel). Starring Javier Bardem as a lead.


 * Abusive Mother striving to be good
 * Adult Fear: Who will care for the children after Uxbals' death?
 * The Atoner: Uxbal tries, and fails
 * Crapsack World: the portrayal of Barcelona
 * Damn, It Feels Good to Be a Gangster!: No, it really doesn't. Uxbal is heavily involved with lots of different types of criminals, and his life is absolutely terrible.
 * Hero with an F In Good
 * How We Got Here
 * I See Dead People: A whole family of them
 * It Got Worse and worse, and worse
 * Magic Realism
 * Mood Swinger: Marambra, for obvious reasons
 * My God, What Have I Done?: The carbon monoxide poisoning of the immigrant workers
 * Invisible to Gaydar
 * Tear Jerker: The Movie.
 * Tragic Hero: Uxbal
 * Ungrateful Bastard: Uxbal gets no gratitude for passing on the dead's messages, although to be fair, the people he's talking to might assume he's a fake, or be speaking out of pain.