Paula’s Films Blog

Fourth floor is a film based on a group of guys called “los pelaos”. The main character Miguel Angel, represented by Juan José Ballesta, is entered in this hospital along with other guys: Dani, Izan and Jorge, because they have cancer in their legs, which had made them lose one of their legs because it had to be amputated. Even having this disease, these four guys continue doing things that make them see every day a little more comfortable despite his illness, things that make them smile, such as basketball, trips by the hospital at night, see a pretty girl … each of the characters live this situation in a different way, for example Dani, who knows his first love, and Jorge, who lives with the pain of waiting the test results to determinate if he has cancer or not. Fourth floor hasn’t got a final, simple life goes on …

This is a film that tells the life of a peculiar guy: Benjamin Button. Since his birth, Benjamin has a special feature compared to other people: he born like a old boy. Just born, his father got rid of him, leaving him in a nursing home. As Benjamin grew rejuvenates his body, which produces a contradiction with his environment. Benjamin has the body of an elderly man with the inexperience of a child. During this learning time is marked by a number of adventures. Thanks to a Marine knows the sex and travel the world. Destined to the north of Russia has his first love adventure, and there became a war hero accidentally. Returning to his hometown, New Orleans, the environment which he grew up has changed, but found a love child who he thought he had lost forever. From this moment, the film tells the meeting of the couple until they finally live together. Both have reached the same age at the same time but when they have children Benjamin realizes that he can’t be a good father to them because he goes back physically and mentally. He decides to leave his family and, over the years, his partner forms another family. At the end of the movie when Benjamin is only a child his partner will take care of him until his dead, when he end because of senile dementia.