FREE ON CINEGEEK.DE The Man Who Copied

A friend once brought me a whole stack of Brazilian DVDs that you can't find on the Internet that easily. The Man Who Copied is the most borrowed comedy of all! It's the story of a simple copy shop employee who falls in love and therefore copies banknotes. Played by Lazaro Ramos, who carries this role with a lot of humor and verve. The center of a film that sometimes turns into comedy, then social drama and finally even into a thriller! All this in two hours - ambitious or somewhat out of joint(?). Our hero's name is Andre and he draws imaginary cartoons, but he can only find one job for which he can press the "Start" button of a copying machine. That earns him around 600 euros a month (times converted), for which Andre may not expect too much. His colleague, the sexy blonde Marinez (Luana Piovani), explains exactly what women want: Money to change your life! That's why she only dates a frustrated businessman (Pedro Cardoso). Andre, on the other hand, falls in love with Silvia (Leandra Leal), an ordinary girl from next door. He watches her, spys on her with his binoculars. But Andre does not find the courage to address Silvia. After all, it takes half the film to make their acquaintance and Andre copies the banknote for it. With success! No one knows its bloom! This may inspire the criminal energy in him, at least The Man Who Copied is now developing into a fantasy of bank robbery and murderous revenge... All this is commented with a dead serious voice from offstage and accompanied by numerous animations (and I'm sure they come from Andre!). By the way, we learn a lot about the depressive life in Porto Alegre, in the south of Brazil - luckily in time with an off-beat comedy that doesn't fall into the social drama too often. (transl. deepl.com)