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Bernard Campbell, a well-known and unscrupulous
behavior therapist from glamorous Miami Beach comes
up with the absurd idea of organizing a psychological
retreat to study and speculate with his patients about
the similarities and differences, if any, between the
American and Hispanic cultures and to evaluate if we
are on the verge of conforming a new society populated
by Americanized Latinos or vice versa.
He gathers twelve enigmatic elements, six women and
six men, half of them pure bred Americans and half
of them recent Hispanic immigrants, to observe them
as they interact and share life experiences in a dynamic
session of fifteen hours. From the beginning, both sides
clash in confrontations mostly inspired by basic human
small-mindedness that have very little to do with their
ethnic backgrounds.
The therapist manages to come up with an unexplainable
hoax to keep them prisoners for an uncertain period of time.
At the impossibility of leaving the premises, their highest
and lowest virtues collide and they disconnect from each
other in micro communities. They learn that when they
judge other people, there is no time left to love them and
the reason why compassion is so unpopular and
discrimination so fashionable.
Cuckoo Heart is a farce, sometimes hilarious others
dramatic, about human behavior, tolerance, sex and
selfishness; coming to prove that we are all very much
alike and differences are not such. We are always willing
to mate and always willing to kill.
behavior therapist from glamorous Miami Beach comes
up with the absurd idea of organizing a psychological
retreat to study and speculate with his patients about
the similarities and differences, if any, between the
American and Hispanic cultures and to evaluate if we
are on the verge of conforming a new society populated
by Americanized Latinos or vice versa.
He gathers twelve enigmatic elements, six women and
six men, half of them pure bred Americans and half
of them recent Hispanic immigrants, to observe them
as they interact and share life experiences in a dynamic
session of fifteen hours. From the beginning, both sides
clash in confrontations mostly inspired by basic human
small-mindedness that have very little to do with their
ethnic backgrounds.
The therapist manages to come up with an unexplainable
hoax to keep them prisoners for an uncertain period of time.
At the impossibility of leaving the premises, their highest
and lowest virtues collide and they disconnect from each
other in micro communities. They learn that when they
judge other people, there is no time left to love them and
the reason why compassion is so unpopular and
discrimination so fashionable.
Cuckoo Heart is a farce, sometimes hilarious others
dramatic, about human behavior, tolerance, sex and
selfishness; coming to prove that we are all very much
alike and differences are not such. We are always willing
to mate and always willing to kill.
