dorrie seem to have mellow since men and nobody love me and both of which be fresh and delightfully uncharted water and passionately warm take on one of her overriding concern and theme and an exploration and advocacy of an existentialist philosophy of life . this time out and perhaps just for be another decade out post existentialism and her labyrinth of expatriate german adventurer in exotic spain ultimately feel oddly somewhat less fresh or less fully emotionally engage but nevertheless be a solid and intellectually engage new set of context and character through which to examine more turn of the die . a child captivate ear indoctrination into the myth which so easily lead u astray ( into false hope and then deception and then dry up go through the motion stub toed and danceless mere existence ) frame what be broad in scope in this film compare to the previous two represent there be no age or gender delimitation of focus here a we see random encounterers young and old and female and male and show their vulnerability to idealize vision which leave them flounder . through one particular child tale which begin and end the film and dorrie implicitly observe that it be in the story we be tell that our false expectation of life take root and here a tale about a tiger and a bear who conjure up a ballyhooed idyllic land to set their sail for a banana grow nirvana name panama . we adult know and wink wink and the folly of the tiger and bear and but we love such story and we crave expectation building story like an addiction and she seem to say . and thereby in childhood learn set the stage for evaluate the ensue adult venture toward their own mirage like horizon . so feed u story and doris represent . about a lost lover or two and a lost wife or two ( one mortally and another spiritually ) and a lost identity or two ( one intentionally and another accidentally ) and a lost fantasy or two . or a dozen . the title would have u ask to what extent these loss of illusion and of dreamed of perfection and impact our ability to see and feel true untrammeled pleasure in both ourselves ( be i beautiful . ) and in others ( can i delight in make another happy . to realize and throw off the layer of claptrap that keep me or u from cast onerous cognition to the wind and instead to indulge the heart and the moment from literally throw one possession out the window to indulge what might have be an offputting fetishist fantasy to sing out to engage the spirit of a foreign exotic spiritual procession and be willing to acknowledge in song one fear and quest ) . it not a new theme but it rework work and albeit keep u a bit at arm length from the subject and perhaps ( wittingly . ) to mirror the arm length from the fullness of engagement in life that be the nature of existence for her character until vary quiet epiphany open their path to new alternative way of perceiving . ( in some way and this medium be the message reflection on the chagrin of a life live at arm length parallel that of the more recent french film under the sand . ) a the path take by linda ( franka potente ) one of the young and central quester display and the search for the key to existential truth and to be here now and can too easily alight on answer > that look programmable and can lead to false god along the path and most unacceptably that of inauthenticity . just a linda learn that she can derail herself entirely if she be not honest or try to manipulate ( try to control others or their feeling with her bag of trick whilst live in disguise from and thus not own herself ) and so others learn how easy it be to kid themselves into think they have find the elusive peace or implicity which they perceive in an ostensibly uncomplicated lover who then prove suicidal and or other escapist plan which go awry . almost nothing be what it and he and or she seem until they learn to be vulnerable and self accepting and sentient and thereby empower . there lurk complexity and pain and just more buried in some than in others . there be no carefree panama banana republic and but there be pleasure in honesty of spirit . and the voice of this realization come in some curious package ( far flesh out the wisdom where you least expect it notion whose fascinating messenger in nobody love me be the voice of a marginalized and lovelorn but lovingly unselfish transvestite ) represent here an overweight chef who be blissfully marry to his young love sweetheart with a passion for her soul that know no parameter or criterion but be unabashedly unconditional and a spaniard who refuse to indulge his german girlfriend need to hear spurious pledge of eternal love and the errant husband or father who seize the moment to respectfully respond to linda until her deception force him to draw his line in the sand and thus startle her back to self acceptance and another errant husband or father whose caribbean indulgence have actualize his spirit of to dance be to live and who finally lure down the encrust wall behind which his wife have be take sullen refuge . here it be most often the woman who have internalize the childhood idyllic story to their peril and have sell themselves a flurry of fantasy that focus on the future or the past and who with well mean enchantment see heaven in a red cashmere sweater they sell or buy and a stereotypically fanciful wed gown and a notion of storybook romance and and who with considerable blindness stumble in seek their way back to themselves . but they do listen and and learn .