Eugenio Derbez In The Film Under The Same Moon

One life changing event can change anyone’s perception of how people should spend their time with their love ones. Eugenio Derbez is best known as Mexico’s famous comic actor. Derbez started as a main character of the movie Under the Same Moon and also Instructions Not Included. Instructions Not Included was distributed by Lionsgate Films 2014 and the main performers are Eugenio Derbez, Jessica Lindsey, Loreto Peralta, Daniel Raymont, and Alessandra Rosaldo. Our protagonist, Derbez, Valentín Bravo goes through life changing events throughout the film he faced many challenges, but as he accomplishes each and every one of those challenges, he kept something with him. Bravo mentions while he walks on the shoreline, “I'll always carry with me the

memory of the two great loves of my life, the first showed me how to be prepared to face life, and the second showed me how to face life without preparation.” Reviewing such a hilarious film is a great opportunity to have a better idea about the meaning of the film and give people that don’t know much Spanish all the understanding of the storyline. Derbez delivered the film in such a powerful yet in a funny way, not in a good way, by engaging the viewer, and all the sequences of the film contributed to execution.
Bravo is Acapulco's resident player, until a former young lady named Julie leaves a baby, Maggie Bravo, on his doorstep and leaves without any trace. Leaving Mexico for Los Angeles to find the Maggie's mother, Bravo ends up finding a new home for himself and his delivered daughter. An unlikely father figure, Bravo raises Maggie for quiet some years, while also establishing himself as one of the top stuntmen in Los Angeles and needs to money to pay his bills, with Maggie acting as his coach. As Bravo raises Maggie, she forces him to grow up too. But their unique family is threatened when Maggie's birth mom shows up out of nowhere, and Bravo realizes he's in danger of losing his child and his only best friend.
First of all, Derbez is a great movie actor yet as a director, not really. As a director, he directed Latin related television series and movies. According to npr.org, in the movie Instructions Not Included, Derbez tends to make it sort of like one of those Mexican dramatic television series like Rosa De Guadalupe and have a plot twist to everything (Clemens). Now as you can tell every dramatic television show are exaggerated by tons especially in Mexico. As the movie starts, Bravo is a player and sleeps with so many women. As Julie, a former woman he slept with, arrives to Bravo’s house, she makes the scene look like he’s the bad guy. Now as this scene goes on, the tables turn around, she asks for money to pay the taxi and she said she’ll return but instead left to Los Angeles. On the other hand as the scene plays, Derbez makes a great insight of Julie. As viewers might see that she’s the good one yet she turns out to be the bad person here. The scene ends as Bravo ends up with Maggie, and Julie leaves to Los Angeles. Bravo starts to set out on to an adventure to Los Angeles to find Julie and return Maggie. In the end of the scene, Derbez ends the scene where the viewers might have seen it coming but not exaggerated as he delivered it.
Secondly, Derbez starts out the scene where a man professionally dressed knocks on Bravo’s door. Bravo opens the door and the man asks him to sign. Without reading it carefully, he signs it and gets a letter from the United States Court of Family looking all confused and worried about Maggie. After a few scenes from the letter scene, both main characters are in the courtroom. Julie starts out giving her testimony how she explains her mistake of abandoning Maggie, then she starts talking about Bravo negatively with her technique. She uses that technique to get the jury to get an impression that Bravo is the worst father ever. Derbez plays this scene in that way to make the viewers look how both are willing to fight for Maggie. Knowing a typical Mexican family where if one of the parents wants a divorce, they fight for their children and tries to get a benefit out of it yet not these people. Derbez gives Julie’s character an advantage of her knowing the English language. He makes Bravo’s character not know English at all, so he needs a translator device for the trial. The trial goes on and Bravo starts his testimony. He has headphones on for the device that translates for him for the trial and as he’s giving his part, he starts reciting a Mexican song making the jury picture how awful of a father he is. Some critics might say that’s a giveaway and kills the point of the courtroom battle. Viewers seem to get a knowing that Julie has a better chance of winning Maggie’s custody. Derbez makes the viewers thing in that way. On the contrary, seeing it from another point of view, all the negative commentaries from the witnesses add up to show how Derbez can control the viewer’s mind. He makes a giant plot twist giving custody to Bravo and not to Julie. After all, out of all the negative comments, Bravo wins.
Finally, throughout the film, Bravo has so many mistakes of how one should love a child.

Derbez makes the movie if Bravo was never a great father. The funny thing about it is that Bravo realized that appreciating what you have is that everyone should do, but he took it in a way that he spoils Maggie just to appreciate her. In such way, some viewers might see that, that’s not a very good way of revealing the central theme. Derbez makes it like that so that the viewers have great laughs and enjoy the film. On the other hand, here’s what happens as the film proceeds, Bravo has been taking Maggie to the doctor for regular check-ups. Maggie is asked to run along and have some fun at the playroom. Once she leaves, the doctor starts mentioning that she doesn’t have much time. Bravo is devastated about the horrible news. He asks Maggie if she wants to go back to Acapulco, Mexico, happily she agrees. They arrive and Maggie starts learning soccer and makes new friends. Later on, Julie arrives to Acapulco to see Maggie. She finds both Maggie and Bravo. They end up talking about Maggie, and goes to a cliff next to the beach. In the end, Maggie, Bravo, and Julie watches the sundown, Maggie is lying on Bravo’s laps. As the sun goes down they start a countdown and that’s when Maggie passes away from the disease. The central theme of the film is that always appreciate what you have until the end. The title Instructions Not Included is really funny being that in Spanish has a very different meaning of the title. In Spanish it’s called No Se Aceptan Devoluciones which in English means no returns are accepted. Derbez makes it the titles like that to give two very special meanings. As Bravo states, “I'll always carry with me the memory of the two great loves of my life, the first showed me how to be prepared to face life, and the second showed me how to face life without preparation.”. Both titles apply to this quote. Derbez makes this look as the central theme. The first part means

that when Bravo meets Maggie he wanted to return it to Julie, but instead of returning it, Maggie gives preparation to Bravo with her critical condition. In the second part meaning that when he got Maggie, he had no clue what so ever to take care of Maggie. Lastly, Derbez was great at contributing the execution with a sense of humor.
Overall, Instructions Not Included has so many life lessons despite the way Derbez use humor to deliver the message. Eugenio Derbez carries the film with emotional or humorous performances. The film has somewhat a few loose ends especially after Maggie’s death. His execution was spectacular. Viewers may not agree with my opinion but as for me, sequel should be made.