Sex, in particular, plays a major role in the film's plot and themes. The film's art depicts a world with grim realities - from childbirth to drug use to the mental and emotional strain of being a woman in a patriarchal society. Paola's mother, who makes her living as a psychic who reads fortunes using dominos, is forced to raise her three daughters alone with resilience and drive, and the most impactful scenes of the story revolve around her struggles and sacrifices as a mother. They already have two girls, Claudia (Camila Valenzuela) and Patty (Mara Gutiérrez), by the time Paola comes unexpectedly along.Īs a baby, Paola is doted on by Claudia and resented by Patty, but that dynamic reverses when Patty makes her first communion and Claudia becomes strikingly beautiful as a teen, especially after Uriel leaves his family to return home to Medellín. Paola's father, Uriel (Diego Leon Hoyos), has left the priesthood to raise a family with Hilda. The resulting baby is the author and narrator herself, Paola (Maria Cecilia Sanchez). Another suggests the titular "Virus Tropical". Another thinks it that it might be a psychological malady. One doctor dismisses her five-month pregnant condition as the result of gas. "Do I have worms?" she asks her local physician when she notices her swelling belly. Hilda (voiced by Alejandra Borrero) had undergone a tubal ligation some time beforehand.
The opening sequence sees a man and a woman are having vigorous, noisy sex, while the raindrops that hammer down outside a bedroom turn into spermatozoa in a wriggly race through the woman's fallopian tubes.
The story begins in South America, specifically Quito, Ecuador in 1976. Telling the coming-of-age story of a predominantly female family's struggle to grow and find happiness through the joys and hardships of adolescence, director Santiago Caicedo's 'Virus Tropical' is a full-length animated feature inspired by the autobiographical graphic novel of the same name by Colombian-Ecuadorian illustrator Power Paola. What separates "slice of life" as a genre from the literal meaning of the phrase (which would encompass nearly all fiction) is the emphasis on the very moment, with the intent of focusing the audience on that moment rather than using that moment as part of a narrative.
A cast of characters go about their daily lives, making observations and being themselves.
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