“A crazy marriage”
Two Colombian friends living in the United States drown their sorrows in alcohol after one of them, openly homosexual, discovered his fiancé cheating on him vilely, and the other received an immediate deportation order to Colombia. With too much alcohol in their heads, and between tears and laughter, they make the unexpected and daring decision to get married to provide an immediate solution to all their problems. Although this brings them more problems than solutions.
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Roughly chronological, from 3/96 to 11/96, with a coda in spring of 1997: inside compounds of Aum Shinrikyo, a Buddhist sect led by Shoko Asahara. (Members confessed to a murderous sarin attack in the Tokyo subway in 1995.) We see what they eat, where they sleep, and how they respond to media scrutiny, on-going trials, the shrinking of their fortunes, and the criticism of society. Central focus is placed on Hiroshi Araki, a young man who finds himself elevated to chief spokesman for Aum after its leaders are arrested. Araki faces extreme hostility from the Japanese public, who find it hard to believe that most followers of the cult had no idea of the attacks and even harder to understand why these followers remain devoted to the religion, if not the violence.
