But in fact, Laura didn't consider his relation with Daniel is an exclusive one. She assumed Daniel is her friend. It was extremely caused terrible feeling for Daniel. Then how their relation actually? Except from Daniel love story, there were a love story between Santi's students, two down-syndrome who falling in love that couldn't be separated for each other.

 

And the touching moment was when Daniel rejected to come inside a discotheque because they said he's still a kid. Daniel was mad and shout : "i am not a kid! i am 34 years old. You should let me in!" This film make us realize that a down-syndrome does have feeling like normal people. Not because of they're consider 'not normal' doesn't mean society can treat differently. 

 

They just want live as normal as possible. Interesting fact is Pablo Pineda actually the first down- syndrome who graduate from university! The fact he also can act, is surprising right? When you just got tired with the other love story , Me Too will enlightened you with something more than just a love story, where you can learn in imperfection make perfection. Where respect and love should line up together.

 

At 34-years of age, Daniel (Pablo Pineda) is the first student with Down syndrome to obtain a university degree in Europe. After graduation, Daniel is hired by the Disability Services office of Seville, Spain; it is his first job — and just another rung on Daniel’s ladder to normalcy. Daniel almost immediately starts working on the next rung, marriage, after landing the job, falling for a chain-smoking and boozy peroxide blond co-worker named Laura (Lola Dueñas). The question remains, can a “normal” woman fall in love with a man with Down syndrome? Or should Daniel just “Fall in love with women [he] can get”?*

 

Daniel explains at one point during the film that he has advanced beyond most individuals with Down syndrome because his mother (Isabel García Lorca) started talking to him at a very early age; as Daniel grew older his mother realized that he was actually understanding her and they began having discussions about philosophy, politics, etc. 

 

(Daniel’s parents are intellectuals who love and trust him implicitly.) Eventually Daniel was assimilated into Seville’s school system and progressed all the way to and through college Raised, essentially, as a “normal” person, Daniel is unsure of where his normalcy ends. How assimilated into Spanish society can he possibly become?

 

Is normalcy something that is worth aspiring to? (When Daniel confesses to Laura that he wants to be her boyfriend because she makes him “feel normal,” Laura retorts “Why would you want to be normal?”) Is Laura — a nymphomaniac who abandoned her family for undisclosed reasons — any more normal than Daniel?

 

 

 

Me,Too also features a very intriguing subplot, a love story between Down syndrome lovers Pedro (Daniel Parejo) and Luisa (Lourdes Naharro). Should they be allowed to date? To marry? Most importantly — to have sex?It is definitely worth noting that Pineda — like Daniel — is the first student with Down syndrome in Europe to obtain a university degree, so he is essentially playing a fictionalized version of himself in Me, Too.

 

Pineda’s heart-wrenching performance as Daniel is nothing short of amazing.Me, Too turns the popular understanding of Down syndrome on its head. Co-writers and directors Antonio Naharro and Álvaro Pastor effectively question the presumed abnormalcy of people with Down syndrome all the while pondering whether normalcy is all it is cracked up to be. 

 

As a society we might be able to root for Daniel’s quest for normalcy, but are we comfortable with the possibility of Daniel becoming more than just friends with Laura? And how does that differ from Pedro and Luisa’s relationship? Is there a line to be drawn? If so, where do we draw it? With a college diploma?For better or worse, I continuously pondered throughout the course of Me, Too whether or not a film like this could ever be created in Hollywood.

 

Is the United States ready to accept a “normal” Down syndrome lead character? More importantly, how receptive are audiences in the United States going to be to Me, Too? This is a groundbreaking film and I really hope that audiences at least give it a chance.

 

Rating: 7.5/10

 

 

ME, TOO (Yo, tambien) takes us into the world of Down syndrome people as we've not seen it previously: in an encompassing manner that includes home life, the workplace, romance and... sex. Unlike earlier movies that have addressed the needs of "special" people -- come on, can we say "handicapped"? -- such as The Other Sister or last year's fine Italian film We Can Do That -- by using gifted actors playing these "special people" -- this film, written and directed by Álvaro Pastor (shown below, right) and Antonio Naharro (below, left), uses a Down syndrome young man (Pablo Pineda) in the leading role.

 

It's not so easy is watching Mr Pineda -- a very obvious member of the Down crowd -- as he negotiates his way around and into a friendship, love and even sexual relationship with one of his co-workers, another "outsider" beautfully limned by Almodóvar actress Lola Dueñas (above, right, and below, left). Pineda is very, very good, mind you. He is utterly believable, moment to moment, in everything he does. The difficulty comes from seeing someone so "other" trying to fit into the "normal" world. 

It's so there, right in front of us (as it is in front of Dueñas), and there is no escaping the visual differences, for her or for us.  That she -- and, I think, we -- can finally see beyond the mere visual is the great strength of this movie -- which never shies away from the physical side of Down syndrome.The film is full of fine, funny and telling moments.

 

Daniel's brother (played by filmmaker Naharro) warning him, "Don't fall in love with a woman with 46-chromosomes; she's not going to be interested."  Later, when things don't work out to Daniel's liking and he rants to his brother about the unfairness of his brother's life as compared to his own, "Don't make me feel guilty for having what I have!" the brother insists.

 

The back-story given the Dueñas character also helps the movie work from a psychological aspect, while the scruffy beard that Daniel wears, adds some maturity and weight to his appearance. The movie gets so many details right, and these add immeasurably to its believability.

 

Spain today, for all of  its current economic problems, seems like a model society in many ways.  How it  treats all of its people is one big sign of its progress.Me,Too,also unrated and, again, I'd allow any age child into this movie -- opens this Friday, November 19, in New York City at the Cinema Village.  I hope this film, too, makes it into other theaters across our country, and onto DVD.

 

-Goya 2010 de la meilleure actrice pour Lola Duenas, et

de la meilleure chanson originale

-Double prix d'interprétation (coquilles d'argent) au Festival de Saint-Sébastien en 2009.

-Prix du public au Festival international du film de Rotterdam.