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The Miracle of P. Tinto
El milagro de P. Tinto
1998 · Film · 102 min
Directed by Javier Fesser
Wafer factory-owner P. Tinto and his wife Olivia want a child of their own more than anything else in the world. Years of trying, however, have left them with nothing but a pair of extraterrestrial midgets living in the spare bedroom. When they decide to try adoption, a series of misroutings and chance encounters results in an escaped adult mental patient arriving at their door with adoption papers in hand. P. Tinto and Olivia accept this without question and welcome him in as their son. Can this family arrangement work?
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Thank you very much. East European movies are underrepresented in the "global community" despite their productivity. In the vein of your recommendations but from Spain I recommend "El milagro de P. Tinto" [1], mainly satire with its ups and downs but recommended.
[1] https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0151572/?language=es-es
There's a somewhat famous movie in Spain called the Miracle of P Tinto[0]. It's a very surreal humor kind of movie, if you fancy that.
The plot starts with the star character who wants to form a family, but when he asked adults how to have kids, they would all pull up the suspenders and sing "tralari, tralari" to evade the question.
And so the poor guy did exactly what he was told: pull his suspenders and sing, for years, to no avail.
I think LLMs are a bit like that: because they can't escape the world of text, they can't go beyond the reality that text is trying to be isomorphic to. Which means that LLMs are forced to infer answers in the context of its training data.
If LLMs were told that in order to have kids you, well, you know, right? Bees and Love? Then LLMs, asked about sex, would infer that the answer has something to do with apiculture and flowers.
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Miracle_of_P._Tinto