El Colombian dream tells the story of two boys who venture into the business of hallucinogenic pills, but it goes beyond a simple reflection on the drug trafficking. Around this episode, Aljure offers his vision of the Colombia idiosyncrasies and of what means to live in this country. His characters state that the poets are become murderers in Colombia, but also recall that is better to live here than to be dead.
To suggest that kind of thinking without causing indigestion, Aljure uses a comic tone far from the easy humor of the violent jokes that abounds in the national cinema. His humor comes from the exaggeration of the most pathetic features of our reality, in a parody that sometimes takes on surreal overtones, as in a memorable passage in which the erotic radio talk- show host fly over the cows in the middle of a an hallucinogenic tour of pills.
The display of cinematic resources in El colombian dream is one of its values and one of its problem at the same time. The film is fuller than a bus, with an arsenal of resources ranging from comics to animation, to a wide range of post production effects. Some will say that this is the right style to tell a story of hallucinogenic pills, but two hours of video-clip may turn out to be excessive.