The more that вЂњPapi ChuloвЂќ tries to frame the friendship as quirkyВ and not clearly one-sided, it gets even worse. 'Papi Chulo' gets even more ridiculous when Sean later tries to track down Ernesto, and it's simply obnoxious that he considers Ernesto enough of a friend to constantly talk at him about his problems, but not enough to have his cell phone number, and also that Sean treats the outside of the hardware store as if it were ErnestoвЂ™s home. And heвЂ™s wrong about this friendship in so many ways-the viewer knows this, but weвЂ™re not sure the script does until the very end-and it's dishearteningВ to watch, scene by scene. Sean is even defensive in an earlier scene when someone remarks that they have вЂњa вЂDriving Miss DaisyвЂ™ thingвЂќ going on after Ernesto rows a sleepy Sean around Echo Park.В But Sean doesnвЂ™t fully grasp the situation or its optics, and frustratingly, neither does 'Papi Chulo.' It's a bonding activity, Sean thinks, even though Ernesto knows he is getting paid for this diversion from painting the deck. Ernesto just sits there, half-smiles, and Sean rambles on. Ernesto can share how many children he has, because Sean knows some numbers in Spanish, but thatвЂ™s pretty much it. As the needy Sean takes his new companionВ Ernesto through recognizable landmarks likeВ Echo Park, Sean talks at Ernesto about his problems, treating him like the therapist he should have seen long ago. вЂњPapi ChuloвЂќ is a buddy comedy, but only by its ramshackle design-itвЂ™s a forced friendship, and itвЂ™s not cute, let alone funny. ItвЂ™s only a semblance of trust in humanity that makes one think 'Papi Chulo' agrees with youВ as toВ how gross all of this looks.

In a tone-deaf meet-cute,В Sean goes toВ the hardware store andВ meets his new pal Ernesto outside ( Alejandro PatiГ±o) while other migrant workers surround Sean's car. When Sean has it removed, a big sunspot is revealed underneath, and Sean has to go and get paint, but he doesnвЂ™t want to do the painting himself.

The incident causes him to leave the job for a while, and we find out that itвЂ™s related to sadness for a past partner named Carlos, who left behind only a tree on the back deck. Written and directed by John Butler, the story comes with an undeveloped dark side-weвЂ™re introduced to Matt BomerвЂ™s weatherman Sean as he fails to hold it together on camera, having a live meltdown. In the case of 'Papi Chulo,' this one is about aВ depressed, upper middle-class white man named Sean, who meets an immigrant worker named Ernesto outside a hardware store, and pays Ernesto to spend time with him. John ButlerвЂ™s grating вЂњPapi ChuloвЂќ manages to out-вЂњ Green BookвЂќ the Best Picture-winner when it comes to teeth-gnashing racial dynamics and ham-fisted sentimentality, its story built around a white personвЂ™s epiphany about those who look different than him.

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