


The audience is even more amused and excited by the situation while concurrently at the asylum, the patients start to get excited and agitated and then parade the ground in a state of joy, and eventually into the town where the concert is being held. After a few false starts with Rantés trying to conduct the orchestra, the musicians eventually decide to play as Rantés conducts them.

He eventually persuades the conductor to let him take the baton for the symphony's iconic Ode to Joy, which confuses the musicians, leading to their refusing to play with him. Rantés becomes even more entranced by the music as the orchestra plays Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. The audience finds this amusing and exciting, and some of them decide to follow suit and also dance. During the concert, captivated by the music, Rantés asks Beatriz to dance. Denis invites both of them to an outdoor classical concert. Prieto (Rubens Correa) admits that Rantés would be his first assistant in some time (having lost his due to budget cuts).ĭr. Prieto, to hire him as a volunteer assistant. The doctor is aware that Rantés has been leaving without permission and has avoided taking his medicine nevertheless, he is impressed and he takes Rantés' requests seriously, persuading the head of pathology, Dr. Because of Rantés kindness to everyone, he quickly earns the loyalty of the other patients and Dr. Denis claims that he appears to be the only physician who still notices the polite, unproblematic patient, but it's clear in a subsequent scene that he is not, since the doctor gets Rantés a job in the Pathology department of the Hospital. He claims to do this to receive 'transmissions from his planet' and he implies that he is actually the doctor's own hallucination. He spends hours standing in one of the asylum's courtyards, completely motionless, facing southeast. Compassionate to a fault, he uses this gift to the benefit of the hungry, narrowly skirting the law. Having a psychokinetic gift, he quickly finds ways to explore the city on his own and without permission.
