“Bob Trevino Likes It” is an instance of what some folks have referred to as “Nicecore,” which means a murals that stresses kindness, generosity, empathy and different optimistic behaviors, and doesn’t undercut it with irony or cynicism. The primary character, Lily Trevino (Barbie Ferreira), is a 25-year-old residence care nurse whose father Bob (French Stewart) is a raging narcissist, the sort of man who sits throughout from his daughter at lunch as she spills her heartbreak and barely seems to be up from the iPhone he’s utilizing to find out which blonde from his senior group thus far subsequent. Lily’s mom, an addict, abandoned the household when Lily was very younger, and though her dad stepped up, he brazenly resented Lily and handled her as extra of a burden than a daughter.
Then the 2 have a combat and Bob decides to chop Lily out of his life, even blocking her on Fb. When Lily, who thinks her dad merely unfriended her, tries to reconnect with him on the app, she sorts “Bob Trevino” into the search bar and comes up with a number of matches that aren’t her father and one which has no avatar. That’s the one which she sends a brand new pal request to. It seems to be a unique Bob Trevino, who’s performed by John Leguizamo and seems to be the type of particular person Lily all the time wished to have as a dad: type, responsive, an incredible listener, clever, sincere, a fan of corny jokes, and the type of guardian who reflexively “likes” each social media submit she places up.
Their first in-person assembly is meant to occur at a diner, however Lily’s consumer’s rest room overflows and he or she impulsively asks the brand new Bob to assist her repair it. Not solely does he present up rapidly and remedy the issue, he takes her to a ironmongery store to buy requirements that her organic father by no means instructed her she wanted.
You’re in all probability studying this considering, “I want life have been like this.” I used to be considering the very same factor all by “Bob Trevino Likes It” as a result of I didn’t learn the press notes earlier than the screening (I typically keep away from doing that as a result of I prefer to have as contemporary a response as doable). Because it seems, the movie’s author and director, Tracie Laymon, is telling a wierd however true story that occurred to her however altering among the key particulars as a result of, as she defined at a SXSW screening, she didn’t need to get sued by her organic father.
