Post-graduation anxiety is an acute, all-consuming thing. What next? What is this qualification worth? What’s your purpose? Jaime Reyes (pronounced “hi-may”, not “jay-mee” – one of many sharp and vital cultural specificities in the film) is desperately searching for his, returning home to the fiction Palmera City (think Bruce Bane’s Gotham) and wondering what comes next. He’s got his beloved family, his closest confidants – but he needs a job.
