Toby, a cynical film director finds himself trapped in the outrageous delusions of an old Spanish shoe-maker who believes himself to be Don Quixote. In the course of their comic and increasingly surreal adventures, Toby is forced to confront the tragic repercussions of a film he made in his idealistic youth.
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The man who killed Don Quixote is a film about cinema and the power of creation, but I don't really see it as a film, it's unorganized and all over the place, I think of it as a tale and spectacle more than anything else, and maybe this is why I love it; it's fun and I don't know where it's going with a meta story that is too much in your face. It’s a story of an obnoxious director who tells the story that blurs fiction and reality, until the director himself endorses the role of his creation. Am I talking about Terry Gilliam here? Perhaps Toby? Or even Don Quixote the character? I see them all as the director, or the creator let's say; a line that spans between ideas, realism and madness, and sometimes they merge together. Just as the movie ends, the realist becomes the dreamer, the sane into mad and is consumed by his work was he afraid of it? of the lives it changed and the people…