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The 2025 Chilean Netflix documentary Millonario tells the story of perhaps the country's unluckiest man, or the failed attempts of an ambitious con man, depending on how you perceive the complex situation. The protagonist is Javier Zapata, a Chilean who won the country's largest lottery, 2.4 billion pesos, but was never able to collect the prize, as authorities claimed his ticket was counterfeit. Although its presentation is a bit chaotic and sometimes strays from the main topic, Millonario is still an intriguing film and can be highly entertaining for fans of non-fiction cinema.  Javier Zapata, a farmer living in a town near Los Angeles in central Chile, led a very normal life until one fateful day in March 2018. Although Javier was never extroverted and therefore not very popular in his neighborhood, he had a good number of close friends and acquaintances who regularly stayed with him or simply said hello when they met. Most neighbors remember seeing Javier participating in f...