I have thought about what to put in my blog for 2 days now and I am still unsure how to approach this film.
It is not that I am so naive that I haven't watched films similar to this, or that nudity or drug use in films offends me. It is that it is not what I would have chosen, if given the choice. I did not feel like the nudity, or sex scenes were necessary to get the point acrossed. The point being
that teenagers need guidance and love and family in order to have and understand social and family values. When these things go missing for so long children look to other people or things to comensate what they are missing.
These boy could have been teens from any country. Tenoch's family is wealthy. It appears the housekeeper has basically raised him, and everything he could ever want is at his fingertips. While Julio's family is obviously less fortunate and many things are not so readily available for him. Julio shares a car with his family, where as Tenoch's father has given him a car, but then takes it away from him when he refuses to take a class. This could be any 2 average teens here in America.
Luisa, Tenoch's cousin's wife, seemed to be very elegant at the wedding. So for her to turn out to act the way she does with the boy kind of confused me. I get that she received bad news from the doctor, and that while she is angry with her husbands affairs, she still wants to save his feelings and spare him from learning of her illness. Her behavior with 2 boys is disappointing at the very least.
This film definitely shows another angle of Hispanic culture, one that I would not be proud to show, but realistically it could be any ethnic culture depicted.
Thursday, June 3, 2010
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