Film Analysis Of Gregory Navas's 'My Family/Mi Familia'

Afterwards, in the 1990s films portraying Latinos would take a somehow new direction, one of the most famous filmmakers would be Gregory Navas, he directed the movie My Family/Mi Familia, a film that portrays the lives of a Mexican-American family and the difficulty that the couple faced in order to establish in the U.S. “by passing as immigrants and all the struggle to integrate their family in another country” (Peña Acuña, 2010). The film let the audience see a potential reality that most immigrants went through when they first moved to the United States and how the system worked differently and the way immigrants had to adapt not only to the system, but also to the language and culture.
Furthermore, Gregory Navas directed in 1997 another memorable film that had success, Selena. The movie was based on a true story, it tells the life, the musical career and the tragic death of the Mexican-American singer Selena Quintanilla. The rising star had popularized a music genre called Tex-Mex, which was music by Texan artists from Mexican origins. The film was released two years after Selena

It is also interesting to mention how in a subtle way it also portrays Vergara’s character as a “gold digger” because of her marriage with an older man. The stereotypes are still present in films and shows “although substantial improvements have occurred over the decades, in many ways these groups remain defined by a limited volume and range of representations” (Tukachinsky, Mastro & Yarchi, 2017). As mentioned before, Latinos are the second largest ethnic group in the U.S., which means the diversity that exists within the group is huge; however, the stereotypes seems to be always the