The movie is about A mother that leaves her son in Mexico and she goes to the Unites States of America illegally so she could work and her son could have a better life. Her son stayed with his grandma for 4 years until she died, when she died he decided to cross the border so he could go with his mom. Once he was able to cross the border he had different difficulties trying to look for his mom, while looking for his mom he found his dad that he had never met and he asked him if he could take him to Los Angeles so he could be with his mom, his father told him he would, but he never showed up. He met a guy along the way and he decided to help him find his mom, once they arrive in Los Angeles they were caught by the police buy the guy help the …show more content…
kid run away so he could continue to look for his mom. After he run away he was able to find his mom at the place that she told him that she was every sunday that she would call him.
7.-The audience the movie is targeting would be Americans and Mexicans, to show a little bit of the thing that illegal immigrant have to go through just to get a better life for them and their families. One of the issues that the film addresses is, the separation of families and illegal immigration. The movie showed what Carlitos and Rosario have to go through because they live in two different countries. Rosario had to go to the United States to provide for her son while her mom was taking care of Carlitos, Carlitos suffer the separation of his parents and then his mom leaving him behind. He had Grandma’s support but that was not enough for Carlitos he needed his mom. The next issue the movie addresses is the illegal immigration. In the movie you are able to see what are some of the reason that people decide to cross the border illegally. Most of them being able to provide for their families, no matter what they go through they to their best to have a job and make money. The movie shows how illegal immigrant work and the thing that they need to do to hide from immigration police, so they can keep working to provide for their families. The way the immigration police hit them to stay in place was hard and not the best way to treat people that the only thing they where doing was working to earn some …show more content…
money. These part reminded me of the people that continuously says that Mexican are steeling their jobs, but this are jobs that Americans are not willing to do because of the hard work that is require and the low pay they received. Rosario had to have two jobs in order to provide and save money at the same time, another issue is the way they are treated. Rosario boss just let her go because one day Rosario was not able to stay longer as she needed to leave to go to her second job, as Rosario was explaining to her boss that she really needed that job her boss replied that she already had another job. Rosario demanded her money for the days that she had worked and her boss replied to her that she was not going to pay her, when Rosario said that she work half of the week and she needed the money her boss said no and asked her if she wanted to call the police, because she knew Rosario situation about being an illegal immigrant. Rosario could not do anything about it so she left and started looking for another job. Rosario boss took advantage of her just because she is an illegal immigrant she treated her like she was a nobody and that is not right, she did not care that she was illegal when she was cleaning the house and doing the chores that she need to do, until she did not do what she wanted her to do because of her second job. 8.-My response to the message of the film is that illegal immigrants are crossing the border to have a better life, work hard and provide for their families. I know that it might not be the right way to do it, but sometimes is the only way. I am saying this, because my father was one of them, he came to the United States of American crossing the border illegally. All he wanted to de was being able to work to earn some money so he could provide for his family, I am proud of my dad for taking his chances and doing what he did to provide for us. I know he went trough a lot of racism, discrimination, low pay and hard work to provide for us. He work on the field for many years and many more in construction, he did not steel any jobs from anybody, all he did was taking a job that anybody else wanted to do. Even though the job was heard and he was really tire he did it to keep his job and provide for us, his family. He is know a United State Citizen and proud to be once an illegal immigrant. I know that there are some illegal immigrants that might not be as good, but is not fair that we get judge because of them. People should give them self time to know the person before judging, I have had a lot of people told me that I am illegal just by known that I am hispanic. 9.-There are many cultural differences in the movie, for example: the economic situation was different, the American look like they live in a nice home, had money and they were well dressed, there clothes was clean, their hairs was done.
While the illegal immigrants where poor, their houses where small, too many people leaving in one house, their clothes was dirty. Their life style was different the illegal immigrants has to go to work and worry about the immigration police all they while working so they won’t get caught and the American look relaxed they had nothing to worry about they just simply gave instructions and that illegal immigrants needed to do and that was about it. The American seem to be quite most of the time and the Immigrants where loud most of the time, they would help each other in different situations, like when the immigration police showed up at one of the jobs one of them starting yelling so everyone would know and they could hide or run from them. The immigrants also seem a lot more happier even though they were poor they had couple of parties where they had music, food and they where
dancing. 10.-One of the techniques that the filmmaker used and cough my attention was the setting when the little boy Carlitos started kicking his backpack after his dad did not showed up. The lighting and how everything was quite really made me focus on Carlitos and the way he was feeling, he was heartbroken. Also the setting when Carlitos was crossing the border inside of the seat of the van and the two American Citizen are really nervous and they are sweating makes you really believe the scene and what is really happening. Another techniques that was different from the films that I normally watch was the dialogue the two adults had in Indian dialect. The atmosphere they had in the party where Rosario supposed to get married to Paco was different front the recent movies that I have watch, the lighting the music was different. 11.-I think that the film relates to a class discussion we had about the race card journal. We after judge people base on their physical looks, by the area that they live in, who they are with. To me it relates to these discussion because I have been told many times that I am illegal just because I look Mexican, people don’t take the time to asks questions to find out what the reality is they just assume base on your appearance. There is one more discussion that I think it relates to and that is when we talk about what would you do, would you do what is politically right or would you do what is morally right? By these I meant would you cross the border illegally because your feel that is morally right to do something that is wrong to provide something that is morally right to your family and you self. 12.-I think that you assign an international film, so we could see the difference in cultures and the similarities in human beings.
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2. The Fugitive Slave Act, was a part of the Compromise of 1850. This allowed for groups of slave catchers from slave states to go into free states to recapture runaway slaves and return them to their owners for a reward. This awful deal for the southern states was done to allow California to enter the U.S. as a Free State. So in essence, words or laws have consequences (is this the theme perhaps???). Explain how this was seen in this movie. (six sentences)