Analyzing/ Evaluating a Movie Y tu mama tambien Y tu mama tambien by Alfonso Cuaron is the movie evaluated in the next paragraphs. The movie is starred by Gael Garcia Bernal, Diego Luna, and the Spanish Maribel Verdu. The movie starts with the typical two best friends Julio (Garcia Bernal) and Tenoch (Luna) whose girlfriends are about to depart for summer vacations. As they leave the airport, after their take off they continue to their own world of irreverence and over stimulated hormones. So despite
In Y Tu Mamá También, two young men, Tenoch and Julio, are accompanied by a beautiful woman, Luisa, on a trip to a secluded beach on the Mexican coastline. Luisa, a married woman who secretly knows she is dying from an unnamed illness, joins the immature teenagers in an effort to find personal peace for herself and escape her failing marriage in her last days. The three companions spend three or so days in a small car together in which they learn about themselves, each other, and the relationships
Alfonso Cuarón’s 2001 movie, Y Tu Mamá También, contains transnational elements that contribute to the films overall aesthetic and global success. In the film a duo of friends, Tenoch Iturbide and Julio Zapata, are two young men that find themselves on edge because each of their girlfriends are travelling in Europe before they leave for college. The transnational aspects of the film go beyond the funding, cast, and distribution and delve into a much larger, transnational issue. The definite time
Cuarón’s Y Tu Mamá También, which was produced and distributed originally in Mexico, is a coming of age story revolving around two young friends, Tenoch and Julio as they go on a several-day road trip to the beach with a woman named Luisa. Through its use of the coming of age narrative, Y Tu Mamá También is a good example of the classical Hollywood cinema form.
restrictive image. This is the virgin/whore dichotomy or the idea that female characters are painted as one dimensional either being good, pure, and virginal or evil, manipulative, and promiscuous. In the early 2000s movies like Amores Perros and Y Tu Mamá También had begun to challenge this kind of narrative. “The movie continues the revisionist a revisionist trend that questions the position of women in vis-à-vis narrative in contemporary Mexican
Y tu mamá también tells the story of Tenoch, Julio, and Luisa as they journey towards the fictitious Boca del Cielo ("Heaven's Mouth"). Ultimately, the film uses the concept of a road trip to highlight issues of class within Mexican culture and the prevalence of death. Moreover, the trip allows each of these characters to experience freedoms that they would not get to enjoy in their daily life. Before the trip, Luisa is thrown a curve ball when she finds out her husband is cheating on her and we
The director of Children of Men is Alfonso Cuaron who also co wrote the film. He has directed, written, and produced many films which include A little Princess, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Gravity, and Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban. Many directors have a specific style that is constant in their films that they begin to become know for. For instance director and writer Quentin Tarantino known for dark action packed dramas
At the beginning of this course, we read the article Why Latin America? I was not sure that I knew much about Latin American other than the beautiful variety of cultures, the beaches and tourist sites, and the poverty in a lot of areas. I had seen documentaries on immigration and the conditions in some countries of Latin America all throughout high school, but I had never looked into Latin America outside of that class. I felt such a disconnection and while I knew in the back of my head that they
Even though the road movie ‘’Central Do Brasil’’ contains a vast amount of gender stereotypical references, the movie manages to counter these traditional narratives in a subtle but critical manner. In the initial scenes of the movie, one is under the impression that the women portrayed in the movie are not of importance to the narrative of the movie. The women who dictate their desperate letters at Dora’s desk at the Central Station of Rio de Janeiro are seen as weak, lost and in desperate need
“I do not believe that many American citizens . . . really wanted to create such immense human suffering . . . in the name of battling illegal immigration” (Carr 70). For hundreds of years, there has been illegal immigration starting from slavery, voluntary taking others from different countries to work in different parts of the world, to one of the most popular- Mexican immigration to the United States. Mexican immigration has been said to be one of the most common immigration acts in the world
People often need to have validation from themselves, in regard to both their sexuality and general self, before being able to be accepted others. Too often this important fact is disregarded by today's culture and societal norm. This appears to be a recurring theme throughout the many passages and articles we have read in class, as well as in various piece of fictional literature. I will be using the 1991 film "Paris Is Burning," a short work of fiction by Jane S. Fancher called "Moonlover and