Mexican Movie Analysis

Mexico’s bravest man is a documentary filmed by Charlie Minn, released in February of 26 2016. The film is about a man who took on the drug cartels from 2007 to 2013. Leyzaola was the police chief who started to fight crime in Tijuana. Julian Leyzaola is known for calming down the crime rate in Tijuana and in Juarez when crime rates where sky rocking. He survived seven assassination attempts, five in Tijuana and two in Juarez. In the eighth attempt Leyzaola got hurt which caused himto leave but wanted to run for mayor in Tijuana. When Leyzaola was given the opportunity to become chief in the police in Juarez he left Tijuana. When leyzaola arrived to Juarez he applied a strategy of dividing Juarez into six areas. He fired many police officer who were linked to corruption. Some people

The film Gringos at the Gate is a documentary about the interesting and dynamic relationship between the United States and Mexico. It uses the sport of soccer, futbol, to highlight the patriotism each country has for their respective country. The director also highlights the issue of identity for Mexican Americans. Many are conflicted with the idea of not knowing who they are supposed to (or in some cases allowed to) support. In this class we spoke about how through history Latin America has struggled with identity. As seen in Jake Silverstein’s article, “Grand Opening Ronald McDonald conquers New Spain”, and Gringos at the Gate, the interaction between two countries in Latin America can lead conflict in deciding one’s

The film begins on February 26, 1995, with American Tejano music singer Selena (Jennifer Lopez) performing to a sold out concert at the Astrodome in Houston, Texas. In 1961 Corpus Christi, Texas, a young Abraham Quintanilla, Jr. (Edward James Olmos) and his band Los Dinos, are rejected for an audition by a white restaurant owner due to their Mexican American background, and are later booed and chased out of a club for performing ballads and not knowing any Mexican dance music. Crushed, Abraham gives up music.

The film mentioned the gender inequality and social stratification as well as struggles against racism during the Mexican-Americans miners’ strike in New Mexico. It shows how the miners were discriminated from white people who had higher ranking on the social ladder, and how the women were inferior to men economically and politically. The miner workers had same concept with Functionalist theories on the lecture where mentions “what is best for society means what is best for men”. However, at the end of the movie shows the entire working class community could all come together in a shared political action both men and women in the grim affairs of the strikers, and of the strong determination of the women to participate in the carrying on of

In También la Lluvia the film describes the mission that two filmmakers take to produce a film of the journey of Christopher Columbus and his obsession with finding goods. At first the filmmaker Sebastian sets on his mission to expose Christopher Columbus’ initial intentions which were his obsession with gold, searching for slaves to take back with him, and lastly terrorizing and torturing any Indian that resisted Christianity. Sebastian and Costa decide to make the Christopher Columbus film in Bolivia because of their tight budget and also because Bolivia has many Indians that they could use as extras in their film. Upon arrival Sebastian and his crew face several challenges in filming because they were not aware that the area that they chose Cochabamba, was facing their own modern day Christopher Columbus because they were fighting to keep their water that was privatized to a British and American multinational. The film proves and supports

Los Mineros were Mexican/ Mexican American miners in Southeastern Arizona that settled in the sister towns or Clifton and Morenci. The miners came from Mexico excited to learn a new culture and in hope of a better life in their new country. However, the Mexican American immigrants did not expect that they would experience inequality at work and in their everyday lives. Because they were Mexican Americans they were looked down on throughout the town. Upon workers the Mexican Americans were the most desirable workers because they worked for a cheap price. At work the miners were assigned the most dangerous and toughest jobs while being paid far less than an Anglo American was. They faced a lot of discrimination in the towns, which was slowly segregating them from the Anglo Americans. For example, a Mexican/ Mexican American was not allowed in a white Anglo mans home. In the video of Los Mineros we can see when a white Anglo man gets in trouble by the mining company for allowing a Mexican American inside his home. Even though the man argued that he had the right to; the mining company prohibited him from doing so. This shows how much power the mining company had over people. It also shows the influence and impact that they had on

When arriving to this exhibition I was excited to try and understand the story behind each piece of art. When first entering the exhibition I was shrouded in darkness with only the voices of the people in the videos to keep me company. The first thing that caught my eye was the videos playing in front of me and the ones I could hear playing in the distance I was overwhelmed for a second because it felt like I was taking too much in, but I got myself together and sat down for the first video. The name of the short film is La cabeza mato a todos (the head killed everyone). The video begins with a woman in a hammock holding a black cat and she begins to speak about magic and wars. She eventually starts to walk through a densely forested

Viewers follow the story of Lucia who migrates to a small town in Spain and a few immigrants who are from Africa, typically from Morocco, and their everyday struggle. Looking closely at the film there are various scenes where it is evident of the mistreatment that the immigrants face. Viewers become aware that because the workers are not documented they are taken advantage of and work in poor conditions. Workers are not paid overtime, do not have job security, and are mistreated at any given moment.

The Emigrants is a film following the story of a Swedish family who falls on challenging times when immigrating to America. The Nilsson family originates from Sweden, resonated from their difficulty with crops, the nephew, Robert, gets the idea to move to America for a better life. The Nilsson family and a small group of the Swedish religious group in the same town.

Once Upon a Time in Mexico is released after Robert Rodriguez achieved successful performance with El Mariachi, which is his famous low-budget film. El Mariachi was made for only $7000, but received enthusiastic praise from the audience at Sundance Film Festival. El Mariachi’s mythology was continued with his performance with Once Upon a Time in Mexico in the United States. Like El Mariachi, Robert also utilizes Once Upon a Time in Mexico also has action scenes to defeat bad guys and the technical skills that used in action scenes gives surprise of the moment while I watched the film. Also, the film made me sink into the heroic scenes as the guitar melodies gives a sense of a tension and the comedy scenes relives the tension again. But, after

The video states that females are treated as objects when they are in the America’s fields of the agricultural industry. Specifically, many women had to pay great price in order to keep their jobs and give a better life to their children. Many female workers were abused in their working areas by their supervisors and foremen. Most of the abused females were afraid to speak out or report the harassments that occurred during their working hours, not only because of their immigration status, but because of fear of not being trusted. After females reported the incidents, many of the supervisors denied having done the activities reported by the workers. The case of Juan Marin is illustrative. Marin was the supervisor who abused Angela Mendoza’s daughter. After he faced the accusations, he said he did not know any of the women who were accusing

The students became such great students when Mr. Escalante came to their school to teach because he made the students repeat sayings, he argued to be able to teach the students more, and he made the students work on math every single day. In the movie, Mr. Escalante started off with have the students repeat, “A negative times a negative equals a positive.” He just kept on making up saying from there. Along with that, Mr. Escalante told the staff that he wouldn’t teach anymore if he wouldn’t be able to teach the students in the summer. He wanted to do this so his students would pass the advanced calculus placement test. Lastly, he encouraged the students to work everyday day no matter the condition. For example, Mr. Escalante was teaching the

For instance, in the film “Jack and Jill”, the Mexican garden jokes about how his wife is trying to sneak into heaven, referring back to the issue of illegal immigration . They always try to view them as the outsiders and others as they are not similar to the American Anglos. Hollywood does not show the talents that the immigrant talent might have, but instead, the roles that they portrays tend to be offensive for the most part and downright racist with the exception of films. Berumen continues as racism and prejudice festered and flourished in films, and people of darker skins were the primary victims: Latins, Blacks, American Indians, and Asians (p.13) The racism towards Latin American also goes back before the cinematic revolution, as the Anglos see themselves as a better race and ethnic group then the lotions, which the idea is transmitted to film screens later on. Hollywood is trying to portray the United States as the land of opportunities, chances and dreams, unlike how it portrays the Latin American countries as sad, dangerous, and no opportunities are available. The way that the American cinema draws the stereotypes tends to stick with viewers, for instance, my friend and I were talking about Latin America and she said that she would never go there because it is “dangerous

He was shot, although he did not have any weapon. In general, the film reveals the Mexican immigration issue and the problem of the tough relationship between the government and police and the immigrants. In addition, comparing the problems of racial discrimination in the film with the problems of modern American society, some vivid similarities and differences can be founded. The film shows a turning point in the American history, which has become a difficult period for most residents.

The movie exposes the shabby working and living conditions of the Mexican-American community. It provides some historical background on how Hispanic rights were violated by white industrialists. The land where the mine is located was once owned by members of the local Mexican-American community, however the Zinc Company moved in, took over the property and offered them the "choice" of moving or accepting employment at low wage. Additionally, the workers are enticed to live in management-owned houses and buy at management-owned stores. The homes of the Hispanics are shacks compared to those of their white co-workers with poor sanitation and bad plumbing. The stores sell goods at inflated prices, which put the workers in debt.