Both films, ‘Mustang’ and ‘Y Tu Mama Tambien’ represent youth on a journey of self-discovery with various challenges along the way. In ‘Y Tu Mama Tambien’, two young teenage boys go on a road trip with a young woman who is in her late twenties and discover their sexual maturity. The young woman Luisa is a distant cousin by marriage of one of the young men, and she immediately peaks their interest and deep desires. The title of this movie translated in English is, ‘And Your Mama Too’. Analyzing the
The movie Babel was released on October 27, 2006 in New York City. The director of the movie, Alejandro González Iñárritu, is a Mexican film director, producer, screenwriter, and composer. The movie tells a story about an accident that connects four different groups of people. It takes place on three different continents, Japan, America and Africa. A Moroccan family, a vacationing American couple in Morocco played by Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett, a mute Japanese teenager and her father, and the Mexican
bold approach and peculiar vision, had different impacts on me. If “Jackie” impressed me most through the stylish visuals, “Neruda” strongly hit me with its poetic narrative and passionate conception. Written by Guillermo Calderón and starring Gael García Bernal and Luis Gnecco in the main roles, the film adopts the qualities of a detective story painted with lyrical hues and bolstered by a cat-and-mouse game taken to philosophical extremes. In the late 40s, Pablo Neruda (Gnecco), an earthly and provocative
This movie's cast starred by Anthony Gonzalez, Gael Garcia Bernal, Benyamin Bratt, Alanna Ubach, Renee Victor, Ana Ofelia Murgula and Edward James Olmos. Based on Lee Unkrich's idea, this movie very fascinating because tells about Miguel's journey to the land of dead. It has a very powerful culture of Mexico
Motorcycle Diaries: Foreshadowing the Future life of Ernesto “Che” Guevara Motorcycle Diaries(2004) is a beautiful yet painfully truthful film about the early life of a young medical student by the name of Che Guevara (Gael Garcia Bernal) and his partner, a biochemist, Alberto Granado (Rodrigo de la Serna) and also with the help by director Walter Salles who “uncovers Che Guevara's path to revolution with powerful metaphors of images and sounds,which make of the young Ernesto Guevara a hero out
There is the extraordinary film The Motorcycle Diaries starring Gael Garcia Bernal as Che, highlighting his journey through Latin America as a young man. The movie itself is based off Che’s own personal diary of the same name. Both the diary and movie tell the story of Che’s journey and how it changed his life. It was this
The movie set in Bolivia, this Spanish stars Gael Garcia Bernal and `Rudi as film director Sebastian. He is making a film in the Cochabamba region at auditioning a feisty Indian, They are also keen to show how the Indians were exploited by the Spanish Empire and show a few good men who stood up for the Indians and the tyranny of the Church. However, then they discover that Daniel is a leading activist against the privatisation of water or more accurately the theft of water and the exception of some
On one hand, only few Latinos and other minorities, such as Gael Garcia Bernal, Javier Bardem, Penelope Cruz, Sofia Vergara, Diego Luna, Cameron Diaz, Eva Longoria, Selena Gomez, Jennifer Lopez or B,D, Wong, Jackie Chang Lucy Liu, Michelle Yeoh, Ken Jeong among others did the quantum leap in Hollywood, However, they still
Who is Dayani Cristal? (Silver, 2013) dives into the background of what happens when immigrants die on their journey to the United States, and further emphasizes how the “illegal” identities construct migration as a criminal act. This film looks far beyond the perspective of being an undocumented immigrant and illegally crossing the border, and more towards a dangerous journey focused around family and values. To further emphasize a more personal anecdote of an immigrant coming to the United States
No After analyzing the film No by Pablo Larraín, the story of a local advertising executive putting together a life changing campaign “NO” to remove Augusto Pinochet from presidency after many years. It has been tasked to compare and contrast how the political campaign works in regards to presidency elections. The way Chile runs its campaign to dethrone their dictator Augusto Pinochet is very similar to how the US carries out their campaign for presidential elections. The main similarity is Chile