so we finally watched our last film for this class"Y Tu Mama Tambien".i do not believe anyone walked away that Tuesday with no emotions about it.
I thought it was a good film, it gave a good and DETAILED picture/pictures about teenage wild life. i do not necessarily believe that it was a good film to learn Hispanic culture from, if anything, teenagers are the same everywhere, maybe in Mexico they are a little bit wilder?")i heard some opinions after the class and "porn with the plot" stayed in my mind. We live in American society, where mostly it is not okay to express your feelings about sexuality in general, and normally people are not comfortable with the topic.
as you remember, we did not have the chance to finish the film, but if a i had to guess this is the ending: the young woman's medical prognosis that the doctor gave in the beginning of the movie was that she is dying of cancer. Like she said on the phone while talking to her husband, she would have left him anyway, but him admitting of cheating made it so much easier. As far as the young teenage boys go, i believe she might have been their "angel" who opened up their eyes and showed them the road to each other(double meaning). Who knows, maybe if she had never agreed to go on that beach trip, the two boys would have never discovered themselves and have been searching for something all their lives, probably not even knowing what they are searching for.
Overall i was shocked that we watched this film during a Hispanic class and more shocked that UC professors sat around while making the curriculum and out of all the films about Hispanic culture came up with this film.who says these professors are not wicked?:)))))))
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I do not believe that the professors are wicked. I do believe that they think that we are not children, but adults, capable of handling a movie of this caliber.
ReplyDeleteThis movie demonstrated to me that the teenage years, at least in Latino culture, are the same as in the United States.
I know that all of you think that teenagers do not do any of this, but I think that you are deluding yourself. In your utopian world, teens probably stay home and play board games. NOT.
By the way, if you have not been in school for a long time. At my daughter's high school, they watched many adult themed movies, volunteers for AIDS came and showed them how to use condoms, they used vegetables to demonstrate and my daughter went on a field trip to Costa Rica and what she told me about her roommates made this movie look lame. Thankfully, she is much more of an introvert than I am, and also thought their behavior was innapropriate and disgusting.
I think this is a movie that should be shown in a class such as this.