The Ministers (2009)
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How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer (2005)
sorry all its late but I had a long day and the. I couldn’t get into my account but for the night owls I am writing about the film How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer. This film was directed by Geogina Riedd and released in 2005. The story takes place in a small town in guess where ladies and gentlemen, Arizona! This is a typical story of love but with some what might be not so typical circumstances.
The story has similarities to Real Women Have Curves dealing with three generations of women and their views on life and love. America Ferrera also has a leading role as seventeen year old Blanca that learns the joys of love when it’s good and the dagger stabbing repeatedly when it’s down! With a mother who is confused and looking for love and makes a married man her interest and a grandma who is “getting her groove back” Blanca really has to go at it alone.
Relating the film to our course really isn’t easy for me. Unlike most of the films we have screened I didn’t think this film had the obvious messages. I don’t think this was a mexipliotation even with a pretty much all Latino cast. There was really not a type of White Gaze so I would say points made were hidden if any. I did notice the occasional music or the jokes relayed in Spanish but it’s about Latino women so that was good to me for the connection. There was rebellion against the Spanish culture no quenicera or the modern American views on marriage but those point could have been made by any also the adjustment to living in a moden day America. Honestly I feel that the film was made by a Latino woman for Latino people. The story was relatable for some entertainment for others and just a story. I don’t think that it would be different for black or white women but as I stated the Spanish humor stood out. Overall I would say a good Mother’s Day film or maybe teen flick. Not bad, yet not giving the title of awesome. The balance of humor in a drama was done well. The cast I will say were pretty good and that always matters.
Mr. Chavez (2014)
I’m posting about the film Cesar Chavez. The biography came out in 2014. Sadly to say I didn’t know anything about Cesar Chavez other than he was a Latino male who’s birthday we didn’t have to go to work on the date. I thought that the film would be a little bubble gum because the director Diego Luna had Michael Pena and America Ferrera as the leading actors. I had only seen the two actors in comedies and didn’t know if I could take them serious. Both Pena and Ferrera did a great job in the film,
The film discusses the life of Cesar Chavez and his fight for equal rights for Latino farm workers in the late fifties and sixties, I had no idea that Chavez and his activists started a credit union and labor union. Also fought for fair wages for the farm workers. He was nonviolent protesting and fasting for equality and social justice.
The film could be viewed by different people different ways. It was the legal and illegal migrant workers, one group wanting more and the other just trying to get what they can to survive. I didn’t read the reviews I like to just jump into a film without knowing what others think so that it doesn’t alter my judgement. I happened to like the film and think that it was informative, there were a few scenes that had extras added to show the extent of the situation then but overall I thought it was a good film.
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Toinye
So I’ve been meaning to introduce myself but myself is always busy! I have two boys and a husband still recovering from brain stem damage I live in Perris and work for the department of Conservation.
I’m an Anthro major with a minor in Interdisciplinary Studies and will be graduating in December 2016! I think you guys are a friendly group hope to learn and grow while gaining perspective to another culture and even applying it to my life now