Wednesday, July 12, 2006

Un día sin Mexicano(s) / A day without Mexican(s)

I just watched "A day without Mexican(s)" (I'm adding the "s" because I had heard that it was "Mexicans" in Spanish). WHAT A STUPID PIECE OF CRAP! Do not waste your money and time renting this piece of bullshit; it's just badly written, badly acted and badly directed. If Sergio Arau wanted to put together a documentary, a la "Fahrenheit 9/11", then that's what he should have produced... If he wanted to put together a stupid funny movie, then he could have done so, but making a pretentious pseudo-documentary with factoids thrown into the screen as pointers to the situation being acted simply works against the movie and its purpose. Yes, I kind of agree with the movie's main point (that illegal immigrants that have been here for a substantial amount of time and who have been productive in society should be allowed to become legal). However, depicting Whitey as being stupid, greedy, inarticulate, incapable and unable to function without Brownie is just too much and harms the seriousness of the film, it's kind of the same thing that happens with "V for Vendetta" or however that other piece of pretentious pseudo-propaganda is called. I am for liberal causes but they need to be intelligently conceived and made in order to make a strong, poignant point, which this movie LARGELY fails to achieve. And that cheesy, corny, "feel good" ending! Unbearable! Impossible to witness, along with the "funny" scientists and all the rest of the crap that goes on in the screen. Grotesque.
Thanks, Sergio Arau, for producing this movie that doesn't really do anything to make justice to Hispanic immigrants who are willing to sacrifice everything in order to have a better life. I can't believe that IMCINE (or however the government's office that deals with cinematography is called now) supported and helped produce this movie... Don't our officials want to feel at least a little pride in the kind of projects they choose to give money to?

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