Y Tu Mama Tambien film review
Film Response to Y Tu Mama Tambien The film Y Tu Mama Tambien was a shocking Mexican film that was directed by Alfonso Cuaron and was released in 2001. It tells the story of two teenage boys, Tenoch and Julio, and a young woman named Luisa, as the three of them take a road trip to a mythical beach that didn’t exist known as “Heaven’s Mouth.” The film was considered extremely controversial because of numerous sex scenes. It was also noteworthy because it portrayed the actual political and economic conditions of those living in Mexico at the end of the PRI’s reign. Underneath the explicit sex, the movie is really a critique of Mexico’s two sides under the PRI, in which the modern and wealthy outward appearance was hiding the reality that the majority of the people were poor and dealing with terrible living conditions. The personal histories of the main characters suggest that class boundaries and political corruption were still very real and tangible problems in late twentieth century Mexico. The film is filled with juxtapositions of the two sides of Mexico, which was the major critique of the PRI. In the beginning of the movie, the boys were joking about girls and were upset about being stuck in a traffic jam on the highway. As they moved farther up the street, it became clear that the traffic jam was caused by the death of a poor bricklayer from Michoacán who had been hit by a car. The narrator revealed that the man always had to jay-walk because the only pedestrian bridge in the area was so poorly located that it would have caused him to have to walk two extra miles to get to work. This is a subtle critique of the PRI and how as a ruling party they did not do much to actually help improve the lives of the people in Mexico. Luisa’s character also seemed to represent this contrast in lifestyles within Mexico that was a major critique of the PRI. She appeared at first to be beautiful and seductive to the outside world. Throughout the movie, it became clear