Y tu Mama Tambien

Ok, so I thought that Julio looked familiar...he is actually the same actor who played Ernesto in Motorcycle Diaries. And just an FYI, the short film we saw before actually seeing this film was just that a short film, it was NOT the ending to this film.



I really don't know where to start with this film, it was very sexual in nature, and when I searched for appropriate pictures to place on my blog, I found that the title means "And your mother, too".

The film itself focuses on two boys at the beginning of adulthood: Julio, from a leftist middle-class family, and Tenoch, whose father is a high-ranking political official. The film opens with scenes of each boy having sex with his girlfriend one last time before the girls leave on a trip to Italy. Without their girlfriends around, the boys quickly become bored.



At a wedding the boys meet Luisa, the wife of Tenoch's cousin Jano. Jano is a writer, and Jano tells Tenoch how to become a writer, it takes years of practice, with real life experiences.



The boys try to impress Luisa with a story about a beach called Heaven's Mouth. To them, it really doesn't exist, but later in the story, they find that it really does exist.

Luisa goes to the doctor, I thought that maybe she found out that she is pregnant, but in the end, it is something totally different, but it does explain her actions throughout the film. Jano goes out of town, and calls Luisa, he is drunk and he confesses to her that he has slept with another woman. Luisa hangs up the phone, she is very sad. Luisa calls Tenoch and asks if they are still going to the beach, Tenoch says yes, and he calls Julio and tells him its time to go. Neither of the boys have a car, so Julio gets the car from his sister who is protesting.



The three of them set off to find this beach, none of them having any idea whatsoever where it is. During their road trip, they have conversations about Julio and Tenoch's sex lives, and Luisa talks about her first love, who was killed in an accident.



They have some trouble with their car, so they spent the night in what seemed to be a hotel. Luisa called Jano and left him a goodbye note on the answering machine. Tenoch needed shampoo so he went to Luisa's room to ask her for some, and they have a sexual encounter. When Tenoch was taking too long, Julio came to see what was going on and saw the two of them. Upset, Julio went out into to swimming pool. Tenoch came out to talk to him, and Julio cofesses that he slept with Tenoch's girlfriend, this causes them to fight.



The next day while driving, Luisa hops into the back seat with Julio. Tenoch is irritated already, he stops the car and gets out. After Julio and Luisa's sexual encounter is over, Luisa talks to Tenoch, she said "This is what you wanted right?" Julio starts driving, and Tenoch confesses to Julio that he too slept with his girlfriend. This made Julio very angry. Luisa was fed up with it, and threatens to leave. She got her bags and started walking. After the boys settled down, they picked Luisa up and drove down a dirt road, finally finding an isolated beach.



They gradually start to relax, and have fun. They meet a family who provided them food and boat rides to other beaches. While in the boat, one of the boys asks what the name of one of the beaches was, and Esteban says "that's Heaven's Mouth". They go to the village. While in the village Luisa makes another final phone call to Jano. The three of them drink heavily, and later they end up in a room. The three of them start to have a very sexual encounter where the two boys are intimate with each other.



The next day, the boys woke up lying next to each other on the bed. Luisa was outside with Ana and the children. Julio states he has to get back to give his sister the care, and Tenoch says he has to get back before his parents start to worry. Luisa decides to stay with Ana and Esteban. The boys go back home, their girlfriends come back from Italy and break up with them. The boys go their seperate ways. About six months later the boys meet for coffee. They do not talk about what happened at the beach, they both looked awkward to talk to each other. Tenoch tells Julio that about a month after they left Luisa, she died. She had cancer all over. She knew about it before she went on the trip, but didn't want to tell anyone.



Both of the boys had new girlfriends. Tenoch was getting ready to go to the University to study Economics, and Juilo was getting ready to go to the community college to study biology. The boys never saw each other again.


The film has periodic narratives explaining the backgrounds of the characters, events and settings, which sometimes draw attention to economic and political issues in Mexico, especially the situation of the poor in rural areas of the country.



This film not only depicts the actions and sexualities of the Spanish culture, but it also depicts our youth today right here in the US. We are use to having much more censorship in the US, so seeing such young people in sexual situations, is a culture shock to some. However, I have never heard the class laugh so much to a film this whole semester as I did to Y tu Mama Tambien!




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El Viaje de Carol

Carol, a teenager girl, whose dad is American and whose mother is from Spain, travels for the first time to Spain in 1938 with her mother. How does she fight against the conventionalisms found in this new culture? How does her American background interfere with her efforts to adapt to the new culture in Spain?



This was a very difficult film to screen without subtitles. I could tell however, that in the first scene where Tomi took Carol's hat, he thought she was weird because she dressed like a boy, also her hair is very short, where all the other little girls had long hair.



So of course I had to watch this film to get a better understanding of what I saw the first time.

The film starts with Carol and her mother Aurora on a train to Aurora's hometown in Spain. While on the train, a boy with a priest looks at Aurora in amazement that she is lighting a cigarette. When they arrive at the train station, they are met by Aurora's father Don Amallio.



While Carol, Aurora and Don are riding to Don's home on a horse buggy, three boys are in the woods shooting birds, one lands on Carol and she throws something at Tomiche. Tomiche in turn takes Carols hat and calls her a weirdo.



They go to the cemetary to visit Aurora's mother's grave. Carol asks Don why her mother and grandmother argued. He told her its hard to explain to a child, and Carol told her grandfather that in New York, grandparents told the truth. So Don told her that they argued because she married her father.

When they arrived to the house, Carol explores the house and the yard. She sees the boys outside at the river. Don gives Aurora a letter that arrived a week earlier from Robert, her husband who is in the US military. Aurora asks her father to come live with them, but he does not want to leave the spa.

They leave to go to Aurora's sisters house, but before they leave, Maruja sees Aurora and Aurora introduces her to her daughter Carol. Maruja was Aurora's teacher and best friend.

They arrive at Dolores' house. They have dinner, and then they dance. Dolores is suspicious of Aurora with her husband Adrian, who are on the balcony smoking a cigarette.

Carol is upset, and Aurora tells her that she has never lied to her about anything. If there was anything they needed to own up to, she would tell her. Carol requested to go to bed.

Aurora visits Maruja and talks to her about her relationship with Robert, and how they have drifted apart. She then tells Maruja that she is dying, and she came back home to die there.



Carols grandfather brings her a bike as a present. Carol is waiting for the boys to arrive by a field. She sees Tomi and his friends and gets up. Tomi has her hat on. He approaches her and asks "What are you looking at weirdo?" Carol replies "fairy". Carol struggles to get her hat back from Tomi, once she gets away, she kicks him in is "knackers". Carols speeds off on her bike. Maruja sees Carols all scuffed up and invites her in. Maruja fixes Carol's overalls, and then shows her the room with the worms and coccoons. That night, Carol hears someone come in, she goes downstairs and sees a man with an envelope, and Aurora give him 15 pesetas for it. It was a letter from Robert.

Carol wants to teach Chana how to read and write. She gave her a lesson on vowels. Carol goes out in the yard to see her mother sitting on the swing, Carol goes back in the house to read the letter from her father. She then reads the letter that her mother wrote her father. She goes back out to the yard, and finds her mother dead in the swing.

Carol is taken to her Aunt and Uncles house to live because they have children. Carol makes her grandfather promise that he will not tell her father that her mother has died, because he is already alone. Her grandfather told her only under one condition, that she behave for her aunt and uncle. Carol agreed.



Carol goes to the cemetary to visit her mother, to tell her not to worry, she will be alright, the war will be over soon, and she will be with her father. Tomi, Pebbles and Cagurrio are in the cemetary. Tomi talks to Carol about making amends, and tells Carol not to leave anything on the tomb stone, because someone will take it. As they were getting ready to leave, the police try to take Tomi away for killing pigeons on Adrian's land, but Carol tells them he is her friend, and he had permission from Adrian, and they let him go.

Tomi brings Maruja an apple pie, and he tries to leave, but Maruja and his mother had an agreement that she would give lessons to Tomi, so he had to stay to complete his lesson. He asks Maruja how do you tell a girl you like them, and she tells him he should tell her she is pretty.

Tomi and his gang meet up with Carol and her cousin, they go to a field where they smoke and drink. Each kids rolls down the hill, the last one to go is a "fairy". When Carol rolls down, Tomi catches her, and tells her she is pretty. Cagurrio is the last one, and Carol's little cousin starts calling him a fairy. When Carol and her cousin get home, Carol's aunt Dolores is irrate about how they look and what time they got home. Dolores tells Carol she is just like her mother and Carol tells her, "At least I am not like you!" Dolores sends the girls to their room and tells them they are not to have lunch. Carol sneaks out the window,gets on her bike and finds her grandfather. Carol wants to live with him, but he doesn't want to move back into that big house, with so many old memories. But Carol talks him into it because she is just as stubborn as her mother.

The next day, when Carol comes home, she sees "yanqui hijo de puta" (Yankee son of a bitch) on the wall of her house. She is very upset. When she tells her grandfather about it, he says that it is best not to do anything about it and pretend its not there. Carol is very unhappy with his way of thinking. She goes out to the yard and climbs in a tree. When her grandfather comes out with a letter to her dad, she stays in the tree until he walks away, then she gets down to read it. Still mad at her grandfather, she walks right past him without saying a word.

Carol goes to visit Maruja and has her write a letter to her father, without telling him the Aurora has died. At first Maruja doesn't want to write the letter, but Carol tells her that her mother would not have cared if he was not told. After the letter is written, Carol finds Tomi and he gets his smuggler friend to send the letter for Carol after Carol pays him 15 pesetas. While Tomi and Carol are walking, they hide because a car drives up. Tomi tells Carol they are going for a "walk". Carol doesn't understand, so Tomi tells her that the men go to dinner, then get really drunk, then they take a poor devil for a "walk" and kill him.



When Carol gets home, her grandfather is painting the outside of the house. Carol is very happy. The next day, a Priest and Dolores pay a visit to Don and talk about getting Carol into the Catholic church. That she will be a blacksheep if she doesn't become a Catholic. Don tells them that Carol is a Protestant, and they tell him she needs to change. Don tells them he is not going to force it on Carol, it has to be her decision. So they ask Carol if she wants to receive first communion, and Carol says of course, but under one condition. Dolores said there are no conditions in the Catholic church. Carol says "I will do it if I can wear the taylor suit." Her grandfather laughs.



Carol and Tomi are at the river, and Tomi is fishing for crawdads. Carol really starts liking Tomi and she kisses him. They go for a walk and go to a secret hiding place of Tomi's that even his buddies don't know about. Its a bell tower.



Carol is having a birthday party. She does not want to blow out the candles on the cake until her friends arrive (Tomi, Pebbles and Cagurrio). When they arrive, Carol is about to blow out the candles when a plane flies over them. It's Carol's dad. The children run out to the street, the church bells ring like there is an invasion happening, the police show up, and some federal officials. The plane flies over a couple of times. One man tries to gun the plane down, then a box is thrown out of the plane, and the officials thought it was a bomb, but it was a present to Carol. It landed in her grandfathers backyard. She opens it and its a plane and a card from her father.

Carol and others are at the church for their 1st communion. When Carol is about to receive the blessed sacrament, a man busts into the church screaming "Madrid's fallen, Long live Franco." The priest does not give her the communion, and her grandfather takes her home. Her grandfather starts ripping things up like a map, and books "La Republica" and burns them.

Carols tries to send her father another letter, but the smuggler won't do it. There just isn't anywhere to send a letter from now. Tomi walks her home. While Tomi is walking himself home, his uncle sees him, he is drunk, he tells Tomi it's time to settle a few scores.

At the train station, several service men get off the train, they all walk together, one is noticed to be walking in a different direction, and a man tells him to stop, the man turns around, its Robert, Carol's father, he starts running. The man starts shooting at him. Carol hears something, so she goes downstairs, and sees her dad. He tells her he misses her. Carol sits up and watches him sleep.



The next day, federal officials come to Don's house looking for a foreigner. When they look throughout the house, they could tell he was there, but now is gone. So they go out by the river to look for him. Carol and Tomi show up, they go inside. Chana tells Carol about the men looking for her father, and that he is hiding out by the river. Carol and Tomi go out. Tomi leaves Carol in the yard, while he goes through the woods looking for Robert. Tomi finds Robert and tries to get Robert across the river, when the man fires a single shot, Robert pulls Tomi into the river, but it's too late, the bullet hits Tomi. Robert pulls Tomi out of the water, and Carol comes running.



Carol is leaving to go back to New York with her father's grandparent. Maruja gives her Tomi's sling hot, and they drive off. Don tells Carol that her father is a POW of a great country, and he shouldn't be held for too long. While driving down the road, Pebbles and Cagurrio yell good-bye to Carol as they follow the car on their bikes, and Carol sees Tomi riding his bike with her hat on.



Carol was very free-spirited, she did things her way! I think that the way she dressed made people look at her differently. But once they got to know her, she got along with them pretty well. I think that Dolores and Aurora were like night and day, and Dolores was hoping to change Carol, but that wasn't going to happen. Carol was just like her mother. I think that Carol was able to make adjustments to her new home, but still had the American Fiestiness in her.

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**~**Volver**~**

This was a pretty good movie. It did keep you in suspense, just as a "mystery" should. I found the theme of the movie was muerte (death).






The movie starts out with women in a graveyard, cleaning graves. We are introduced to Raimunda, her daughter Paula, Raimunda's sister Sole, and long-time friend Agustina. After the women clean the graveyard, Raimunda, Paula and Sole go and visit Aunt Paula. Aunt Paula lives on her own and Raimunda is worried that she can no longer take care of herself. Raimunda suggests that Aunt Paula come live with her, and the next time she comes to visit she will bring Aunt Paula to her house. Meanwhile, Sole needs to use the bathroom and sees her mother's spirit sitting in a chair, and also sees an exercise bike in the room, which she thinks is odd considering Aunt Paula can barely walk. The women leave Aunt Paula's with food that has been prepared and packaged individually for them with their names on it, and go to Agustina's house. The women chat for a little while and once Agustina lights up a joint, the women leave.



Raimunda and Paula arrive at home to find Paco sitting on the couch drinking and watching TV. Paula sits in a chair not lady like while wearing a skirt and Paco is taking peaks. Raimunda tells Paula to sit right. Paco informs Raimunda that he lost his job. The next day, when Raimunda gets off the bus, Paula is there to meet her. She is very sad, they get to the apartment and that is where Raimunda finds Paco dead in the kitchen. Paula explains to Raimunda what happened, and Raimunda tells her that whatever is asked, tell people that she did this. Raimunda starts cleaning up the mess. Someone comes to the door and it's the Emilio the man who owns the restaurant next door. He leaves the keys with Raimunda so that she can show the restaurant to potential buyers while he is away.



Raimunda and Paula transfer Paco's body to the restaurant where Raimunda places it into a deep freezer. Meanwhile, Raimunda receives a phone call from Sole about Aunt Paula dying. Raimunda insists that she can not attend the funeral and to tell everyone that she is having surgery.



While Sole is at the funeral, she sees her mother's spirit again, and she starts learning about the spirit of her mother showing up from time to time in the town. After she leaves Aunt Paula's and returns to her home, she hears the voice of her mother coming from her car. She lets her out and they go into her apartment. Sole runs an illegal hair salon, and she uses her mother and a shampoo girl, and tells her to pretend she is Russian and can't speak Spanish because her clients know that she is dead.



Meanwhile, Raimunda reopened the restaurant to cook for a film crew. They come everyday for dinner. Raimunda doesn't have a lot of money, so she relies on her friends in the neighborhood, and barters and trades for food to cook for the crew.



Raimunda takes Paula to Sole's house and leaves her there so she can tend to some business. Raimunda rents a van, and gets her neighborhood friends to help her get the deep freeze into the van. Raimunda gets Regina to ride with her to bury the deep freeze at the river 180 KM away.



While Paula is at Sole's house, she meets her grandmother Irene. Sole and Paula keep Irene a secret from Raimunda. Raimunda never had a good relationship with her mother. Raimunda is very suspicious of something going on because there are certain smells in Sole's house that remind her of her mother.



Finally, Raimunda is told of her mother visiting Sole. Raimunda and Irene finally talk, and Irene tells her that she is sorry for what happened with her father. The story is that Raimunda's father raped her, and Paula is actually her daughter and sister. When Irene found out about the abuse, and the fact that her father was sleeping with Agustina's mother, she had enough. She snuck into her house where Raimunda's father and Agustina's mother were and caught it on fire. Irene survived. She hid out for a few days, then went to live at Aunt Paula's house, and helped her clean and cook for the last 4 years until Aunt Paula died. The person actually buried besides her father is actually Raimunda's mother.



Agustina is diagnosed with cancer, and is on a quest to find her mother before she dies. Raimunda never tells Agustina about her mother's demise. The women, Raimunda, Irene, Paula and Sole return to Aunt Paula's house. Irene decides to show up at Agustina's house as a spirit to look over her until she dies.



At the heart of Volver is the family an institution as necessary to life as breathing. In Volver, this institution is seen from the perspective of women. The love that binds families together also tears them apart. Families both empower individuals and condemn them to suffer, force them into lives which go off track because of buried family secrets.



Can you identify the tension between superstitious beliefs and real life aspects through the film? Provide at least two examples.

One superstitious belief in the film was the spirit of Irene. The towns people saw Irene a few times and this seemed to be normal with people who died, because she had unfinished business to take care of. Another superstitious belief was reference to the wind. The East wind the day of the fire at Raimunda's parents house and how it causes people to go crazy.



Overall it was a good film, I enjoyed it very much.

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Guantanamera

What strong aspects of Hispanic culture are represented vividly in this film? What are some of these aspects that you think characterize the Cuban culture? Please support your ideas and discussion with clear examples from the film

There were many aspects of Hispanic culture and specifically Cuban culture represented in this film. Many of which were music, food, drinks, family, religion, and politics.



The song Guantanamera is a Cuban "folk song". It tells the story of a man who loves a woman but loses her. In the film it tells the story of the journey from Guantanamo to Havana. "Guantanamera" means the woman from Guantanamo. In the chorus "Guantanamera, guajira, Guantanamera" guajira is Cuban slang for a female from the countryside. It is also a Cuban style of music, song or dance. Also throughout the film you would hear some good salsa music. I totally understood Candido, when he wanted the cab driver to turn the music off. Of course Adolfo showed his machismo when he turned to Candido and told him he wanted it on to hear the weather. But Candido was persistent that he didn't want to listen to music at that time, because he was mourning, and did not feel that it was a time to celebrate.

Food was seen throughout the film. It seems that coffee is the beverage of choice, because it was offered throughout the film. Both the cabdriver and Mariano use the Black Market to make extra money. As they travel across the island, they buy food such as bananas, garlic and turkeys to be resold at a higher price when they arrive in Havana.

When they reach Bayamo there was a tour guide telling the story of the city. This scene is a reference to contemporary Cuba.

"During the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries, Bayamo was the most important smuggling center on the island. In this way they made a mockery of restrictions and the rigid trade monolopy of the Spanish Crown which stifled economic growth. Illegal trade with the English, French and Dutch was practiced by all the locals including the administrative, military, and religious authorities. Their dealings with the Protestants, branded as heretics not only influenced economic growth, but also affected cultural and polictical life. Throught this channel, the doors were opened for books banned by the inquistion and the liberal and progressive ideas of the time. It was no coincidence that Bayamo was the first city to rise in arms against the colonial domination which was stifling the development of the country."

After Gina buys the dress that Adolfo despises her in, the story of Olofin is told. Olofin made men and women but did not make death. The men and women got too old and tired. Iku brings out rains and floods for 30 days and 30 nights and only children could climb the trees and go to higher ground. The Earth was then cleaned and more beautiful because of the end of immortality.

Family is very important in the Hispanic culture. Family ties were very apparent in the film. You saw this with Gina and Aunt Yoyita. Although Candidto was not officially family, he was very welcomed by Gina, and invited to travel with her and Adolfo to get Aunt Yoyita to her hometown of Havana where she could rest in peace. You saw throughout the film that families would get together at the funerals. I found it weird that they would have to have a ticket to get food at the funeral. Adolfo did not show that he was a "family man", but he did show that the culture of Cuban men being dominate over women.



The paths of Mariano's truck and Adolfo's troublesome car with Adolfo, Gina and Candido as passengers, keep crossing. Both background and foreground keep pointing to the shortages of everything in Cuba, where one-table "secret" restaurants spring up, where a fan-belt is a small treasure, where coupons are needed for many things, even in a cemetery's cantina, where the car's riders munch bananas from the subterranean economy as the radio spouts positive agricultural statistics.

I found this film to be very interesting, some things we have seen in other films like in Motorcycle diaries, people traveling to find work, food, etc., and in Like Water for Chocolate, the abusiveness of a man with a woman.





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La Historia Oficial

The film begins five years after Alicia, a high school history teacher and, Roberto, a wealthy businessman and lawyer with close ties to the military junta, had adopted a baby girl named Gaby.



Alicia starts wondering about the real parents of Gaby, a topic her husband has told her to forget as it was a condition of the adoption. Yet, he knows the story of his daughter's adoption. While hard to believe, Alicia, as other members of the Argentine middle class, are not aware of how much killing and suffering has gone on in the country, until her students begin to complain that the "government approved" History books given to them were written by the regime's "assassins".



After Ana, Alicia's long time friend, returns from her exile in Europe, Alicia begins to do some political and personal research on her own. Ana had been tortured by ultra-right paramilitary forces loyal to the brutal Argentine regime for having lived with a so-called subversive man.



Alicia learns the identity of Gaby's grandmother, Sara, who reveals the identity of the girl's disappeared parents. She finds out that her husband played a major role in the regime's repression and participated in intensive dealings with foreign business representatives. At a family dinner, Roberto has an intense political argument with his father and brother, where he supports the political point of view of the ruling conservative military, and his father and brother argue from the side of social justice.



The film suggests that Sara may not actually be Gaby's real grandmother, and briefly explores the fact that Gaby's true family may never be known. This combination of fact and emotion are meant to suggest the mood of hope and hopelessness in reaction to a war environment.

The film ends with a confrontation between Alicia and her husband. He wants her to forget about the past and look to the future. When Roberto is told that Gaby is not home, Alicia responds: "how does it feel not knowing where your child is?" Although she tells him that Gaby is at his mother's house, he becomes enraged and assaults her, but is interrupted by the telephone ringing. He answers it, and starts talking to his mother. Alicia gets her purse to leave, indicating that she no longer can live with him.



At the conclusion of the film we see Gaby sitting alone in a rocking chair singing El país de no me acuerdo, the same nursery song of doubt and fear that she sang at the beginning of the film, apparently condemned to relive Alicia’s life.

In spite of this seemingly tragic ending, there are hopeful signs pointing toward positive changes in the future.

1. The mothers’ insistent demonstrations and their push for change in the streets seem to foretell a greater political role for Latin American women in the future.



2. The fact that Alicia’s friend Ana is able to return to Argentina after being tortured and exiled can be interpreted as a civil triumph over military dictatorship.

3. The students’ rejection of the ‘official story,’ the government’s account of Argentina’s present as well as its past, looks toward an awakening among Hispanic youth regarding Latin America’s history and the possibility of making a better future based on its lessons.

4. Alicia’s quest for the truth can be interpreted as a hopeful desire to confront social reality and find positive solutions to existing problems.

Alicia, was orphaned at an early age when her parents were killed in a car accident. However, her grandparents, wanted to spare her the pain of knowing her parents’ fate and withheld the truth from her. This resulted in Alicia feeling abandoned, uncertain and alone (HOPELESSNESS). Throughout the film, Alicia seeks the truth about Gaby (HOPE), and the truth leads to the destruction of her marriage and puts Gaby’s own future in doubt. As it concludes, Alicia once again is alone and facing personal uncertainty.



Roberto's lower-class immigrant family was forced to flee Spain during the civil war, and, apart from Roberto, remains stuck in economic hardship. By the conclusion of the film, Roberto too is loosing everything, his job, his security and his family in a sort of inevitable decline to his original roots.



Roberto’s father and brother suffered a downward spiral. The father not only lost his own country, but also his oldest son. He has failed to instill in him his own sense of ethics (HOPELESSNESS). The relationship between the two is strained; they have not spoken for months before they meet for a family luncheon, which ends in argument and unpleasantness. The brother has lost his wife and business, women reject him, and, according to his father, he appears to have developed a love of alcohol. He has had to return home to live with his parents and raise his three sons.

Is there hope for Gaby? I am not sure if Gaby will return to Alicia or not. But I do think that there is hope for Gaby. Gaby was being brought up in a good home, and treated very well. Values are instilled in children at a young age, and if they learn good values, they tend to use those values and continue on to be productive adults. I think that once Gaby finds out about her biological parents, she will be right out there every Thursday like the rest of the mothers' protesting for a change.