This movie should be mandatory viewing for anyone living in border states (I grew up in Dallas and currently live in San Antonio)...
Think about it--what's more "American" than wanting a better life?
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Respecting laws is more "American" than a vague desire that every human possesses. And the rich people this film shows hiring illegals to save some pocket money should be deported as well.
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This must be why the USA has the highest incarceration rate in the world, by far. The number of imprisoned people per 100,000 is about 25% higher than the second-highest country (Russia). In fact, the prison population in America is the largest in the world, at ~2.3 million. Compare that to China's ~1.6 million despite them having a population over four times the size of the United States.
What a simple, little universe you live in.
Being such a law-abiding patriot, you, of course, would have insisted on being shot to death by the death squads or on running off to starve to death in hiding.
It's a film that attempts to humanize two desperate refugees; how very brave of you to remain immune to that effort.
I just noticed that: In the beginning, Arturo tells his son Enrique that "all they (the finca bosses) see us as is a pair of strong arms". In the end, full circle.
"No more half-measures."
It was sad to see Enrique broken down to being the "pair of arms" by story's end that his father warned him about, after having such a good shot at a more professional level of the service industry, and certainly having the acumen for it. The Mexican-American server that ratted on him was such a punk. I'll bet the service at that restaurant declined, too, with the sullen, entitled "American" taking waiter's assistant job from the determined and charismatic Enrique.
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