In the scene where Marcos goes to meet Ana before their 'date', he waits for her outside her house. She returns from what presumably was a late night, in a car with some drunk guys, other girls and a couple of what look like 9 year olds(!?)
When the guys get out, before they go in the house they go to the back if the car and piss all over the suitcases in the boot/trunk, to the apparent delight of their young companions.
Q: WTF???
I don't think Ana was in that car. I think it was just a house adjacent to the brothel she works at. It looked like a group of people coming from some function... a wedding or a funeral. I feel like that scene was meant show bourgeois Mexicans as spoiled, reckless and stupid. When you're drunk you piss anywhere and they probably thought it would be funny to do that and it kinda was... the young girls certainly thought so but of course they're ruining their own property so it's stupid. Marcos looks at that scene feels so far away from it. Ana is in their social class. Marcos is of a lower social strata.
shareThere is some definite social commentary going on in this scene as well. Looked at as a critique of patriarchy, the two boys are either marking their territory - like animals - or simply showing off for the girls, in the most vulgar/hyper-masculine way possible; seen as a critique of capitalism and the ruling class, the boys know it's not they who will have to clean up the mess, and sure enough the maids come out and do.
shareAnd it's the oposite when Marcos is at the gas station and the people who got down of the car, they are from his own social status, and it's looks like they came from a wedding also...
sharethat's an interesting observation. I never made that connection.
shareTHAT is a great catch! Nice work.
Also, I thought it hilarious that the feeble matriarch who got out of the car at the gas station made it sufficiently clear that the classical music wasn't appropriate, and effectively was representative of the lower class telling the movie makers to stop that pretentious nonsense German music. And they did.