This movie showed no love to us non-spanish speakers. I'm fine with it being a movie about hispanics and stuff, but it's still an American movie. At first I was fine when it was just a few spanish lines here and there, but then they started having whole scenes in Spanish and no subtitles whatsoever.
Other than that, not a bad movie, but would have liked it more if they gave us the subtitles.
My thoughts exactly! I know just enough Spanish (from 2 years in high school, 38 years ago) to pick up a word here and there. I think that was more frustrating than if I knew no Spanish at all.
Is it a portend of the future, when the American language is Spanglish? According to CNN, by 2050 one in three Americans will be Hispanic. They will be the largest ethnic group, surpassing the current leader, the single-race whites. In fact, demographers say 2010 was the "tipping point" when the number of babies born to minorities outnumbers that of babies born to whites.
I thought that was a fluke.
On a side note I don't think folks should worry about the population. I doubt it will end up being that dramatic. Just from talking with young Latinos. Each successive is more culturally acclimated than the last meaning family size will decrease and since English is the language of business especially in America it won't be lost. There might an increase in Spanish loan words but I doubt it's something the general populous can't handle.
Pretty old, but I had subtitles.
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