This film is a very good fairy tale. The characters were quite rounded and the writing is excellent. You get very invested in the story very quickly. I was certainly drawn in.
Spoiler alert after this point:
The end was the part I found to be a cop out and not realistic at all. In today's America there would be no happy ending. The girl would have gone to detention and been raped and abused there until she was deported back to her impoverished country. The boy would have been unceremoniously dumped into Mexico to become a victim of gangs and there would not be one chance in hell that he would be able to return to the USA to go to university. There would also not be any sort of a decent chance that lawyers would take this case on pro bono or even on spec and I am skeptical of there even being a judge that would be as fair as this one. The rich people would win. They have money for better lawyers.
As much as it was nice to see justice done in the film, I really think that Americans need to see what the reality is in order for them to understand what crimes are being perpetrated against good honest innocent people every single day.
I read about one of those crimes just TODAY.
I would love to see more films being made about "illegals" and how they are NOT harmful to the country. About how they are being scapegoated by the ultra rich in order to deflect blame for the unconscionable wealth gap in America.
Spoiler alert after this point:
The end was the part I found to be a cop out and not realistic at all. In today's America there would be no happy ending. The girl would have gone to detention and been raped and abused there until she was deported back to her impoverished country. The boy would have been unceremoniously dumped into Mexico to become a victim of gangs and there would not be one chance in hell that he would be able to return to the USA to go to university. There would also not be any sort of a decent chance that lawyers would take this case on pro bono or even on spec and I am skeptical of there even being a judge that would be as fair as this one. The rich people would win. They have money for better lawyers.
As much as it was nice to see justice done in the film, I really think that Americans need to see what the reality is in order for them to understand what crimes are being perpetrated against good honest innocent people every single day.
I read about one of those crimes just TODAY.
I would love to see more films being made about "illegals" and how they are NOT harmful to the country. About how they are being scapegoated by the ultra rich in order to deflect blame for the unconscionable wealth gap in America.