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I truly enjoyed this film. It opened up my eyes to what undocumented people have to endure just to survive. Being the Capitalist/Republican that I am, prior to this class and watching the film, I was never interested in the issues concerning the undocumented group never the less the individual. It’s sad to say but my thought frame was “why don’t they just apply for the Visa and avoid the danger?” My lack of interest in the immigrant issue is also due to the fact that I was born in the United States and my mother came from the Dominican Republic legally therefore, I never really experience those issues hands on.
I connected with the movie on a maternal level. I can’t imagine leaving my son for more than a week, let alone four years. I started to imagine how difficult their living conditions must have been that she found herself with no other option, but to apart from her son by many miles. I was heart broken to see the desperation in Carlito’s after his grandmother passed away. What horror! This poor boy had to grow up so fast. He was stripped from his innocence all because of the poverty level in his country, caused by the United States.
I found it disturbing to see how the Mexican’s cross the border by any means necessary only to endure pure humiliation by the Americans. Carlito’s crossing over the border in the trunk of a car with no ventilation is completely insane. I just can’t imagine putting my son through all that pain not that that was his mother’s intentions.
The injustice that the undocumented face on a daily basis is infuriating; they cross over to do the jobs that no American wants to do for pennies and are treated as criminals. I was so upset to see how in the movie INS started to beat on the undocumented workers and kick them around as if they were animals.