Harmony at Home

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Alejandra Vazquez UAS 1310 15 February 2013 Harmony at Home Is your family perfect? The idea of the “perfect” model family is so widely accepted, due to the attention that it receives in the media. “Harmony at Home” is the image of the model family consisting of a housewife-mother, a breadwinner father, a couple of kids, and a pet or two in a little spacious suburban house. This is the dream of most Americans, but not all dreams come true. Being realistically, we know that nothing in this world is perfect. “An Indian Story” by Roger Jack, and the movie “Under the Same Moon” exemplify imperfect families, yet similar to the myth of the model family. They both have plenty similarities and both deliver the message that even though the protagonists have absences in their lives, they still have positive reasons to be happy. Under the Same Moon is a cast mostly made up of popular Spanish-language television stars that puts human faces on the dehumanizing debate on immigration. This film is one of the best movies I have seen. It is about a 9-year-old boy known as Carlitos who has been living with his sickly grandmother, Benita, in their small Mexican hometown in hopes that his mother, Rosario, will either return from L.A., where she's working two jobs as an undocumented domestic in a wealthy gated community, or even better, arranges for him to join her in the U.S. Carlitos’ parents got divorced since he was very little, his father cheated on his mom. During the story, Carlitos goes to school and does odd jobs for Dona Carmen, a local businesswoman who organizes illegal border crossings for Mexican workers. Carlitos is always anxious waiting for Sunday mornings when Rosario (his mom) calls him from the same pay phone on a busy corner in East L.A. Their conversations are lovely but at the same time sad. It is hard for Carlitos and his mom to be far apart,
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