A Better Life

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Analysis People always seek for better opportunities and happiness. A Better Life, a film directed by Chris weitz. The movie was released in 2011. A Better life, based on a story by Roger L. Simon, written by Eric Eason. A Better Life won six other awards and was also nominated for one Oscar. Some movies are funny which makes you laugh till your stomach hurts and some movies makes tears roll down your eyes. A Better Life is mainly about a father, who struggles as a gardener to find prosperity in the eastern L.A. I really enjoyed the movie and the actors of the movie fit the characters. Demian Bichir plays the character, as Carlos Galindo. Carlos Galindo is an important character in the movie. Carlos Galindo is a very honest and hardworking person. Amy Biancolli says,” his every move is cautious, the deliberate behavior of a man who aims only to “stay quiet…. And try to stay invisible “He is a great father who has been struggling his life to earn some good money and wants best for his son called Luis Galindo. Carlos Galindo has presented himself as a great father. Like other parents, he wants to give best for his son. Carrie Rickey says, “ Demian Bichir in a performance as modest and as epic as the movie he’s in.” He wants to give his son all the luxurious and facilities that he never got in his whole life. Carlos was always concerned about his son. For example: Carlos sleeps in the sofa in the living room and let his son to sleep in the bed in a single room. Luis asks Carlos for the money but he denies giving it to him. He wants his son to learn we do not get the money easily, we need to earn it but his son gets upset as well as mad with him. Carlos works for his friend Blasco who owns the truck and is planning to move back to his country Mexico. I like the part where Blasco as a friend wants Carlos to buy his truck and offers his clients as well. But, due
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