On the recommendation of a couple of friends, we watched Spanglish last night. Father Bear expected me not to like it (I was violently opposed to 50 First Dates and judging by the cover this promised to be very similar!) But it wasn’t. I’d heard it was a bit of a philosophical movie (right up my alley), and indeed it did not diappoint. I knew somewhere in the movie was an intentional comment on the great American (and I would say “modern western”) concept of “having space”…..I had to wait for the last three minutes of the movie to hear it! Mexican mum insisted to becoming-Americanised-daughter “There is no space between us”. Lots of room for discussion with that one!
Some other great lines included:
“We get guilt. We’re Catholic.”
(no offense intended to any of my Catholic readers, but isn’t it true? All my Catholic friends are big on the guilt thing….and the ex-Catholics I know all seem to have worked through it….so it would appear to me that it is a bit of a Catholic thing.)
“Lately the low self-esteem you’ve been experiencing is a just a dose of good common sense.” Or something like that – you get the gist. Very funny!
There were half a dozen more, but can I remember them?
It was a great conversation primarilly about culture, responsibility and family, with a weak bit of reconciliation thrown in.
Well worth watching. But, that said, by the end of the movie I was disappointed that the director had deemed it necessary to include the bedroom scene - this is not something I think anyone needs to *watch*, especially not unmarried young adults. It’s a pity -because there were so many great ideas in the rest of the movie. Why do they do it?????
well then, a movie that i haven’t seen that you have, lol X
This one was a goodie.
We too really enjoyed it.