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A Day Without A Clue
by Luis G (movies profile)
Jul 3, 2006
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140 people found this review helpful
If there's one thing more frustraing than the lack of Latinos in the film industry, it's the opportunity wasted in a movie whose efforts would've been better invested in a well developed script.
A Day Without A Mexican is the usual banter of Latinos versus white people, in a climate that uses all the stereotypical dialogue of an amateur writer. After 30 minutes of watching this film, I began to pray heavily for somebody, anybody, to steer this film in the right direction. Unfortunately, my prayers were not answered. Had I been at been home watching this on television, I would've quickly changed the channel. But being in a theater and having paid my hard earned money for a ticket, I toughed it out 'till the very the end.
Please don't get me wrong, I'll be the first to applaud the creators of this movie for their achievement. It's difficult enough to get a movie done in Hollywood without having to bow down to executive decisions. And to independently finance a feature, well, it's almost next to impossible. Then, there's the task of finding a distributor to get the film into theaters and to properly promote it. The filmmakers of A Day Without A Mexican have done all of the above, and should be rewarded heavily.
But as a film that stands among a select few representing the Mexican community, it's frustrating that an excellent story idea such as this, was poorly executed, thanks to a terrible script.
How many times must we see the same exhange of dialogue between a poor Mexican and the affluent caucasian? Yes, Mexicans are degraged on a daily basis by white people. Yes, Mexicans are paid dirt poor wages for tough, physical labor. And yes, Mexicans are responsible for the daily management of the entire state of California. And for those too ignorant to recogize this, or too sheltered or racist to acknowledge this, just try to imagine a life without the work of a Mexican, and you may also start crying for their return.
It's at this point that you start to think that this film would've been better suited as a documentary. Why not? These days, documentaries are of a different breed. They're winning Academy Awards and making big business at the box office. Just ask Michael Moore.
A Day Without A Mexican should be supported, and I urge all people, white, black and brown, to spend money to go see it. You'll find yourself talking about the idea for days, and that's something that just doesn't happen with big budget Hollywood crap. But as the movie's tag line reads, white people will cry on May 14, Mexicans should also cry, because here's great movie idea that just got away. |
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