Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Themes
- Political Issues
- Sits beneath the narrative in many Mexican films
- Political issues are in all 3 themes, but not obviously.
- Disintergration of Society
- Disintergration of values, morals, institutions and of norms.
- Class Divides
- Stop caring about friendships in Y Tu Mama Tambien
- El Chivo asassinates
- Sexual Unfulfilment
- Y Tu Mama Tambien
- Como Agua Para Chocolate - Tita dies after sexual fulfilment
- Gender Issues and Women's Roles
- Like Water: Prizes are women, mother
uses and abuses, Tita gives up chance for
family.
- Y Tu: Luisa is in control of the
boys, but no control over her
husband.
- Amores Perros: Most
women are weak,
model is not matriarchal
like Tita in Like Water.
- Rituals and
modernism
- Y Tu: Pigs on beach
represent Europeans
coming over - symbolism
of early settlement.
- Like Water: Rituals -
weddings, traditions and
recipies
- All end on death and
depression.