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Thread ID: 13774 | Posts: 5 | Started: 2004-05-19
2004-05-19 04:01 | User Profile
[I]Fox News did a segment on this new movie "A Day without a Mexican". It's leftist BS that shows how California would " suffer" if Mexicans suddenly vanished. The movie follows a white yuppie family as it "struggles" to survive without its Mexican maid. Meanwhile commerce comes to a halt in California. Fox news showed one scene in which The yuppie's spoiled kid goes without lunch because Mom and Dad had to get to work and couldn't find the peanut butter(in their own home) to make their little girl a sandwich. Of course the movie unintentionally underscores what I hope many here already know, Mexican immigration benefits the wealthy to the detriment of white working class families. It's hard to fathom the arrogance and idiocy of someone who would write a movie like this and expect us to feel sorry for rich white race-traitors living in LA and SF who have to gasp clean their own swimming pools. [/I]
Ok, got my ranting out, here's the links to the movie:
[url]http://imdb.com/title/tt0377744/[/url] [url]http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/features/20040514-9999-1c14mexican.html[/url]
By David Elliott UNION-TRIBUNE MOVIE CRITIC
May 14, 2004
Some old comic player, checking out, said that "dying is easy. Comedy is hard." And the hardest comedy, as a rule, is satire.
The satirical premise of "A Day Without a Mexican" is that one day all of California's "Mexicans" (really, all Latinos) disappear. The Anglos, or gringos, or whatever branding term fits their set of stereotypes here, are stunned; even ethnic racists, the "send 'em back across the border" crowd, are bothered and bewildered.
It seems a great fog has closed the state borders. Why? No matter. Where have the Latino residents gone? Suddenly the crops are not being picked, the restaurant dishes not being washed, the offices not being vacuumed, and taco shells are piling up in factories (yes, this is shown).
Sergio Arau's film posits that the non-Latinos are helpless, even the kindly, pro-Mexican rancher who warmly incarnates Old California. Blond trophy wives can barely do their nails, so impoverished of support labor is the Latino-less economy. Mediocre politicians are at a loss for scapegoats, and the schools (one-fifth Latino teachers, now gone) stumble to new lows.
With a sporty spirit, and hokey ideas, Arau fills his comic grinder. No comedy should rely on "Dorito" as a laugh by itself, or keep going back to oafish border cops for fun, or jokingly sneer that Ricardo Montalban "would have no career without his accent" (not funny and not true; he's a great talent).
And maybe no film should so rely on TV reports, cartoons, facile sitcom characters, all shot in the most banal TV manner, with file footage and garishly trite close-ups. Even when not on TV, the actors perform as if California were a bad '70s series ââ¬â the partial exception is Yareli Arizmendi, a co-writer with Arau, at times sincerely human as a news anchor who is the last Latina in the state.
But was it her idea to have her character subjected to an idiotically racist medical experiment? It's as if we stumbled upon "A Day Without a Jew," a rollicking 1943 German hit that wonders, "Ach, vere haf they all gone?" And then there's the very gratuitous, inane scene of the Latino TV newsman, receiving oral sex in a parking lot.
This is thesis comedy, with all the note cards posted on screen: facts, factoids, zany zingers. It makes sincerity seem a very minor virtue. Everyone starts missing the millions who have vanished and, presto, they are welcomed back, most to the same menial jobs they had before (and the border guards are happy, for "aliens" can be chased again).
Joe Dante confronted xenophobic racial issues with more satirical verve in "The Second Civil War," even had some hip, crafty fun with TV news. That one had a few soft patches, but it didn't feel padded-out like this ââ¬â for, in fact, "A Day Without a Mexican" was first a 28-minute short, made by Arau and Arizmendi in 1998.
To quote that great if non-Latin architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, sometimes less is more.
2004-05-19 04:16 | User Profile
:alucard: = :dung:
2004-05-19 05:33 | User Profile
Maybe next we'll get a 'day without Jews'?
No bagel shops. All major media outlets off-line. The Ivy League cancels classes. Pornography production halts. Politicians dazed and confused, searching for new interest groups to pander to.
In other words--a dream. Except for the bagels.
As far as the illegals go--the sad thing is we hear this line all the time. Yes, of course the US economy would collapse if you instantaneously removed vast sections of its workforce. Unfortunately, we are not able to this when it comes to illegals. It will take years. The economy would of course adapt, and wages in low-end jobs would rise (as prices increased, and growth slowed).
What makes people think otherwise? What is it that makes whites accepting of Latino labor? It seems to be the Bush mentality over and over--whites want to live like old Spanish families, ruling the peasants. (Or is it the Athenian lording over the slaves?) But wence this dream, as whites should have seen time and again how the formerly peasant rise up to displace the rulers?
I suggest that we have some strange genetic and cultural mechanisms within us -- ones not designed to preserve our all or even most of our genes, but rather to promote competition and the evolution of new forms of life. Sadly, it both looks like these drives just don't work, and also that, even if they did work, we would have reject them, temper them, and transform them to serve consciously chosen white racial-genetic goals.
2004-05-19 09:09 | User Profile
For some reason, the name Pee Wee Herman comes to mind when I think about Jorge watching this in the White House screening room. Clumsy, stupid, transparent, easily refuted propaganda, written by a couple of beaners from that boil on America's behind that goes by the name of Mexico. We're not exactly dealing with an invasion of rocket scientists here, are we?
2004-05-19 10:35 | User Profile
I saw this crap on Hannity and Colmes. Leave it to melon headed Sean to sabotage the conservative position with his whining "I'm a conservative (sic) and my great grand father had to deal with signs that said 'no Irish allowed,' but my main concern is about al-Qaida coming over the border" ect. No way someone like this would think about opposing this on cultural grounds.
As far as I'm concern people can spread their own damn pine straw like I do.