Y Tu Mama Tambien....SPOILERS***
Where do I start?....there's a lot I loved about this film and a lot I didn't. I'll start with the bad news first, as it's always good to end on a positive note
The two guys Julio and Tenoch were annoying dumb asses. I felt like I was watching 14 years old. Which made the first part of the film seem like a Mexican version of
Jackass the movie...And yes, I know they're portrayed that way deliberately, so that the director can set up the last shot which shows the
coming of age scene in the cafe, where they're much more mature and serious. Still, they were hyperbolic and grated on my nerves.
But when Luisa enters the picture the movie went up a notch for me. She made the film poignant and I felt for her character. Especially when she first gets the phone call from her husband and he tells her that he's cheated, she's so torn up, that you can see the pain on her face. Which later in the film is kind of odd, as she says she knew he had been cheating on her and multiple times. I guess hearing it was harder than knowing it for her, or maybe it's because she knew something that we won't know until the end. Luisa on the phone was a powerful scene and she's a fine actresses for sure.
I loved the
you-are-there cinematography, as it was like we were along for the ride in the Mexican countryside. Some road trip movies short change the viewer as we don't really get to see much of the road trip, but here we get to see a lot of amazing scenes in Mexico. Which I enjoyed as it reminded me of vacations I took there.
And yea, it looked like that too, well except for all the swimming pools. Speaking of that I could have done without the dueling self-pleasure on the diving board scene, complete with post nasal drip
good grief.
The narration that told the back and side stories, mostly took me out of the movie and made me aware I was indeed watching a film, like I didn't know that because it was on my TV...but you know what I mean.
Sometimes the narration added interesting stuff like the story behind the road side cross marking an accident which involved dead chickens and fatalities. I think that was important as it showed that while the guys were goofing around, life was a serious business with death right outside of their car window. That's a theme that will come back at the end of the film too.
There's lots of little bits of life in this film that we usually don't see, like the wedding party with a horse vaquero show and the dead pedestrian that marks the start of their journey. And the pigs on the beach! I don't know why but seeing them and hearing their story was cool
All those little bits tie into the theme of life and death, so the director is very skilled and created an artistic film here.
If we did the
The Special Award for the movie that added the most to the HoF experience...like I did in the 10th,
Y Tu Mama Tambien would get my vote.