Film Analysis: 120 Days By Miguel Cortez

120 Days: Film Analysis
On the class discussion board, I gave a little background of the “120 Days” film. Miguel Cortez was treated unfairly by a policeman who stopped them for being the people they are. The policeman assumed that Miguel was a criminal and simply didn’t do anything wrong. He was ordered to leave within 120 days. If he didn’t leave then he would receive a fine and jail time. Miguel is fully focused and more worried about his family before himself. This man was determined to do all it took to be able to stay in the US. His goal was to make enough money before he had to leave. The family felt accepted when they went to St. Francis Church because it was more community focused. The family still tried to keep high spirits even though they had a lot going on. The reason why he wouldn’t want to go back to Mexico because they didn’t have much over there. I thought it was good how they still wanted the girls to know their roots. Some people would want to forget about their roots and fit in with everyone else. I thought that the rules were harsh. This family was about doing good deeds within the community and

Whether children of Mexican immigrants adopt pan-ethnic terms (Latino, Hispanic), American identities, or identities rooted in their home country (Mexican) reflects how they view themselves in relation to the ethnic stratification system in the United States (Tovar, Jessica, and Cynthia Feliciano, 2009). Biculturalism may be expressed using a Mexican-American self-label, as opposed to either an American or Mexican label (Rumbaut, 1994). For those who are viewed as non-white in the United States (including most recent immigrants from Mexico and their children), ethnic identity development is an important part of overall adolescent identity formation, and may be especially complicated for those who grow up in the United States, but have parents from another country (Rumbaut,