Ang 101 Week 1 Assignment

For the cultural assignment I decided to watch a film in Spanish. The film I chose was Instructions Not Included, directed and starring Eugenio Derbez. This film was about a player, Valentin, living in Acapulco, Mexico who suffered from commitment issues. He sleeps with many woman, a large population of them being tourist that visit the area. One in particular, by the name of Julie, he tells her that she is the first person he loves and she’ll be the last. But, as the film goes on there are still more woman as she disappears from the film and he moves on to the next. Until she pops up at his doorstep with a baby girl named Maggie, about a couple of months old. As he is a major playboy, of course he does not remember Julie. But, Julie reveals to

As a boy, his dad tried to teach him lessons that would make him stronger. He saw those lessons as hate, and not love. He resented his dad and did not want to be like him when it came to raising his child. It was not until Maggie changed his life and his mindset that realized that everything his dad did made him stronger and made him the fearless strong person he is. This film not only taught me lesson, but also helped me with the Spanish language as whole. The subtitles were there but I found myself really trying to understand the language without having to read. I very surprised at the fact that he went seven years in America with out learning any of the language, even with a daughter who understood and spoke the language fluently. This relates to my own cultural experience because as an English speaker trying to learn Spanish I can understand how it could hard to be speaking one language all your life and then have to open up to learning a new language. But, if I were living in a country that spoke a different language I would personally would have learned it, because I know it would be a major communication