Under the Same Moon is a movie about a small family and their struggle of legal immigration across borders. Rosario the mother of son Carlitos has illegally immigrated to the US. The pull factors of her immigrating was the job opportunity and economic power that she could not receive in Mexico. She is forced to leave behind her 4-year-old son, Carlitos, with his grandmother. Rosario send back money she makes in the US to her family in Mexico. But when an unfortunate cause of events, Carlitos grandmother dies. Carlitos is then left to live with his aunt and uncle, which does not make him very happy. He wants to be with his mother. The only connection he has between him and his mother is that she calls him every Sunday night and tells him to …show more content…
He is stuck with many obstacles once in the US, and lucky escapes them. He realizes he does not have enough money to travel to LA, where his mother is, so he picks up a under-the-counter small paying job at a restaurant. He is introduced to Enrique, and the two start working together. In the end they eventually make it to L.A but Carmen, Carlitos old boss, calls his mother to inform her that her son is missing. Torn by her decision to go back and try and find her son, Carlitos encounters a payphone that reminds him of the phone his mother called him on and clings onto that hope. Carlitos and Enrique fall asleep on a park bench, by morning the police spot the two and charge after them. Frighten, Carlitos gets targeted first by the police, but Enrique becomes a distraction and throws a cup of coffee at the policeman to make himself a target. They chase down Enrique and Carlitos escapes. The ending of the movie is when Carlitos is by a stop light, looking at the hand telling in not to cross, in the distance he sees his mother on the other side of the road doing the same. Once the light turns to “walk” the two are finally
Good morning/ Afternoon Teacher I am Rachel Perkins And I was asked by The Australian Film Institute to be here to today to talk about my musical. My musical One Night The Moon which was the winner of the Australian Film Institute Award for Best Cinematography in a Non-Feature Film in 2001. I am also here to talk about how distinctive voices are used to show the experiences of others. The voices of Albert and Jim are two characters that give us two different perspectives this is due to their views. Albert one of the characters in my film is an Aboriginal character played by Kenton Pell who is hired by the police as a tracker. Albert is a very deeply spiritual person this gave him a spiritual voice throughout the play but when he get 's kick off the land and banned from the search the gets frustrated which gave him this really emotional voice. This event has a greater meaning which I will elaborate on later and now Onto Jim. Jim is your 1930s white Australian that owns a farm and is going through tough times because of the Great depression. Jim does not allow Albert to find his daughter, This is due to his racist and prejudiced views of black Australians. Jim has an authorial voice because he see’s himself as inferior. Near to the end of
One life changing event can change anyone’s perception of how people should spend their time with their love ones. Eugenio Derbez is best known as Mexico’s famous comic actor. Derbez started as a main character of the movie Under the Same Moon and also Instructions Not Included. Instructions Not Included was distributed by Lionsgate Films 2014 and the main performers are Eugenio Derbez, Jessica Lindsey, Loreto Peralta, Daniel Raymont, and Alessandra Rosaldo. Our protagonist, Derbez, Valentín Bravo goes through life changing events throughout the film he faced many challenges, but as he accomplishes each and every one of those challenges, he kept something with him. Bravo mentions while he walks on the shoreline, “I'll always carry with me the
Have you had a time in your life, where everything just seemed to be going wrong, and life was hard. Then all of the sudden you actually have a good day. You made it through when times were bad. In the novels Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson, and Shooting the Moon by Frances O’roark Dowell the theme getting through the hard times so you can see the good ones, is shown by Jacqueline and her family not being treated fairly, Jacqueline leaving her home, and Jamie's brother going to war.
At the end, Rosario realized that been separated from his son is not worth it. She worked very hurt to give carlitos what she considered was good for him but the situation made Carlitos to decide to cross the border to look for her. She knows that Carlitos was very intelligent but he did not have a phisical address to look for her, she did not knew anything about him so she decided to go back to Mexico to look for him. But in the process to do it, she found Carlitos in the same place she used to call him every Sunday.
Two weeks later, Fito and Yurico were found cold and hungry on the tracks in Irapuato. Affected by this they put an end to their journey to the north. They were placed in a shelter by Mexican Immigration to get deported. Out of the four kids, Kevin is only one who makes it to the United States. Detained in Huston, he feels he is trapped, “cornered and locked up.” He only gets to do only so many things, misses his mother and regrets everything that lead to him to coming to the United States. Eventually, Kevin is deported back to Honduras and meets his beloved mother. Even though, his mother is happy to see him, she admits that it would have been better for him if he could have founded a family in United States. His step father also thinks that Kevin is a problem and shouldn’t live with them. Nine months later Kevin and Fito made another attempt to reach the United States. Fito was caught and transferred back to Honduras and Kevin was caught at the United States border, then transferred to a shelter in Washington
Before reading What the Moon Saw by Laura Resau, I would of described an immigrant as someone who came from a different country to the United States for employment, freedom, education, or in hopes of achieving the “American Dream.” To begin with, I believed that immigrants came to America from many parts of the world and shared physical features and fashion choices that are native to their nationality. Additionally, their health and fitness depends on the situation that they come from and the conditions they face during transportation to the United States. Similarly, the type of religion that they practice varies greatly on their beliefs and the place where they come from. The type of work that immigrants preform before they come to America
One day when Ricky is on his way to a village in Mexico that is near the Cartel mansion, he buys a burrito on the street and some boys see how much money he has. He runs away from them for awhile but ends up being cornered. They beat the living crap out of him and take all his money and his shoes. After Ricky wakes up from the beatings, there is a girl sitting across the alley from him. She tells him where the Cartel mansion is located, and she takes him to a restaurant and they eat food out of garbage cans.
Miguel resides with his mother, father and grandmother. He is a 16 year-old male Latina of Mexican ethnicity. His parents are legal immigrants from Mexico but met and eventually, got married after they arrived in the United States. His mother is pregnant, which means that Miguel will soon have a sister. Miguel has been struggling academically even though he loves literature and writing. At home Miguel’s family speak Spanish but Miguel is fluent in both English and Spanish. He has been having challenges with his identity, which is the reason he identifies himself as “Chicano-American and not Latina.
On his eighth attempt, Enrique finally makes it to a camp by the Rio Grande. His mother pays a smuggler to bring him safely across the river without being caught by the U.S. border patrol. Finally, he is reunited with his mother whom he hasn't seen in over a decade. His expectation that being with his mother would solve all his problems was soon shattered. Lourdes expects respect for everything she has done for him but is met with only Enriques resentment for leaving him. They fight constantly. Enrique returns to using
Throughout the story “Walk Two Moons” written by Sharon Creech, Mrs.Winterbottom is faced with internal and external conflicts that lead her to change.
Carlitos: Jimmy and Isabelle's son came into the world at a disadvantage and in some ways his heartache basically consisted of anger from both parents.
“The Secret History of the Women Who Got Us Beyond the Moon,” written by Simon Worrall, takes a more direct approach than its counterpart. Rather than using many quotations and pictures to drive the argument home, Worrall conducts an interview of Nathalia Holt, the author of the book that the article focuses on. Worrall most heavily uses the rhetorical device induction, particularly with the interview’s arrangement. Opening questions of the article covered the general topic of the book and the article, such as: “Who are the rocket girls?”; “Why have we never heard of them?”; and “What drew you to this story, Nathalia?” Worrall later uses more specific questions to narrow down his argument to a more definite point, but his argument turns slowly
Under the Same Moon is a film of sadness, sacrifice, joy and love are. This is the story of Rosario and her son Carlitos living in different countries. Rosario crosses illegally to the United States looking for a job, and like many immigrants, she hopes to one day bring Carlitos with her. Meanwhile, the child who was five year old, lives with his grandmother in Mexico. When the grandmother dies, Carlitos decided to find his mother. It has been four years without seeing each other. Now at the age of nine, he is wrapped a dangerous trip crossing illegally to the United States. Carlitos never told his mother that he was going to look for her, so he did not have any address. The only clue he had to find her was the description she gave him from the pay phone where she call him every Sunday at 10am. It was necessary that Carlitos found that place before his mother called, otherwise he would never find it. On his traveling,
Rachel Perkins hybrid musical drama One Night the Moon set in the 1930’s Australian outback and Malala Yousafzai’s ‘speech to the UN’ in 2013 were composed to raise awareness and reveal truths of multiple perspectives, representing the voice of the unheard and disempowered in juxtaposition to the dominant and powerful. Both Perkins and Yousafzai challenge societal expectations of their context, advocating for all voices to be heard and for the potential unity between cultures and races through education and shifts in paradigm.
Days are passed, Tio Luis comes to meet Ramona again and at that time she says “YES”. Her reason for saying yes is that she has a plan. Her plan was that on the same night, she will run away with her family. The same day, Abuelita's foot gets fractured and she can’t walk. Then they all decide not to take Abuelita with them and they will bring Abuelita later on. The night has come, and they all leave for the United States. On the way, Ramona was thinking about how Tio Luis will react when he will get to know that they are gone. They reach the United States. There, they go to a camp and decide to stay there. They meet Isabel and her family there. Isabel and her family gives space to Esperanza and her family to live with them. They are living in a camp so they HAVE to work. The next morning, Josefina, Isabel’s mom, tells Ramona and the others about the