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Movie Reviews of The City
Movie Review: S.U.P.E.R.B.
Summary: 5 Stars
La Ciudad is an exceptional piece of work. The movie portrays the point of view and the stories of Latino immigrants in the city of New York. The movie shows their hardships and experiences in America to try and get a chance to live a good life in the "land of opportunities." Whether the hardships may be hazardous jobs which could result in death and with such miserable pay. The right to an education being violated because one does not have proof of a reciept from rent or a telephone bill. Long hours in labor with no pay for a long time, cutting off family needs for medicine or better health. Or just not knowing the city and stepping outside to buy food result in the immigrant getting lost in the big city due to the strange and unfamiliar environment where every building looks the same.
It is shown in black and white to give more of an effect and some symbolism which may need a second viewing to catch. But overall, it is a wonderful movie. It allowed me see through the windows of reality to see the actual picture of the whole ordeal. I highly recommend this movie to everyone.
Movie Review: Grapes of Wrath...
Summary: 5 Stars
Four short films that tell the story of new Latin American immigrants struggling to "make it" in New York City. The first story is about day laborers begging for work on street and eventually finding it - and learning that they were tricked in the deal. The second is about a young man coming from Mexico, wondering why he left everything he had behind, and eventually falling in love with a girl from his same home town. The third is a seamstress working in a sweatshop desperate to send money home to care for her sick daughter. And finally, the last is a homeless puppeteer who lives with his young daughter who tries to get his daughter into school without any papers.
The actors were not professionals but were perfectly casted - real and authentic. The black and white cinematography and imagery was spellbinding - capturing the facial expressions, the anxieties, the emotions, the heartbreak, the sweat on the brow, and all of the frustrations.
This film is solemn and somber throughout but tugged at everything human in me.
Movie Review: The immigrant life
Summary: 5 Stars
La Ciudad is an an epic film that portrays the struggle that latino immigrants face when migrating to the United States. With different not resolved problems that the charecters face, they introduce us to a world that is difficult to perceive. The poverty and stressfull lifes that undocumented immigrants live by is detrimental. Despite their happiness portrayed in the picture that each one of them takes in the photo studio they all go to, the happiness depicted is actually just the image they want their family members to see, and themselves want to achieve. With the inspiration that one day they will achieve the American dream they are persistent to continue their struggle even though they are invisible to the great city.Movie Review: La Ciudad
Summary: 4 Stars
La Ciudad was very great movie, specially because of how different it was from any other movie I've watched before. The way in which 3 different stories were put together to show what some immigrants have to go through to support their families. What most impacted me from the movie was the way the showed New York city. In most of the movies in which we see New York, it always appears as a city of big businesses, great economy, and the wealthy in general. But in this film, I got to see the side of New York we don't often see, where the immigrants live and the outside of the city. It really made me realize that there's no such thing as a perfect city or a perfect country. There's poverty and discrimination everywhere, and this movie made me realize that sometimes we get so caught up into our own little world and we complain about every little thing, but sometimes we should stop, look around, and be thankful for what we have.Movie Review: La Ciudad
Summary: 4 Stars
I would not recommend this movie to anyone who is close minded and not willing to see America in an alternate view. La Ciudad depicts the lives of four illegal immigrant workers in the city in the 1990's. This movie shows some harsh and very realistic footage of what life is like for these undocumented people in America. To me, Anthony Rivera's intentions were for educational purposes for the rest of the United States that does not really know what type of life illegals live here.
Although these stories are fictional, they seem more real than anything I have ever watched before. Each character comes vividly to life through the four intertwining stories. The message sent in this movie is continually seen, and as for myself, after viewing La Ciudad, I see society in a different light. This movie has made me more aware of other aspects of the American life.