Final Reflection Post

Although we watched this movie a few weeks ago, I'd like to comment on the movie, "A Day Without a Mexican." I'd never seen a 'mockumentary' before, so the style of the movie was very different from any type of film that I'd seen before.

I found quite a few parts of the movie humorous, although I'm not sure if my classmates thought the movie was quite as funny. I think that the movie did a good job of showing how absurd it is that some people think that all the problems of the United States, mainly California, are caused by Latinos, or Mexicans. I think that many people take for granted how hard many Latinos work in this country to provide for their families. This film brought out a lot of the racial and stereotypical undertones that I believe still prevail in today's society. The one scary part about the mockumentary is the fact that while this movie was full of satire, there are many people that truly do think like the characters in this movie, in particular the grown son of the crop worker.

I believe this movie showed in jest many of the problems of American society, and how without Latinos the country would not run the way that it does. While to me, a day without Mexicans sounds absurd and ridiculous, I can only hope that eventually everyone in this country will have the same view. But until then, films such as this one will need to be made to call people out on their racist and stereotypical behavior, however masked they believe it to be.