It's just sad that fear trumped love in this case. If nothing else, she tried to save them from a life of regret and unfulfilled love. She opened them up to possibilities in life that aren't always apparent to people trying to hide from the truth (as she was from her cancer). There Tenoch and Julio meet Luisa (Maribel Verd), Tenoch. Befitting a tale of discovery, Y tu mam tambin is a road movie, whose journey gets its start at a lavish wedding thrown by Tenoch’s parents. She just showed them that what they were both looking for was staring them right in the face. On middle-aged men, the funk of cigarettes and beer and sweat and sex smells of failure on Tenoch and Julio, it’s the perfume of youth. They were going to do it soon, no matter what. They're teenage boys about to embark upon life. Ultimately, it's this fear that ends the friendship, not Luisa directly.Īs for "stealing their innocence," I don't know. Gender and sexual identities aren't fixed things, but people in homophobic societies might worry that they are. I think Luisa sensed the emotional connection those two had, and helped them bring out something they weren't consciously aware of. I could certainly see that interpretation, but that's not at all what I got out of it. Rarely do films ever go to the lengths to tell such a real and powerful story. I was so blown away by the direction this film took and found the characters just so deep and real, to me it is true art. The events that transpire on screen tell an amazing coming of age tale, and by the end you're left feeling like life had slipped through the characters fingers. Yeah, it has some really gratuitous sex scenes and to some that could be extremely off putting, but the film feels so real. The boys start out so immature and goofy, and to see them take this dark journey and transition into something they had no intention of becoming was something I didn't see coming. This really is the ultimate coming of age film. Even Luisa's characterization is done excellently, as she copes with her cheating husband and then later to be revealed her cancer. Tenoch and Julio were two amazing characters, transitioning from boys to men. The narration was powerful, giving the audience little subtleties about the characters that drove the story forward in very discrete ways, like the narration about Tenoch's nanny as they passed her homeland or the narration about the car accident. It really submerses the audience into the scene as you feel like you are truly watching the scene unfold before you. Some of the scenes were just one shot that ran on for like 7 minutes as the camera floated from place to place. I'd only seen Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban and found Gravity to be boring, so going into this film I wasn't expecting much.įirst off, Cuarón's cinematography is amazing. I really hadn't watched much of Alfonso Cuarón's work prior to this, and the only reason I watched the film in the first place was because I heard that the closing credits featured a famous Frank Zappa song (I'm a huge Zappa fan). I finally got around to checking out Alfonso Cuarón's Y Tu Mamá También and was absolutely blown away.
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