Crazy/Beautiful did not have a negative South of the Border stereotype. The film wasn’t about that, it was about love. The film focused on poor Latino kid falling in love with a rich troubled white young woman. It did however highlighted the differences between cultures. In the film it showed that Carlos was raised as a respectable young man, who treated everyone the same no matter what color they were. He did try to keep his troubled Latino friends around, to keep close to his people. At least that is how I understood him. Even thought he knew his Latino friends were troubled, he felt the need to still give them his time, because he felt like it was the right thing to do. There was nothing in the film that stereotyped the Latino community.
