The movie “A Better Life” (2011) is about the struggles of an undocumented single father named Carlos Galindo, a gardener living in Los Angeles. Alongside with his son Luis, a fourteen-year-old who is surrounded by gang-affiliated members, as his girlfriend and friends pressure him to ignore his father’s earnest way of living as an illegal immigrant, and to instead join a gang. As Carlos struggles to make a decent amount of money, the man Carlos works for offers to sell his truck along with landscaping equipment. Carlos is hesitant due to lack of money. He asks his sister for money and she agrees. Later Carlos buys the truck in order to improve his way of living and to sustain Luis while earning more money to get Luis into a better and move
