Real Women Have Curves Film Analysis

Achieving success is never easy. It takes hard work, dedication, and perseverance. However, it is easier to achieve success for certain people over the others due to several crucial factors: their gender, class, and traditional culture. In the film Real Women Have Curves, the main character, Ana, faced a different fate from to her friend, Jimmy, upon graduation because of their difference in gender, economic standing, and family obligations. One’s gender, traditional culture, education, and class can influence one’s pursuit of the American Dream because often times people are offered more opportunities based upon whether they are male or female, their social status and financial prosperity, and their family obligation and cultural values. Discrimination against one’s gender is fairly common in America, and it prevents females from a fair opportunity to achieve success. Female workers often receive less opportunities in their workplace because both the women and their employers believe “a …show more content…
Latino families in the United States have a different approach to wealth accumulation comparing to white families. They pool resources and rely on collective family and on extended kin efforts as opposed to individual incomes (Lui). The film also emphasizes the traditional culture of Latino families: collective family efforts and togetherness. Ana’s family obligation and sense of duty is another crucial factor that is stopping Ana from attending college. When her high school teacher, Mr. Guman, told Ana and her family that she is accepted to Columbia University with a full scholarship, her mother convinces Ana to stay by reminding her of her family obligations: helping in her sister’s factory and caring for her grandfather, and her father agrees because he values togetherness above all else and don 't want to see his family to be