The film I watched this week is El Norte. It is a film that surrounds the brother and sister, Rosa and Enrique Xuncax, who fled from Guatemala to Mexico and finally, Los Angeles because their father, Arturo Xuncax, tried to form a labor union in Guatemala and ended up getting executed and the two are being hunted by the soldiers. In the film, it clearly states that there are a lot of differences between Guatemalan and Mexicans that lives close to the border between Mexico and US. It shows how tightly bonded the two siblings are, while witnessing the Mexicans taking advantage of each other (List). This juxtaposition shows how the Mexican culture is twisted because of the immigration issue, of the “American Dream” attracting them to go across
