Quinceañer Film Analysis

The movie Quinceañera tells the story of a young woman, Magdalena who is about to celebrate her 15th birthday party, better known in the Latino community as a quinceañera, a celebration of the transition from a little girls childhood and her becoming into a young woman, when she (Magdalena) soon finds out that she is pregnant. With much disapproval from her religious father she is forced to leave home and live with her extended family, her uncle Tomas, and her older cousin Carlos. The motion picture illustrates many of Latino’s cultures and values. For instance at the beginning of the film, Magdalena’s cousin Eileen is celebrating her quinceañera and throughout the party many males guests of all ages are seen enjoying the music, conversing, drinking and dancing meanwhile some of the women from the party are seen cooking and prepping food in the …show more content…
While both Magdalena and her father are at the funeral they engage in emotion talk regarding how she was treated by her father and about her pregnancy. After not speaking to Magdalena throughout most of her pregnancy, knowing that she was with child one of the first things her father tells her is that everything in this world happens for a reason and God knows why. Upon learning that Magdalena was actually a pregnant virgin, her father asked Magdalena if she could one day forgive him, Magdalena right then and there decided to forgive her father and they shared a tear filled hug. Her father assures her from there on out everything will be different. Cervantes did a study (2002; cited from lecture 7) that demonstrated children establish their emotional competence when conversing with emotion talk with caregivers. Magdalena’s father engages more in emotion talk than labels and promotes explanatory emotion talk; eventually Magdalena understands her fathers beliefs, why he acted the way he did towards her and was able to forgive