Y Tu Mama Tambien Movie Review

I think this movie, “Y Tu Mama Tambien,” focus on how different social classes can blend together and interact without discriminating each other.  Julio and Tenoch are best friends even though, they have different social status. Julio is a middle class young man that lives in the barrios of Mexico City, in the case of Tenoch, his life is surrounded   by luxuries that his Dad provides to his entire family, and they even have a maid who took care of Tenoch since he was a little kid.

Tenoch’s father is a well known politician from the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), Although, the PRI governed Mexico for more than 70 years, it came to its own down fault, for all the corruption, and the misunderstandings among them.

The movie starts with Tenoch, and Julio, having sex with their girlfriends. This scene shows a little controversy later on in the movie; sexuality plays a huge role in it.  When Tenoch and Julio girlfriends’ left, to Europe, These young men decided to take a road trip to a little beach Boca Del Cielo which they did not have any idea of where it was located.

Luisa role in the movie is to be the one suffering and try to complete her goal which is to go see the ocean. She found Julio and Tenoch attractive so she decided to travel with then to Boca Del Cielo.

While traveling to Boca Del Cielo, the movie stops several times to focus at the crosses that they see at the side of the road, people that have died for protesting or car accidents. This shows a little bit of what the government has done to its own people. Also, Tenoch realizes that his Nana hometown was affected by all the disputes between campesinos, and the police. This shows why Tenoch’s Nana had to migrate to the capital to get away from all the mistreatments that this people got from the government. Also, she had to work at low pay job, and work herself up for a better pay.

When they got to Boca Del Cielo, the guy driving the boat told them, how this huge hotel chains wanted to privatize the beach, and how it would affect him, his family, and the rest of the residents of Boca Del Cielo. Here this part of the movie, shows how the lower classes are the most affected by the system, in this case the government that allowed this big Hotel chains to destroy the environment by constructing tourist buildings that will only cause more pollution to the waters and the natural resources.

The night the three of the got really drunk, the three of the started some sexual stuff, and at the end of it Tenoch and Julio started kissing each other. This shows how insecure of their sexuality Tenoch and Julio were.

At the end of the movie, Louisa decided to stay in Boca Del CIelo, Tenoch and Julio went back to Mexico City. They stop talking for a while. Then they finally see each other again when the PRI has lost its dictatorship in Mexico. As consequence, Tenoch’s family had to leave the country, live in Europe for more than a year.

In conclusion, this movie, “Y Tu Mama Tambien,” shows how corruption, sexuality, and social classes play a key role within society. Also, how people get affected by it, and the consequences that they have to face at the end of each move the government takes.