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Although there are many minorities who would agree with the plot, the conclusion was to unrealistic. In such society, more ways to observe the conflicts and issues are plausible, unfortunately it is very unlikely a concluding scenario of joyfulness would be attainable in real life. In Italian Neorealism, many directors were interested in the subjects'emotions and feelings of socio-political issues, not as much as in finding (unreal) solutions. Most of these great auteurs would prefer to leave the ending open, to resemble a more realistic/credible approach. On the other hand more in depth study of the subject, would probably yield a theory of ideology as such: The people in power (politicians, media moguls, etc. prefer the minorities to remain ignorant and brainwashed. At one point in history people were oppressed by violence. Today, this not being possible, ideology (having control of what and how you think) is more effective and acceptable. Low-income families are forced to have two working parents in order to economically survive, living children unsupervised for prolonged periods. Parents who think their kids are safe at home watching TV, videos, movies, and playing violent video games are falling pray to this form of oppression, called ideology for some. This is the REAL root of the problem.

I felt like I was watching a bad after school special. The idea was great, but the execution was terrible. I had a huge problem with the dialogue, mixing the Mexican slang with English slang seem unrealistic and excessive. The Acting was another problem. The father of the little girl that gets shot seemed like he was nervous in front of the camera. The crying and the reporter was unrealistic. What type of news reporter interviews mothers of dead kids right at the scene with the paramedics, police officers and neighbor looking like they wanted to cause a fight. It was a free for all. The Reporter was at every scene right on time and what was going on with the boom mic guy. He was at the scene with the reporter. FYI: Reporters don't need a boom mics. The American guy in the movie OH MY GOD, what was going on with that character. He seemed like he was trying to hard to be a "crazy grigo" The little girl that gets shot on the shoulder and falls into a coma, Rosa says "poor little girl that got shot on the head." WRONG,ROSA. There were a lot of details that weren't paid attention to. A lot of editing mistakes, like the fade to black for no reason. The random change of shots. The whole scene when Rosa was having a dream of her daughter falling into a black hole and cutting back to the daughter getting raped just confused me. The cool montage of Christian threw me off. The montage was well edited and well shot, but it didn't match with the rest of the movie I understand that this is a low budget film, but I have seen many low budget films with less people and there very well shot and the acting is believable.