Y Tu Mamá También
Autor: Travis | Publicado: 2012-02-21T22:02:00-02:00







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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Manifiesto de los  charolastras 

 
No hay honor más grande que ser un charolastra.  

 
Cada quién puede hacer de su culo un papalote.  

 
Pop mata poesía. 

 
Un “toque” al día… la llave de la alegría.  

 
No te tirarás a la vieja de otro charolastra.  

 
Puto el que le vaya al América. 

 
Que muera la moral y que viva la chaqueta.  

 
Prohibido casarse con una virgen. 

 
Puto el que le vaya al América (se repite por  que es reputo el que le vaya al América) 

 
La “neta” es chida pero inalcanzable. 

 
Pierde la calidad de charolastra aquel que sea  tan culero para romper con alguno de los puntos anteriores. 




The movie, whose title translates as "And Your  Mama, Too," is another trumpet blast that there may be a New Mexican Cinema  a-bornin'. Like "Amores Perros," which also stars Gael Garcia Bernal, it is an  exuberant exercise in interlocking stories. But these interlock not in space and  time, but in what is revealed, what is concealed, and in the parallel world of  poverty through which the rich characters move. The surface is described in a  flash: Two Mexican teenagers named Tenoch and Julio, one from a rich family, one  middle class, are free for the summer when their girlfriends go to Europe. At a  wedding they meet Luisa, 10 years older, the wife of a distant cousin; she's  sexy and playful. They suggest a weekend trip to the legendary beach named  Heaven's Mouth. When her husband cheats on her, she unexpectedly agrees, and  they set out together on a lark.

This level could have been conventional  but is anything but, as directed by Alfonso Cuaron, who co-wrote the screenplay  with his brother Carlos. Luisa kids them about their sex lives in a lighthearted  but tenacious way, until they have few secrets left, and at the same time she  teases them with erotic possibilities. The movie is realistic about sex, which  is to say, franker and healthier than the smutty evasions forced on American  movies by the R rating. We feel a shock of recognition: This is what real people  do and how they do it, sexually, and the MPAA has perverted a generation of  American movies into puerile masturbatory snickering. Whether Luisa will have  sex with one or both of her new friends is not for me to reveal. More to the  point is what she wants to teach them, which is that men and women learn to  share sex as a treasure they must carry together without something  spilling--that women are not prizes, conquests or targets, but the other half of  a precarious unity. This is news to the boys, who are obsessed with orgasms  (needless to say, their own). The progress of that story provides the surface  arc of the movie. Next to it, in a kind of parallel world, is the Mexico they  are driving through. They pass police checkpoints, see drug busts and traffic  accidents, drive past shanty towns, and are stopped at a roadblock of flowers by  villagers demanding a donation for their queen--a girl in bridal white,  representing the Virgin. "You have a beautiful queen," Luisa tells them. Yes,  but the roadblock is genteel extortion. The queen has a sizable court that  quietly hints a donation is in order.

At times during this journey the  soundtrack goes silent and we hear a narrator who comments from outside the  action, pointing out the village where Tenoch's nanny was born and left at 13 to  seek work. Or a stretch of road where, two years earlier, there was a deadly  accident. The narration and the roadside images are a reminder that in Mexico  and many other countries a prosperous economy has left an uneducated and  penniless peasantry behind.

They arrive at the beach. They are greeted by  a fisherman and his family, who have lived here for four generations, sell them  fried fish, rent them a place to stay. This is an unspoiled paradise. (The  narrator informs us the beach will be purchased for a tourist hotel, and the  fisherman will abandon his way of life, go to the city in search of a job and  finally come back here to work as a janitor.) Here the sexual intrigues which  have been developing all along will find their conclusion.


Source: Roger Ebert.com Movie  Reviews

(Y Tu Mamá También, Alfonso Cuarón, 2001)