Race and Gender in the Movie Entre Nos
Entre Nos
One of the most common cities in the United States for Colombian immigrants to flee to, like Mariana and her family did in the 2009 film, Entre Nos, is to the projects of Jackson Heights in Queens, New York, known by the residents as "El Chapinerito" which is named after the city of Bogota in their country. Many Colombian immigrants left the country for the States after the trade and industry depression in the 1960s to search for work in the bigger urban cities to be able to provide for their families like millions of other settlers. From 1960 to 1977 the Immigration and Naturalization Service reported almost 120,000 Colombians migrated to the United States to set themselves free from their poverty stricken streets to a more industrialized nation like the diverse and booming market that was developing within and surrounding suburbs of New York City to support their families they brought or either left behind (Sturner, 2011). The movie, Entre Nos, was written and directed by Paola Mendoza, who stars as protagonist Mariana, who was inspired by factual events about Mariana and her Colombian family of two children, a baby on the way, and a husband who was living within Jackson Heights. The motion picture reflects how difficult it is surviving and living as a minority in harmony to the inner self, and more people are able to understand the reality of what life is like as a migrant trying to take care of their family in a foreign land with the constant worry of failure as a parent, pressure from society, and with no education.
Even though the United States has always been a place for diversity of many nationalities and outsiders to many countries and foreign lands, their educational background has limited...
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