A Day Without A Mexican
While I was on vacation in California last weekend I saw this movie. I found it funny, and aside from using obvious stereotypes of various cultures in America to try and prove a point I thought they implemented it well. Yes, the quality of the production was not great at all, but I think it was more about getting a point across than anything.
I loved the jokes about white people saying "We can't have that Ecuadorian and Honduran paint our home, they're illegal Mexicans!" with subtitles stating "Ecuadorians and Hondurans are NOT Mexicans". This hits right at home for me, cause I'll tell people my mother was born and raised in Uruguay and they'll say "Oh, she's Mexican?", and I usually get snide with them and say "Hispanic, yes, Mexican, NO!", and that statement alone coming from people just makes me think they are completely ignorant.
The movie tossed out some facts like Hispanics use $3 billion in welfare resources, but they work to produce $100 billion in revenue.
I do believe people who say that "Mexicans" are a drain on welfare and such factors should really think twice about such statements. The movie ads also stated that "On May 14th there will be no Mexicans", and they tried to have Hispanics protest and not show up to work for that day to attempt to prove how important hispanics are to the California economy, does anyone know how this protest went, or if anyone even followed through with it?
The premise of the movie is pretty much that ALL hispanics disappear mysteriously from California, and Cali is locked in on itself by this pink fog that prevents telecommunications and transportation to anywhere else, and continues with what would happen to California if such a thing happened.
Has anyone else seen this movie? It's currently only showing in select theaters in California and Texas.