A Day Without a Mexican

Customer Reviews:

hitting a little too close to home .......2007-07-31

This movie was excellent. Hilarious at times, sad and moving at others. Done in a mocumentary style and centering on several different people from all walks of life. I see and hear people behaving like racists just like the people in the movie.
I think that for many people this movie probably hit a bit too close to home, thus the 1 star reviews. I think this movie should be required viewing. It gets its message across without being heavy handed a la spike lee.

A movie without a clue........2007-07-30

The point of this movie is that without Mexicans our blue collar work force, who have already proven themselves by building this country, could no longer function as an effective workforce.
The fact is we are being invaded, legally and illegally, and our entire demographic make-up will be altered into one that will reflect the countries that these people came from.
What makes us think that people who eternally make a mess out of their own countries will somehow make our own country better? Especially when all common sense and a simple look at the environments they create here tell us they do not help America.
America is on self destruct mode while no one seems to notice or care. Movies like this celebrate the coming destruction of our once great nation. The moral of this movie is like Bizarro world where up is down, down is up and people walk backwards... It wouldn't be so bad if our schools, institutions, philosophies, our pseudo morality, and our entire civilization didn't share this bizarro world view.

God help us.

Jar.......2007-05-15

the movie was some how slow delivering the message. it could have been better. funny at times.. look out.

5/5. "I really wanted to like this film...".......2007-04-12

I really wanted to like this film...and I succeeded.
I came through with flying colours. others...FAILED.
I tagged this movie as a liberal leftist's tear-jerker, and for good reason. you see, I'm a cotton-pickin', head-in-the-clouds, overzealous, unrealistically over-idealistic, Yankee liberal-frickin'-leftist...
AND DARN WELL GRATEFUL THAT I CAN SAY SO WITH HONESTY, THANK-YOU-VERY-MUCH!
Attack me or my views if you wish. Infect me if you will. I am pacifist by nature, and do not fight others except for the honor of opportunity to interpose myself between a small child and a ruthless criminal who would seek to attack, as is their wont...the wont of most of those who are so very much unlike me in their way of thinking.
Incidentally, when I saw this film, I truly wept, and part of me died on the inside, falling away from the rest to join my creator. a film does NOT, in my opinion, need to be funny OR lighthearted to be good. Humour can be healing, even where terminal Cancer is involved, but I would NOT designate this as a comedy by any means, except perhaps from the perspective of those Americans who see Schindler's List as a "HILARIOUS MOCKUMENTARY" (I am related to more than a few of this sort, so do not doubt that they exist. There are actually quite a few, if you choose to see them. Be wary, however, as you glare into the eyes of the beast...)

not quite good.......2007-02-25

*A Day Without a Mexican* was an attempt to show what the U.S. or rather, California would be like without Hispanics. However, the attempt was futile.

A fog gradually surrounds the state of California, thus preventing any communication with the other states. One by one, Hispanics start to disappear until there is none left...except one, who is a reporter. There are mixed reactions to the disappearance of Hispanics. Some people "grieve" as they realize or rather, know how much Hispanics contribute to the nation's economy. Others celebrate the disappearance of Hispanics. Some gain awareness about Hispanics and their "value".

Initially, I thought it was a wonderful concept to show just how much how certain minority contribute to society. However, some of the vignettes were corny or pointless, such as the "L-Factor". I was like, what in the world are talking about? The other was whether or not there was an significance or correlation to Hispanics and extraterrestrials being called "aliens". I realized that some of these vignettes were trying to be funny but these vignettes failed to bring humor.

I believe that this could have been a fantastic movie that would have inspired intellectual dialogues after viewing. However, with corniness in the movie, you just could not wait for the movie to end. Ugh,...just almost a good thing....almost.

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