An Immigrant Story
by Miguel Verduzco
“Under the Same Moon” is the story
of Carlitos, a nine-year old boy who lives with his grandma in Mexico and
thousands of miles away from his mother, Rosario. His life is really hard and
lonely. He has to get up early in the morning, make his grandma her
hot-chocolate and get ready for school. Carlitos only has one friend who has no
mother or father; he is all alone and works in the streets selling gum.
I can really relate to this film.
As I watch the film, I think about my own circumstances. My mother came to the
As the film progresses the audience
finds out that Carlito’s grandmother was really sick. They also discover that
due to her illness she, was going to die sooner or later and she knew it. That
is why she would tell Rosario, Carlitos mom that she needed to take the boy
with her, or go back to
Rosario would tell him that very
soon she was going to be able to send him enough money so that he could be able
to go to Los Angeles CA. Carlitos had not seen his mom for four-years. I can
relate to that because I was not able to see my mom for four years as well. I
was only able to talk to her via the phone once a week until she was able to
bring my siblings and I to live with her.
I really enjoyed this movie because
of the experience that is shown. They filmed the movie in a place where it
seamed as if Carlitos crossed the border. The main reason this movie caught my
attention was because it reminds me of why I’m here in the U.S. Carlitos’
mother, Rosario and I both came here to succeed and to give us a better chance
at having a productive life.
I definitely would recommend this
movie to someone else; it would probably be a person that was born in the
United States. The reason for this is so that they could at least see how hard
it is to live an immigrant life. All they have to suffer and live just to get
from one place to another. Not only that but all the things and family members
they leave behind, looking to reach the American Dream.
What really made this movie good
were probably the actors and the director. I really think Carlitos was the best
protagonist for this roll of traveling to the U.S by himself. The way the movie
was written was probably the best way it could have been written, the actors
were awesome and the director did his best job. If you can go to the theater
and see the movie for yourself, you’ll notice that the movie says it all,
there’s really no better way this movie could have been written.
I really loved this movie and my
favorite actor was Carlitos. I would rate this movie a 10 out of 10 because
while I was watching this movie I was really feeling it inside of me, it also
reminded me of when I was traveling to the
In my opinion, I think some people
might have not liked this movie because of the use of two languages’ during the
movie, Spanish and English. Probably they would have preferred the movie if it was
just in English and the sub-titles in Spanish or the opposite way. The ending
to the movie was probably another reason that people didn’t like the movie,
because during the whole movie Carlitos was struggling to find his mom and hug
her, tell her that he loved her. Instead all the audience got to see was
Carlitos and his mom, Rosario see each other across the street.
photographs taken by Noah Saragoza
