confess that I
reluctant to see the movie based on the novel by Esmeralda Santiago, "The Dream of America" \u200b\u200bI was very good when I read it. I always think too much before seeing the Puerto Rican productions (except Jacobo Morales or those of Marcos Zurinaga ) because most of the time me down, as the vaunted "Maldeamores" I was terrible. So "America" \u200b\u200bwas a surprise because it seemed very well made, well directed (by Sonia Fritz), and especially well acted.
an interesting movie I think at this stage in the history of Puerto Rico and the United States. The fact that the protagonist is Vieques and flee to New York escaping a abusive lover who becomes the metaphor for what happened in Vieques for so many decades of abuse by the U.S. Navy. At the end of the movie (unlike the novel) that the news story closes with the end of the bombing in Vieques.
The scenes of the protagonist with his family in the Bronx illuminates the experience of Diaspora Boricua in New York and it is inevitable to recognize how much we have in common which were and those who stayed. The audience laughed with dialogue, gestures and expressions so typical of our, which is not lost even if the moon is born: to be Puerto Rican, although they speak in Spanglish.
On the other hand, dramatizes the situation of immigrants in the United States in scenes of great emotion (but without falling into melodrama) as when American and Mexican friends stopped their work in a Laundromat to sing "Las Mañanitas" to honor the birthday of his absent son in Mexico.
worth watching. I say if they match or not.
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