Intersting Film

I just finished watching the movie "A Day Without Mexicans" and I have to say it was a pretty good movie although very cheesy and over dramatic at times which I think was the point at times. But it is a very enlightening movie because it tries to show how Mexicans are viewed from the outside by most people and how devastating it would be to have Mexicans completely gone. As much as some people want Mexicans to stop coming to the U.S. from the movie one can see that this would be devastating for the country. At the same time this movie outright shows or tries to show the rest of the United States' view point and what their opinion is concerning Mexican immigrants. For most of the movie the only Mexicans that are seen are the the ones doing hard field labor and other minimum wage jobs. Even though it is statistically true at the same time that would mean that most of the value that Mexicans hold is for the cheap labor that they provide. There seems to not be any true acceptance of the Mexicans because in the end they are only valued for the services they provide and not as people. Although it may seem that they are more appreciated at the end of the film it seems that this appreciation only comes from the interest that other people have in benefiting from Mexican services. "A Day Without Mexicans" is a nice movie with a happy ending, but it is not real life and at the end even though Mexicans get appreciated, in real life, matters have not changed and many Mexicans are still seen as lowly workers that are not properly recognized for their jobs.