Abigail Alvarez

Sunday afternoons have been made to relax and do everything you havent had time to do during the week. Or at least that's what they say and that's what ?i used to do , when I had a normal life...oh well but as I'm on holiday and like that song sang by Morrisey "Everyday is like sunday " this is how everyday has been for me since I finished school last May, obviously among some other things-of course-.

Oh well , a couple of sundays ago , I went to see Rudo y Cursi, a mexican film directed by Cuaron, erm , -I'm not talking about the dude who made a couple of Potter's movies, but his brother , the one who cowrote Y tu Mama tambien (Alfonso Cuaron, 2001).This film brings back Diego Luna and Gael Garcia Bernal together as half brothers who live in a rural and impoverished area in Mexico and have different/similar goals in their lives.

And just like , we all get a moment of opportunity , luck comes on their way disguised in the figure of Batuta , a football scout whose major interest revolves around money.

The film tries to touch on different themes and it does not manage to do so. Something ends up missing towards the end, probably the downhill that turns everything around and doest give us what we expected towards the end .Good for Carlos Cuaron , the film has a great cinematopraphy and perfect acting .However it's not a new story , it has been done before and that is where it lacks some kind of authenticity.Nevertheless , this films works as a parable on how success can be ephemereal and how we can destroy our own opportunities to get a "better"-this obviously depends on our own perception about life and what we consider to be "better"-and it definetely lefts us thinking about various things and one particular one , the difference between passion and talent and not being the same.

we might have a passion but not talent to develop that passion. As for Carlos Cuaron, I believe some people are born to be screenwriters -somehow reflecting the message of the film-however that does not stop me from thinking he might be one of the promising mexican directors who might come up with the next international big hit in the the years to come.