Overview of a healthy reasonable medium
From Jose Solis
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Based on the research of the development of the child. How do we rate?
Age 10+
Moving the immigration document shows both sides of the story.
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What is the story like?
Five years north is a documentary that follows Luis, a 16-year-old unauthorized Guatemalan boy trying to survive in New York, and returned home and remain under icy radar work. In parallel with his story, we meet Judy, a Cuban American ice officer torn between her work and her origin of immigrants. The documentary film is an intimate portrait of two people on opposite sides of the immigration system, how they do what they think is right in the impossible circumstances.
Is that good?
This is a documentary for immigration that represents a silent moral challenge to their viewers, not to take over the simple path of rotation of immigration in battle of heroes and villains. Five years north It gives us a luis, a teenager who can do everything that can survive in New York while supporting your family in Guatemala, and Judy, the Ice Officer balancing his business with his own originality of immigrant origins (her family is with Cuba). You could enter the side, but the movie denies that impulse, pointing to the two people shaped in their environment, working all of themselves.
The restriction of the film has been observed. There is no manipulative result, there is no melodramatic framing, just a peaceful accumulation of real moments that speak for themselves. By rejection by the sensationalization of his subjects, the film sincerely earns his emotional strength. Luis and Judy are not thrown as symbols or opposites, they are simply human, and that is what their stories do so deep. Instead of targeting the conflict, this film focuses on the coexistent, which makes it even more subtle powerful.
Talk to your kids about …
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Families can talk about the challenges of Luis faces as an immigrant. What do you think it is to start again away from home?
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Why do you think the filmmakers show Luis and Judy’s story next to each other? Are they contrasting to each other? Are they compared?
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Can Luis and Judy have different goals and still try to do their best? Why or why not?
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