If you remove every sex scene/sexual reference/sexual anything in the movie, you'll be left with about a fifteen minute footage of the sea and maybe a car travelling on the road. But this movie works on so many different levels because it's just so... real and so blinded at the same time. It's about two Mexican teenagers who take a roadtrip with an older woman to a beach they made up. That's essentially what this movie is about but it's so much deeper than that. You have a narrator, who points out little scenes during the movie which you'd otherwise miss, and they're so full of... feeling. It's been two days since I've watched it and I can't stop thinking about it. It makes me want to pack up my bags and just take a long roadtrip somewhere, anywhere. Every little thing in the movie is so real (I know I'm using the word too many times but it just fits in with the movie) and it's so easy to overlook things. It's set in 1998, with the end of the dictatorship (I think it's the dictatorship. My facts could be completely wrong) and you have scenes where soldiers patrol up and down the roads with guns and the boys take it so calmly it's easy to overlook them. Until you stop to think and you realize how unsettling armed soldiers in civilian society are.
I'd really recommend this movie. It's fun and light but you think long enough and it's got a deeper subtlety to it. Also, I really dig the soundtrack. I found it on 8tracks so I've been listening to it non-stop.
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