{"id":249,"date":"2009-02-03T21:46:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-04T05:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4853555578172391551.post-4204463227433176026"},"modified":"2009-02-03T21:47:53","modified_gmt":"2009-02-04T05:47:53","slug":"el-callejon-de-los-milagros-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span404\/2009\/02\/03\/el-callejon-de-los-milagros-2\/","title":{"rendered":"El Callej\u00f3n De Los Milagros"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We all know that the movie was divided into three sections, each one featuring a character. In this blog I want to point out that each of these characters ended up doing something different than what they originally set out for in the beginning. In the beginning of the first section, Rutilio acts like he\u2019s homophobic by getting mad at Chava and Abel for hanging out too much (people might think they were gay), and then he finds a boyfriend and almost ends his relationship with his son, because his son is partly worried about his father\u2019s and his own appearance and almost kills his father\u2019s new boyfriend and has to run away to the US. At first Rutilio is trying to look out for his son, even though his criticism towards him makes him look cruel, and then he ends up losing him for awhile because of their argument.<\/p>\n<p>In the second section, it really never seemed to me that Alma loved Abel as much as he loved her, but she promised him that she would wait for him and she didn\u2019t. She started out as a clean virgin who was searching for a future, but when Abel moved away, she gave up on him almost right away and decided that her future would be prostitution, even though she ran away from it at first.<\/p>\n<p>Susanita was a lonely landlord who was desperate enough for a family to give up rent money  in order to have her cards read, but she ended up with a thief, who she got new teeth for (not a cheap procedure). She spent all of her money for men and to get men&#8230;she didn\u2019t make Chava pay her back&#8230;and then because she realized that Guicho was stealing from her, she tried to end her dream of a family by finally putting herself first and yelling at him for it.<\/p>\n<p>As an audience member, rather than a student who would be analysing it later, I found this movie kind of disturbing because I was rooting for the first two romances to work out (the first one is kind of questionable depending on your opinion, but whatever makes them happy is ok with me) and the first boyfriend almost got killed and with the second romance Alma became a prostitute and Abel got killed. With the third romance, I knew the guy was going to keep stealing from her, so I didn\u2019t care that he got busted in the end. I\u2019m not completely sure how the first two sections significantly blend into the third section, but it seems that if Chava and Rutilio hadn\u2019t gotten into a fight, then Abel wouldn\u2019t have moved away, and then Alma wouldn\u2019t have become a prostitute&#8230;but then what would have happened with Susanita? Would she have gone after Chava? I\u2019m not sure what happened there with them except that Chava gave her hope for a new man by kissing her. I guess now that I\u2019ve finished typing this, I don\u2019t think that the movie\u2019s disturbing, but the characters are really pathetic. Only Abel really stands  up for what he believes in and doesn\u2019t give up until he\u2019s dead.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='http:\/\/res1.blogblog.com\/tracker\/4853555578172391551-4204463227433176026?l=span4042009.blogspot.com'\/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all know that the movie was divided into three sections, each one featuring a character. In this blog I want to point out that each of these characters ended up doing something different than what they originally set out for in the beginning. 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