Extended Reading
  • Paige 2022-03-01 08:01:27

    Just experience, no need to be intense

    The state of watching this movie seems to be careless. It was originally a stool supported by four legs. I had to put it on the railing of the bed and only use the back legs to support it. Then I watched and thought, if I let go, if I let go, will it fall? Go down, if you fall down, do you first...

  • Jace 2022-03-01 08:01:27

    Learning to be responsible is learning to grow up

    The movie is the narrative style I like, it's light and unhurried.

    Contradiction is the driving force of the storytelling. Adult pose was an important turning point for girls in the Mexican nation. Margaret Ryder, a teenage girl from a Mexican Catholic family, found out she was pregnant when she...

  • Bryce 2022-03-21 09:03:18

    didn't look carefully

  • Jason 2022-04-19 09:02:59

    I watched a movie a long time ago. Only love and understanding can melt prejudice and misunderstanding. A warmer film.

Quinceañera quotes

  • Carlos: [at Tio Tomas' funeral] Tomas Alvarez was born in Jalisco, Mexico in 1921. The 13th kid out of 22. When he was born, he was so small, the midwife said he wasn't worth washing. But he ended up outliving all of them. In his life, he was an office boy, a barber and a farm worker. Then in America, he sold champurrado. Everybody knew him. If you walk down the street, he would stop every two minutes to talk to someone. They were always happy to see him.

    [pauses]

    Carlos: He had a love inside him that was so strong. It came from his heart and out through his eyes like a golden light. Everybody could see it, because he loved everyone and judged no one. At the end of my life, I will count it as my greatest privilege that I knew a saint. Because Tomas Alvarez was a saint. And he will not leave us. His spirit is still strong. He will be with us 'til the end of our days.

  • Carlos: Nobody believes you, huh?

    Magdalena: About what?

    Carlos: "About what?", come on!

    Magdalena: [pauses] No.

    Carlos: Yeah, nobody believed me about anything all my life.

    Magdalena: That's because you're a liar, and a thief, and a pothead. And a gay.

    Carlos: [Makes face] So?