Was that really necessary? That felt like it was added in just for the sake of being dark, why did we need to see this poor woman who has been in such hell all season trying to get back to her kids left in the desert to die with a broken ankle? That felt completely unnecessary.
shareBecause it's a very real danger in that situation.
shareIf you are a "coyote" who is trying to smuggle illegals into the U.S., you simply cannot afford to help or wait for someone just because they are hurt. It wasn't meant to be dark and it wasn't unnecessary. It was meant to show the reality of the business of human smuggling.
shareLol you people saying it was meant to show the danger of doing that and that it was necessary, we didn't need to see that, it would have been fine leaving it where it did with her, showing her being deported, that was depressing enough. We didn't need to know the mother of those boys got stranded in the desert alone to die. I don't see how that wasn't meant to be dark and depressing.
Theres also a danger of dying when you swallow heroine in a balloon but they didn't feel the need to show us it.
"There's also a danger of dying when yous wallow heroine in a balloon but they didn't feel the need to show us it."
Excellent point, here. But, heroine use isn't a hot-button modern American political issue, is it? I know what you're saying, and I agree. They had to make sure and show one of the worst case scenarios, no matter how improbable, to try and make their point on how bad the immigrant situation is, as if they hadn't done plenty to make that point already. I don't mind dark endings. I'm fine that they did it, but I just wish they would have done it in a more realistic way. There was a huge, flat, open path that everyone else was using, but she chooses to skate the very edge and shatter her ankle on, what looked to be, one of the few rocks in the desert. It reminded me of that scene from "The Men Who Stare at Goats", only that scene was intentionally comedic.
Her son would have made a fantastic El Salvadorian gangster!
sharegood scene I liked it, whats wrong with that; u a liberal dem or a mex? lol!!
shareWhen I saw that scene unfold I was happy that the mom (agree or disagree with the politics) was so intent on reuniting with her kids she was willing to take a huge risk to do so.
The more powerful message would have been to leave the outcome ambiguous or show her succeeding. Rather than letting the audience interpret her courage or excessive risk taking to reunite with her children, we leave her to apparently perish in the desert and make her a victim.
Her character deserved better.