A Day Without A Mexican

''A Day Without a Mexican'' ( directed by Sergio Arau .

''A Day Without a Mexican'' is the distributor's first theatrical release and opened May 14 , 2004 in limited release throughout Southern California and opened on September 17 in theaters in Chicago , Texas , Florida and New York City .

The film's Tagline is "There will be no Mexican s in California."

Plot

The film is a fantasy in which all Mexicans in the U.S. State of California suddenly disappear. The film takes a satirical look at the range of effects on the (non-Latino, mostly White) Californians who remain.
Similar to the film '''', in which devout Christian s disappear in the Rapture , this film does not dwell on the mechanics of how Latinos disappear. The disappearance is coincidal with a "pink fog" which surrounds California. Nothing crosses the pink fog border, and it is said to be responsible for the lack of telephone and internet communications outside the state.

CLAIMS IN THE FILM

On-screen statements

The film has a series of statements which are written in white text on the screen throughout the film. Sources for these statements are not provided anywhere in the film. These statements, in order of appearance, include:

The main character turns out to be an adopted Armenian . Armenians (who have an on going conflict with the Mexican population in Los Angeles) would never want to be Mexican.

Guatemala ns and Honduran s are not Mexicans

There are 40 countries south of The Border

20% of California K-12 teachers are Hispanic . (Actually, 14.5% of teachers are Hispanic. {Link without Title} )

8 of the L.A. Dodgers are Latino

Senator Shaw (a character in the movie) is a "closet Latino"

Every Hispanic on the West Coast is presumed to be Mexican

Agriculture is California's #1 industry, not )

60% of construction-workers in California are Hispanics. (Actually, 34% of construction workers in California are Hispanics. {Link without Title} )

Texas , California, Arizona , New Mexico , Colorado , Utah , Wyoming , and Nevada used to be part of Mexico. (This is partially correct, see Mexican-American War )

The Wall is 12 ft high recycled Gulf War landing plates. (Actually, most of the current wall consists of landing plates from an even older war, the Vietnam War . {Link without Title} )

In-film claims

During one of the film's many montages, the following conversation is heard in Spanish, and depicted in English subtitles:

: ―No way Telorino, the most popular name for babies being born in California is not Joe, or John, or Jack… its {Link without Title} José. Yes sir, José!

According to the Social Security Administration , the top 5 male names in California in 2004 ( source ) were:
# Daniel (4,095)
# Anthony (3,739)
# Andrew (3,425)
# José (3,312)
# Jacob (3,290)

One of the characters says that, "90% of the crops in the State were picked by Mexican, undocumented workers, crossing The Border …" ''See Illegal Alien and Migrant Worker .'' Accurate statistics about the percentage of employers who hire migrant workers are hard to find because of the amount of falsified documents used by those not authorized to work in the United States.

One of the characters says, "They were saying, 'Latinos take $3 billion in Social Service s and don't pay any taxes.' Turns out it's a big lie. There was $100 billion, we figured out, was what the Latinos were contributing to the economy of the State of California…" Presumably the filmmakers meant Illegal Alien s and not Latinos, since most Latinos do pay taxes. Actually, immigrant expenditures for both legal and illegal foreign-born Mexican migrants at the state and local level total $11.8 billion, and revenues total $11.6 billion, for a shortfall of about $200 million in costs for immigration, both legal and illegal. The actual purchasing power of foreign-born Mexicans is $51 billion. {Link without Title}

During a scene where the border patrol is sitting around without work, one officer is playing cards. Subtitles show up as he turns over the cards saying "deck of the missing." The pictures are of missing Californian Latinos, and the last one the officer flips over is Cheech Marin , a Californian Chicano and half of the " Cheech And Chong " duo.

CRITICISMS OF TITLE

In the United States , " Hispanic " generally refers to people whose background is from Spain , the Spanish -speaking countries of Latin America , or the original settlers of the traditionally Spanish- and Mexican-held Southwestern United States .

In the United States, Latino generally refers to people living in the United States who are of Latin America n background, regardless of the language they speak.

The film's title implies that it will be a film about the disappearance of Mexicans, but it is actually about the disappearance of Latino s. A factoid in the film states that, "every Hispanic on the West coast is presumed to be Mexican".

The film seems to use the terms Latino, Hispanic, Mexican, and and Mexican-American .''

TRIVIA

This was Eddy Palomo's last film before he died of a heart attack.

EXTERNAL LINKS

[http://uclaforecast.com/event/eventDisplay.asp?iEventID=26 The Latino Impact on the Southern California Economy] conference

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