An interesting cinematic response to current (2008) cultural globalization. The dead from the neck up old world meets the new and discovers a great deal about itself in the process. That migrants (& illegal ones at that) could teach natives a thing or two about humanity and spontaneity is the driver of this simple tale of cultures colliding. All of this is mediated through the universal language of music as well as through understated humor.
Although the phenotypical bonding is inherently contrived, this is to good effect. It allows for a drama that explores the pointlessness of immigration controls – especially when compared with the lack of similar curbs on the free movement of goods and capital – and their origin in White notions of cultural preservation from imagined external threats.
The acting is particularly fine and draws one in deeply to the drama of people looking either for something materially better or for something emotional they have lost and, perhaps, never had.
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