Under The Same Moon

I really enjoyed this film. I feel that most of us have no idea what it feels like to want something so bad that we would leave our child behind, swim across a river, risk going to jail, and start life over again the way Carlito's mother did. I am also pretty sure most of our children have never experienced anything like Carlito did. Just watching the way his mother worked several jobs to save money for Carlito to be with her, knowing an unscrupulous lawyer had already taken thousands of dollars from her and she could take no action against him because she was not a legal citizen was very impressive, and shame on the lawyer. It was as though she and Carlito both would let nothing get in the way of their being together. The movie brought out so many emotions. Distrust of Carlito's uncle who only wanted to take care of him to get the money that his mother sent. Horror at the couple who helped Carlito across the border when they allowed him to be towed away in the van where he could have died from the heat, too afraid of what might happen to them if they spoke up. Paco was so honorable, wanting to help Carlito's mother by marrying her so she then would become a US citizen. And shame on the woman who fired his mother for being young, and not paying her for the time she had already worked. The stranger who helped Carlito and never let him down after he realized how resourceful the boy was, was a very caring man in the end, he was probably arrested and returned to Mexico. I would definetly recommend this movie to other's, even with the subtitles