El Viaje de Carol

I find this to be the most difficult of all the posts we have had since I didn't know what was being said in the film. I considered watching the movie now with subtitles but decided not to wait for the library to get the movie in since this usually takes several days. Not having seen her in her American home it is very difficult for me to compare her new culture. I didn't feel that she had to adapt too much, she already spoke fluent Spanish because of her mother. She met many new people, her grandfather and her aunt and uncle and cousins(?) I don't know if she had met them previously. She seemed to easily make friends with the children she came in contact with. I didn't find the beginning scene where her hat was taken to be very different from any child moving to a new area, whether it was a new city, state or country. Having been a child whose parents moved around a lot, I frequently was in a situation where I had to make new friends and start over again. I did think that the hardest part she had to adapt to was being without her father and knowing he was at war and in constant danger. She seemed relatively happy while her mother was alive. Her mother apparently was able to read and write in English because after she died she had to have Maruca's help to write to her father. I am not sure if she attended church before the move or what religion she practiced but this was an obvious change for her as she seemed somewhat out of place during communion. Also, the revolution going on around her must have been confusing too. After her mother died she must have felt very alone, it was good that she felt so close to her grandfather. I am not sure what happened to her father, and assume that she was returning to America in the end to be with him. The film seemed to be very touching and I probably will watch it with subtitles, just to see what I missed.