A Day without a Mexican

"A Day without a Mexican" is a movie that gives us a picture of what life in California would be like without a Mexican. Because California is so close to Mexico, many Mexicans illegally immigrate into the United States by crossing that border. Many people in California do not agree with this, but it continues to go on, and continues upsetting people. On a random day, as everyone awakens in the morning, they find that all the Mexicans in California are gone; they are no where to be found. Obviously, the producers of this film are not trying to relate to us that Mexicans did in fact physically disappear, rather, they are showing the audience that all these legal and illegal immigrants play a role in our society, and without them, things were not functioning as normal. Some of those immigrants were babysitters, crop pickers, news reporters, businessmen and husbands; normal day to day jobs. Without these people, parents had no one to take their children to school, farmers were left short handed, desks were left empty, and families were scared for their spouses and children. I thought the producers appealed to pathos and logos the most in this movie. In appealing to pathos, they depicted the picture of the family in which the husband was Mexican and the wife American. They should us how broken she was when she found out that her husband and her son were missing along with the other Mexicans. In appealing to logos, the producers showed exaggerations of what people consider Mexicans and what they do in the United States, and then, in writing, they showed the real facts (which were completer opposite of what people had claimed). I thought this movie was a good way of showing that everyone in the United States, no matter where you are from, plays a role in their community. I liked the movie because of its sarcastic tones, and the interesting way it relays a somewhat serious message.