Mi Familia/My Family by Gregory Nava

This story chronicles three generations of a Mexican family's emigrating to the East of Los Angeles. The story starts when Jose Gonzales, the Dad of the family, wants to find a job to get money for living. He travels to los Angeles to meet with "El Californio, who was born in the city when it was still part of Mexico. This men offered him work with the corn crops and they became friends.

Jose meets Maria, the mother of Chucho, Isabel,Paco, Toni, Jimmy and Memo, who was an American citizen. During the time she was pregnant of her first baby, she went to the groceries store and that she was caught and deported to Mexico by the U.S. Federal Government in a mass roundup. Two years later, she makes it back to Los Angeles with Chucho to meet with his husband.

In this parts i can identify the first two borders in the movie, when Jose walks to Los Angeles and then when Maria finds the way to go back home with her son.

Right in the middle between Mexico and California were the family Sanchez settled. In the beginning, this situation wasn't a big deal. The eldest daughter Irene gets married. Chucho and Paco, the narrator of the story, were grown up. Memo and Jimmy were the new additions in the family.

The outstanding moment starts right in the wedding of Irene, were Chucho and his "crew" face with Butch Mejia and his men who start to bother him. Chucho had the look of the angel of the family, because he was the first son and his father Jose loved him a lot. What their parents didn't know was that he was involved in marihuana business and they received the call from the police station to alert that Chucho was doing this kind of things. This day was the start of Chucho's wildness. After he fought with his dad at home, he left the house. He preferred to leave, than regret from his mistake in front of his little brothers. Mr. Jose was disappointed, heartbroken and very sad. Later Chucho involved in other big problem during a dance when his rival Butch came to bother him and his girlfriend. In the middle of the fight a knife appeared on the scene and Chucho killed this guy accidentally. After this event, Chucho became a fugitive by the police. Later the police was chasing him and he got shot by them in front of his brother Jimmy, who was playing nearby.

So many years passed and Jimmy became in the biggest hard-heart person in this world, he went to jail because he became an angry man following in his brother step's becoming a fugitive like him. Jimmy was very upset and mad with all this problems, because he never knew the reason but he felt that the police men did it in purpose. Jimmy had a big trauma for 20 years after this accident until he gets in love with Isabel who felt the same way as his. He felt a relief when he shared the anger he had to Isabel who also confronted the scene when her dad was killed in front of her face. He had a baby with Isabela but sadly she died right after she gave birth and Jimmy enraged attacked the doctor who helped Isabela during the surgery and full of this anger he assaulted a jewerly and the police caught him and he went to jail again.

Later, when he came out of prison he wanted to meet his little baby. The little kid was very crazy, because he grew up only with his grandparents who represented nothing for him! His mother died and his that just came out of prison and this kid didn't pay attention to his dad at all.

This movie has a lot of borders . We talked about the bridges when Jose crossed and then when Jimmy was on his way to work. Other one is the border between Toni and the Priest she wanted to marry after all, because in our religion that's not normal neither allowed. Also there was a border between the friends of Memo and his family because they thought "William" lived in other conditions, so they were feeling uncomfortable in his house, the way they looked to their crops was not the best and to the dog in the middle of the way, everything!.. Memo was trying to hide his childhood stories and his family background too.