El Viaje de Carol

This movie was very interesting without subtitles. Just when you thought you knew what was going on it was not that at all. Carol was such an independent child which was more of her American background. The women of this culture are usually subserviant to men and put up with abuse and I bet learn this at a young age, however, Carol had no problem sticking up for herself when the boys were picking on her in the beginning of the movie. She missed her Americna roots as you could tell she always prayed in English and was not willing to conform to the ways of the culture in Spain as evidenced by not wanting to dress the part for first communion since she was not catholic. She liked sitting up in the trees and just dressed like a tom boy and hung out with the guys. After her mother died she did not want to live with her aunt and uncle ( or whoever those two people were), which is not how their culture usually operates.Family is of the upmost importance and they are always very close, but Carol just wanted to be with her grandpa.

Carol was able to find love in her life in the little boy. ( do not know his name). She had been through so much in having to move to another country, lose her mother and her father was away serving in the military. At the end of the movie the love in her life was killed, but she at least had known how it felt to love. The end as she was driving away in the car was so cool how the boys were riding behind waving and then the little boy who had been shot and killed appeared to her and was waving as well.

This was a very good movie, and I bet would have been even better with subtitles.