Y Tu Mama Tabien

Y Tu Mama Tambien is rather a unique movie, in which the director and writers did a good job in producing it to be a symbolic film. What I find to have been the most interesting part of the movie was the role of the narrator. Throughout the course of the movie, the narrator would enter into a scene with a rather detached tone and omniscience role, by revealing truths about each character which they refuse to acknowledge or even cannot know. This coincides with the fact that everyone does have their own secrets, and it’s these secrets that make them the characters that they are in this film. Another interesting part about the narrator is that he was rather an opposite figure from the two young males, Tenoch and Julio. He sounds mature and older, while the two main characters are immature and unreasonable. Although the role of the narrator is significant because of the
I felt that it depicts the role of females in society with such degradation. In the beginning of the film, we see Tenoch and Julio engaging in intercourse with their respective partners before they depart to travel to Italy for the Summer. During these scenes, talk of infidelity and being loyal arises, in which both women reassures their boyfriends that they will, indeed, not cheat on them. However, we later come to find out that there is more at matter than just their trip away. Throughout the movie, it is brought to our attention that both Tenoch and Julio had slept with the other’s girlfriend. Initially the reaction from both men are anger, but a lot of the anger were towards the women. This was evident in the fact that they would call the girls “sluts”. I find that to be unruly and unfair because the first revelation of the unfaithfulness took place after Tenoch had slept with Luisa. Why is it justified that he had cheated on his girlfriend, but when it comes to finding out that she cheated on him, she is automatically degraded into a