June 4, 2005
3.0.gif by Spanglish
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Spanglish
directed by James L. Brooks
starring Adam Sandler
2004
I've never been much of an Adam Sandler fan. I can never stand his juvenile humor. But Spanglish has him doing something different: Acting. It's basically the story of a Mexican immigrant finding the way for her daughter in America. It all about relationships, between social classes, between parents and children, and between husband and wife. While it was well done and funny in spots, it just wasn't satisfying in the end.
[spoiler warning]
Surprisingly, the movie has a moral ending where the characters actually don't choose adultery. Despite the hardships and the difficulties they choose to give a broken marriage a chance. But the movie is geared in such a way that this ending doesn't satisfy. Even though it's wrong, you yearn for the Hollywood ending where the two people in love forget the bonds of marriage and commit adultery. While the characters do make the right choice, the movie makes you wish they didn't. It's a bit of Hollywood manipulation that ultimately makes it very unsatisfying.
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