"La vida es un volado"
Directed By: Carlos Cuaron (2008)
Plot Summary: Mexican half brothers Beto and Tato - who will eventually be appropriately nicknamed Rudo (rough) and Cursi (corny), respectively - have a typical love/hate relationship with each other. They both work on a banana plantation and live with their extended family consisting of their mother, abusive stepfather, sister Nadia, and Beto's wife Toña and their children. The family are rural peasant class and are barely making ends meet. The brother's fortunes change when into their lives comes Batuta, a soccer scout. Despite their advancing ages, both Beto and Tato are naturally gifted at soccer, Beto as a goaltender and Tato as a striker. Playing professionally has always been Beto's dream, although Tato has other professional thoughts on his mind. Batuta eventually recruits both for different teams in Mexico City. Beto and Tato's fortunes rise and fall, the falls based on those things which hold more passion for the brothers. For Tato, he loves fast women, specifically television spokes-model Maya, but he loves singing even more. He would give up his soccer career for one in Mexican country singing, if only he was any good at it. For Beto, his passion is gambling. Although Beto is up front and straightforward about most things in life, he would lie and cheat to hide his gambling problem and debts. They just have to keep these alternate passions in check to make their soccer lives lucrative ones.
"Rudo y Cursi" Summary
ReplyDeleteEscrito por: Haley Rathge
"Rudo y Cursi" was this week's featured movie for Cultural Movie Night. It was about two half brothers (same mothers, but different fathers) from a rural town. They fight about who is the better soccer player. A talent scout picked up Tato after he beat his brother in a soccer bet. Tato starts off slow in his professional soccer team but then starts scoring goal after goal and gets the nickname "Cursi." Beto eventually gets on a professional soccer team, too. It is the rival team of Cursi. Cursi gets a house and a beautiful girlfriend who ends up cheating on him. Beto gets addicted to gambling and drugs. He owes a lot of money to some bad people, so he is told to throw the game against his brother's team. Beto accidentally blocks the shot by Cursi, and the game ends in a tie. Cursi ends up singing at a nightclub that this brother-in-law owes, and Beto loses a leg after being shot by the men he owed money to. They en up living at home with their mother and their families again.
I think that this movie was really funny. I think that the fighting and the language made it more appealing to a college audience. I think that this movie has a lot of lessons to be learned from it. The most important is that no matter what, family should be the most important thing in your life. Money and fame can come and go, but your family will always be there.
Movie Review
ReplyDeleteEscrito por: Kayleigh Collins
The movie kept my attention the whole time, so that made me happy. But, the whole time, I thought the whole situation was a little shady. The manager of the two brothers seemed like he was always up to something. And the whole movie I was just sitting there waiting for him to tell the brothers that this was all fake.
I thought that the brothers had a strange relationship, and that they were very different. The brother who got drafted first seemed like he only cared about the fame. Because as soon as he started that girl who hosted the sports TV. He lost focus of the game, and he was spending money and only doing photo shoots. The other brother seemed like he cared a lot more about the game, but this could be because he had a family to support and that was depending on him.
I was really annoyed when I realized the brother was wasting all that money on gambling. He worked so hard to make this money and just blew it all in one game. He had his family to support; he shouldn't have been doing that.
During the end of the movie, I was actually really nervous. I had a feeling that the brothers wouldn't agree on an angle to shoot the ball, and that it would get messed up. I don't like how it came down to that, it's actually sad.
Both of the brothers had so much going for them, but at the end of the movie, they both ended up where they came from.
Rudo y Cursi
ReplyDeleteEscrito por: Stacy Fenstermaker
The movie Rudo y Cursi was very interesting because it seemed like it could be a very realistc situation. I liked the brothers, but a lot of the things that happened to both of them, they could have prevented from happening. If I were Cursi or even someone else in his family, I would have tried to help Rudo with his gambling problems. He got way out of hand by lying to everyone and taking his brother's stuff to gamble away.
It is sad when people have true talent, and they end up throwing it away due to their mistakes. I think they both could have excelled in soccer, but they let life kind of lead them in the wrong directions. I predicted that Cursi's girlfriend was taking advantage of him and would have easily left him for someone else. Rudo ended up being quite lucky with what happened to him, since the gamblers can be very dangerous and could have killed him. Both of them used to be independent on their own levels, but now that they screwed up their lives, they are completely dependent on their brother-in-law which is very ironic since both of the brothers did not want their sister to be with him in the first place.
The movie was very comedic, but it also portrayed some good lessons and used good analogies when it came to relating soccer to different aspects of life. I really enjoyed this movie because it was very funny, but also very realistic.