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Film Analysis: Born In East L. A.
Born in East L.A.

We watched Born in East L.A. for our in class movie. I enjoyed it a lot. I’ve never seen this movie, which is surprising because I’ve seen most movies with Cheech in it. Although the movie was humorous, there were a lot of political issues embedded within and some of the issues are even present today, even though the movie was made in 1987. I thought the situation when Rudy gets deported is kind of shocking actually. I know it’s meant to be funny, but things like this happen more than we realize. It’s pretty funny how immigration determine if he’s an illegal or not by asking him who the president is. You would think that they should do bit better analysis especially when they hear Rudy speak English so well. I can

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