El Viaje de Carol

This film was not so great to watch with out subtitles for me. It felt very foreign. I did enjoy tyring to figure out what was going on. But after reading other blogs I found that I totally didn't have a clue! What I saw just by watching was that a young Spanish-American girl that was with her mother traveling to her mothers hometown. Carol seemed out of place at first. She was fluent in her mother's language. She is a smart girl to be bilingual. Like with all the film's we have viewed there was some sort of war going on. I could tell that America had to be involved because Carol's dad was an American military man. Their was something bad written on her grandfathers house that was meant for Carol. She seemed to be very American to me because of her independace and tomboy attitude and dress. My favorite part of the film was when her and the boy get into a fight. Carol wins and gets her hat back. I knew that the two of them would end up in love. Their relationship grew and they became so close. I could not belive that this girl ended up loosing her mother and her first love. It was refreshing to see the father and granfather have good strong roles in Carol's life. They could be real men, not macho men. They were both there for her. I'm not sure if Carol struggled with a new culture. I think that she strugled with racism against her because she was half American. All over the world children have to grow up to fast and suffer because of adults.