Y Tu Mamá También (2002)

From the second half of this otherwise elegant film the viewer realizes that the reason the young lady is sad & depressed is because she is terminally ill. Obviously she is decided to spend her last carefree vacation before she dies. The script would be fine only if cancer WAS NOT a contagious disease. Cancer has a virus-like etiology (HPV16, 18, rotavirus...etc.)and is in fact a contagious disease. Obviously the script-writer is not aware of this scientific fact. Thus the young lady from a romantic character becomes a villain. She knows very well that she is infected with cancer but nevertheless she has sex with two yang boys - thus infected them as well. It is a terrible crime, not a careless adventure. In such way the movie from romantic masterpiece becomes a tasteless thriller.

As soon as i started watching this movie, I felt like i was going to puke. Now i don't mind sex scenes but too much can be really over the top. The two reasons of why i started to want to watch was because:1. it was a bisexual movie. 2. Gael García Bernal who was on the movie "The Crime of Father Amaro" appeared on this too! He really looked like a hillbilly in this which doesn't suit him.Even though i watched this with English subtitles, i didn't understand what the characters meant. I know every English word but seriously they looked jumbled up or it was just me as a person who speaks English fluently. I think this isn't a good film to look at, especially if you are a romantic sort!

In Mexico City, horny best friends Tenoch Iturbide (Diego Luna) and Julio Zapata (Gael García Bernal) aimlessly drift as college beckons and their girlfriends are traveling overseas. At a family wedding, they meet Luisa Cortés (Maribel Verdú), a slightly older woman and the wife of Tenoch's cousin Jano. Jano is cheating on her and she gets news from a doctor. She agrees to go on a road trip with the boys to a non-existent beach and find an intense rollicking sexual journey.What a trio! It was my first introduction to these three actors. It's incredible to discover both Luna and Bernal at the same time. Their magnetic personalities are obvious right away. Maribel Verdú is no shrinking violet either. The three of them are terrific together. Some of it is a little slow especially the beginning. There are also great scenes that are absolutely electric. It's also my first Alfonso Cuarón movie and I didn't connect him to my favorite Harry Potter movie Prisoner of Azkaban until much later. He has such amazing range.

The way Alfonso Cuaron shifts from a Children's novel adaptation (A Little Princess) to a classic novel adaptation (Great Expectations) to an adult road-trip movie is really fascinating. 'Y Tu Mama Tambien' is one of my favourite road-trip movies, but to call it just a road-trip movie would really be an understatement; not only is it a thrilling journey of sexual exploration, but also a nuanced exploration of some of the most pressing socio-economic issues of our time. The narrator gives us interesting character histories, and intriguing but haunting societal insights which make the story quite gripping, and makes Mexico a character as well. Other than that, as critic Roger Ebert says, 'it (the movie) is about the fragility of life and the finality of death.' And the film is funny as hell; its humour is quite well-placed. It takes the genre of teen sex-comedy to completely new heights.Class-division really plays an important role in establishing relationships; even in the best of friendships, there's always a deep-seated impact it has. No matter how close we are to someone, we always keep a few things secret. A free-spirited road-trip cum sexual adventure boils down to a night where true feelings and pinions come out in the open; things are never the same after that.The three lead actors, Gael Garcia Bernal, Maribel Verdu and Diego Luna, are really talented, and given riveting performances. Other than the three characters and Mexico, we invisibly become a part of their journey and their lives. The cinematography is spectacular, and captures Mexico with such elegance. The one-shot scene towards the end, in the bar, which starts with conversation and ends with a dance, is quite a remarkable sequence. The passionate kiss which comes after this scene is sensual and memorable.The film is quite observant, doesn't compromise anywhere with its storytelling, and doesn't take any moralistic stance on any aspect; that's what makes the film so gripping and compelling.