This movie is the perfect portrayal of a family prone to poverty while literally living on gold. This movie isn't suppose to be funny nor have a happy ending. This movie shows a pattern in habits coming down generation after generation. It's a portrayal of how you can runaway and attempt to break a chain but if you come back you will fall into the same pattern of generational poverty.
Starting with how the movie shows Pancho a top employee on the brink of getting an huge promotion is is ignoring constant calls from his father. He tries to avoid his father until dinner arrives and the father calls again. He picks up and is told to please come to the wake and reading of the will as it is his grandfather's last wish for him to be there and they can't legally go on without him. Pancho in turn tells his father that although sad he can not go and to go on without him. After attempting to avoid his family, Pancho had a nightmare and eventually goes to the providence and goes back to his childhood home. As they pull up to the family home we see that it's dirty, smelly, and poorly kept despite the fact that multiple people live there. Most of which are able bodied.
We meet the Reyes family who are all poor and in unstable relationships. We see as the family takes care of two pregnant underaged girls one of which is his brother's girlfriend and the other his sister whose baby daddy left her early in the pregnancy. His parents decided he to throw them a party in celebration of his return and buy more then they can pay. They soon decided to ask for money from Pancho who is caught making out with his sister in law. He asks how much they need and they say 10,000 pesos while he's arguing about the price the mom reaches for the wallet and grabs a large amount of money claiming to give him back what's left over. While the movie progresses we see Pancho's family start taking advantage of him and his money for he is well off.
Poncho slowly starts going back to old habits and poor decisions are starting to be made. While his wife and kids also start picking up habits but still are wary of his families personalities. His family being poor doesn't hold back from using his money, going as far has having him pay for their prostitutes. We start to see Pancho go from a smart, clean, and happily married man to a drunk, dirty, and unloyal man with his Wife starting poor patterns as well.
Near the end of the movie we see what greed, generational habits, and poverty will take you. With the family losing the property completely and Pancho going from becoming a top paid employee to sweeping floors thanks to his old secretary. The once proud boss calling Pancho names they use to call the "lesser" employees. We see as Pancho's home goes from a clean and well kept home to a dirty and unkept home. The house is surrounded by trash and overgrown weeds while the inside is equally dirty and trashed. We watch as his wife comes down pregnant and drunk as their kids follow all dirty and unkept. As she greets him she tells him she has a surprise and shows him that his entire family is staying with him indefinitely. He is shaken awake by his pregnant wife and is told he was having a nightmare and to quiet down because she's hungover, soon we hear the rest of the family complaining about the noise confirming he wasn't dreaming. The movie ends as we watch him leave his dirty home on his way to work.
This movie is long and terrifying. It has slowly become my favorite horror movie with many of characters resembling many characters from my own life. Although not many will understand what a poverty mindset is those who do will love this movie.
Starting with how the movie shows Pancho a top employee on the brink of getting an huge promotion is is ignoring constant calls from his father. He tries to avoid his father until dinner arrives and the father calls again. He picks up and is told to please come to the wake and reading of the will as it is his grandfather's last wish for him to be there and they can't legally go on without him. Pancho in turn tells his father that although sad he can not go and to go on without him. After attempting to avoid his family, Pancho had a nightmare and eventually goes to the providence and goes back to his childhood home. As they pull up to the family home we see that it's dirty, smelly, and poorly kept despite the fact that multiple people live there. Most of which are able bodied.
We meet the Reyes family who are all poor and in unstable relationships. We see as the family takes care of two pregnant underaged girls one of which is his brother's girlfriend and the other his sister whose baby daddy left her early in the pregnancy. His parents decided he to throw them a party in celebration of his return and buy more then they can pay. They soon decided to ask for money from Pancho who is caught making out with his sister in law. He asks how much they need and they say 10,000 pesos while he's arguing about the price the mom reaches for the wallet and grabs a large amount of money claiming to give him back what's left over. While the movie progresses we see Pancho's family start taking advantage of him and his money for he is well off.
Poncho slowly starts going back to old habits and poor decisions are starting to be made. While his wife and kids also start picking up habits but still are wary of his families personalities. His family being poor doesn't hold back from using his money, going as far has having him pay for their prostitutes. We start to see Pancho go from a smart, clean, and happily married man to a drunk, dirty, and unloyal man with his Wife starting poor patterns as well.
Near the end of the movie we see what greed, generational habits, and poverty will take you. With the family losing the property completely and Pancho going from becoming a top paid employee to sweeping floors thanks to his old secretary. The once proud boss calling Pancho names they use to call the "lesser" employees. We see as Pancho's home goes from a clean and well kept home to a dirty and unkept home. The house is surrounded by trash and overgrown weeds while the inside is equally dirty and trashed. We watch as his wife comes down pregnant and drunk as their kids follow all dirty and unkept. As she greets him she tells him she has a surprise and shows him that his entire family is staying with him indefinitely. He is shaken awake by his pregnant wife and is told he was having a nightmare and to quiet down because she's hungover, soon we hear the rest of the family complaining about the noise confirming he wasn't dreaming. The movie ends as we watch him leave his dirty home on his way to work.
This movie is long and terrifying. It has slowly become my favorite horror movie with many of characters resembling many characters from my own life. Although not many will understand what a poverty mindset is those who do will love this movie.