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Undocumented (Sin papeles) (2023)
Gives A Human Face to Immigrants
American news often portrays immigrants as criminals or dangerous people, dehumanizing them in the process.
This movie, does a great job at humanizing immigrants by telling the stories of four individuals who came to the United States fleeing from corruption, injustice, extreme poverty, and domestic abuse. The film shows not only their backstories, but also the sacrifices they made by leaving everything behind in pursuit of basic human rights.
The movie does not focus on how immigrants cross the border, but rather on the hardships they face once they arrive in their new and often unwelcoming destination. It shows how they deal with their disadvantageous position just to survive, their hard work, and effort they put to remain in their new society, just to be able to feed their families, help their loved ones back home, or simply to survive.
The film does an excellent job of giving the viewers a glimpse into the problems that immigrants face, creating empathy and understanding. But most importantly, it reminds us that immigrants are human beings, just like You. They have faces, families, feelings, and dreams and they hurt the same way we do. All they want is to survive and pursue the same things that most of us take for granted.