Documentary Summary - Crossing Over

A few minutes later, a middle-aged man sits slew in front of the manoeuver wheel of the car where Xochimilco and I are waiting. Without saying a word, he starts the motor and we close in off. (P.14) This is what Ramon Tianguis Perez states at the end of From daybook of an Undocumented Immigrant. In the course session the main character Martin is on the way to the United States as a wetback downstairs the coyotes help. At that time his heart is change with bright hope for this trip. In his mind America is a perfect country. There he will earn a lot of money and live on a good radical life. After reading this text, I thought of a characterization I saw before, which has a similar fundament that nation should fight for their dreams. Compared to the reading, I judge the way that the word-painting states the theme is more efficiently, because of following reasons.\nAt first they both speak almost the illegal immigrants in the United States. However, compared to the readin g that describes how the immigrants go to America, the delineation focuses how they live and engagement to achieve legal situation after coming to America. So I think that the movie can be the prolongation of the reading. It gives audience an ending about the immigration. Second the movie chooses a better view to see the story than the reading. In the reading, the champion (author), himself is an immigrant. So he as a first psyche storyteller tells the story from his memory. We as the audience can lionise intuitively what he thinks about during the story and what he does for release to the United States. In contrast, the put down uses the third person narrator to display immigrants life. The protagonist sludge Brogan is an immigration officer. He is a spectator for the immigration. The movie just uses his eyes to come out the audience whats possibility about the illegal immigration. He looks like a member of the audiences, but the difference is that he is in the story, and the audience just sits in the cinema to watch. So ...