I'm not Mexican and I adore this movie. I'm sure being Mexican there's a whole other level there for someone to appreciate, but the themes throughout the film are fairly universal, I think. I stated in some other thread a while back that this film has an amazing balance of effectively capturing a culture (as those a part of it have said on here as well as the OP) as well as telling a much broader story and touching upon material most of us can identify with in someway. It's, seemingly, an insight into one part of the world while also feeling personal to whoever happens to be watching it, an impressive feat.
I'd say anyone who writes it off as something they can't connect to isn't giving it a solid chance and is perhaps somewhat ignorant, in my humble opinion. And I don't mean someone who just doesn't like the film, I mean more people who see this as some foreign movie and automatically thinking they won't "get," it. Just to clarify!

Um I f&cking love this movie to death, and I'm not Mexican. I'm sure the details the OP mentioned I'd appreciate even more if I
was
Mexican, but the film is amazing and deeply engaging on a universal level.

Well yes and no, I just saw it as a road movie. Nothing else really sticks to me, cause I can't relate.

Pues soy mexicano y la odi, ser que no tengo 16 aos. Prefiero ver Harry Potter 3.

Yes, unless you are suggesting that Mexican's are not really peopleand other humans can't relate to them.
Can Mexican's really enjoy American movies?

I really enjoyed watching this movie and I think it's great, but I think I know what you're talking about. I was born in America but my parents weren't, and when they raised me they really thoroughly made sure I was immersed in the culture and language of our country of origin. I fluently speak, read, and write in 'my' language in addition to English. I feel a familiarity and a sense of home when I am around other people of my ethnicity and when I visit the country where my parents are fromeven though I wasn't born there.
I am not Mexican nor do I speak Spanish. Y Tu Mama Tambien definitely has universal themes that anyone from anywhere can relate to and appreciate, but it's set in Mexico and created by Mexicans. there are certain things that non-Mexicans will never 'get', certain somethings about this film that only Mexicans will recognize. I feel the same way about films made in the country my parents are from.

I enjoyed it. I'm from Argentina and people here love it. Well I'm not entirely neutral 'cause I'm a film student and so are the people I'm talking about. But yeah, people in general like it too.

Just saw it with my Belgian husband. He loved it xD (Even if I had to explain a bit of the mis-translations. It's extremely easy to mis-translate as is a movie almost completely spoken in slang).

LMAO of course we can? I just saw it, I'm italian (i've watched it with the italian voice over of course, we're the best =P)
I really really liked it a lot! I'M SO HAPPY NOBODY DID THE REMAKE 'cause this is extremely remakable!!! Please, Alfonso, keep your film away from them.

I was wondering this myself too. I just watched it a few moments ago and I really really enjoyed it. But I thought it it was possible for a non-mexican to get the enjoyment out of it that I got because of the cultural differences. It was pretty funny, the way Julio and Tenoch spoke and interacted, the whole naco thing. I'm not sure if non-mexicans would get it, and also, the english subtitles excluded a lot of the humor and dialogue.
Great movie, Quaron is the man.

If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?

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I'm a french guy from Qubec (Canada) and I just LOVE this movie !
I't on my very top list with other movies like:
Ikiru
Fight Club
Das Experiment
The Piano Teacher
Oldboy
Lost in Translation
Night of the Living Dead
12 Angry Men
Requiem for a Dream
Alien
But I agree with you on one point. I don't think this movie could has been as good if it has been set in New Zealand or Baltimore. Every place as a different feeling, and Y tu mam tambin feels like it just catch that very feeling in addition to all it's other qualities.

African-American female here. Loved it. In fact, I just recommended it in another thread (Doom Generation) for someone looking for a movie with sexual tension between the male leads, who also happened to be involved with a woman.
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Im norwegian and i absolutely loved it!

I live in the Middle East and I really enjoyed the movie.. I agree it was refreshing not to see just drug cartels for once portraying Mexico.

White Venezuelan and I enjoyed it, but my first language is Spanish and I needed the subtitles lol

Depends what part of Mexico did u Visit?? ..Mexico does changes in it's locations

I don't really know what you guys mean. I'm Aussie, been to Mexico (loved it), but what do you mean when you say 'it captures Mexico'? There was nothing in this movie where I was like "oh, I didn't know they behaved like that in Mexico" or anything like that. It was a movie set in Mexico
Is there a misconception about Mexico or something, because nothing in this film surprised or stood out to me in that way.

I can't fully answer this question, because I'm not from Mexico and so I can never experience this movie from a different perspective, only as that of an American watching the movie. What I can say is that this movie completely changed my understanding of Mexico. As close as this country is to my own, being a direct neighbor, and despite having to take a course on it while in school, I was completely ignorant about Mexico and the Mexican people on a personal, day-to-day level. My viewpoint was completely informed through the daily news and documentaries that only spoke about disease, poverty, and crime. Co-workers and acquaintances from Mexico did nothing to dispel or temper this impression.
This movie, of course, also showed this side of life in Mexico. But it showed so much more than that. It humanized things I had only come to think of as "issues." More importantly, I saw for the first time, people of my own age group (at the time) living their lives and what I learned is that we are all so completely alike. All of us. This could be a movie set in the U.S. or Europe or anywhere. These characters are so easy to relate to.

I'm Mexican, you're right, I love this movie because it captures Mexico like no other Mexican movie has, it captures it not as a beauty, not as something ugly, it captures it as a fact. I think non Mexican people can enjoy this movie because it's a great movie, buy only Mexicans could truly relate to every aspect of it.
Whenever I get tiered of Mexican movies showing the decadence in Mexico, I go back and watch this movie.

I'm not a dirty beep but this movie was ok

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You might be right. I didn't realise they were in Mexico until about halfway through the film; before that I took them for some reason to be from a South American country like Argentina.
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Non-Mexicans may not appreciate the finer points of the film but its themes - love, life, death, mortality, growing up - are ones that anyone can identify with. Combine these with actors that inspire joie de vivre and an exploration of Mexico that most non-Mexicans could never access to enjoy and you have one fantastic film.
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