I saw this film and I was grateful I am bilingual and simultaneously be Mexican-American and have grown up in Mexico. I am glad because as I grew up in Mexico I know how Mexican Culture is in comparison to Mexican-American culture and I was able to distinguish some differences and similarities. Also, I realized that by being in a country far from your native culture, makes people be more attached and even more rigid with some beliefs and attitudes. The importance of the debutante girl becoming a woman and social expectations conformed by religion and tradition, which can overlap.
It was important to realize that the main reason there was reconciliation between daughter and father was the fact that she was still a virgin even if she was pregnant. In this moment I believe Queer Theory could have a main role explaining how some terms are subjective and there is not a clearly defined idea about sex and even virginity. Also, it is a wonderful example of Intersectionality as she was not a pregnant adolescent, but she was also a woman, and a Mexican-American.
Intersectionality is also interesting here to think of Carlos, as he seems to escape the constraining force of categorization. Is he gay? Is he hetero-flexible? Is he just sexual? Is he just refusing prescriptions for desire established by his culture? What else is he refusing in accepting objects of desire that he technically shouldn't?
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