Charles Herold (cherold) In Real Women Have Curves, a young woman's college dreams are held at bay by her mother, who wants her to get a job, find a husband, and have babies.The young woman is the child of an immigrant, and while I always think of immigrants as wanting their children to lead better lives, Ana's mother Carmen seems to actively not want that. She constantly insults and belittles Ana and is a difficult character to emphasize with.This is not to say that Ana is perfect, displaying some youthful arrogance, but America Ferrera in her film debut displays all the charm that has made her a star.While the movie centers on the daughter-mother conflict, it's really about all sorts of things - body acceptance, the immigrant experience, youthful passions and insecurities. This is a small, slice-of-life movie with solid acting. I tend to like movies with more flash and higher drama, but this is very much the movie it sets out to be and works quite well.

lilijiangjing By looking at the title of the film "Real Women Have Curves," audiences can clearly know that film will talk about a group of women who have different sizes as others. This culture movie talked about a Mexican American family's life in L.A. The main character Ana is an American- born girl who has an old fashion Mexican-born mother. Sometimes they have had hard times communicating with each other because they grow up in different cultures and her mother Carmen always convinced Ana to do some things as her. This film has own style, which made it more special than others, such as the characters' chosen and their authenticity. Most female characters in the film were not good-looking women. It helps us related to real Mexican Americans look like. The main character Ana was a regular high school student who was not as other girls who make up and dress up nicely to go to school everyday. She cared about her schoolwork and she tried hard to convince her family to agree with her to continue her education. However, her mother Carmen thought that Ana should stay home, take care of men and get married to a nice person instead of thinking about college. Therefore, after Ana graduated from high school, her mother convinced her to work in her sister's dress factory which Ana was not very happy about doing. In the dress factory, most workers came from Mexico, wanting to have job in the U.S. However, even though they work hard making dresses, they did not get paid enough, only receiving $18 for each dress and each of them will be sold at $600 in the stores. When Ana heard this unfair business, she wondered why her sister still doing the job that she didn't even get paid fairly. One day in the factory, Ana felt so hot of working in the humid room which did not have any conditioners. Ana did not care about what her mother said concerning how fat she was, she just took off her clothes to cool herself. Her mother thought Ana was crazy and she felt very embarrassed that Ana didn't care about her appearance and body size. Her mother always said that Ana was too fat and she needed to lose weight. Other workers started to talk about fatness, and all of them thought they were fatter than one another. They started to take off their clothes to compete with each other to see who have the fattest body. They didn't think being oversize is a bad thing and they have confidence in their appearance. In this scene, audiences can see a truth of these Mexican American women. Even though they are overweight, they have confidence about their looks. In addition, it showed they are real women who have curves.This movie was not only focused on culture and women, it also focused on the motions of each member of the Mexican American family. Ana's dad seemed understand what Ana really wanted to do in her future, and he always stayed positives on Ana's decision. Her grandfather loved Ana and he respected her decision, too. Her grandfather even helped Ana dated with Jimmy who is Ana's boyfriend without telling Carmen. Other family member, such as her sister and boyfriend, all support her for going to college and continue her education. If you are interested in Mexican American culture, I recommend you to watch this movie and it will give you many information of how Mexicans' lives look like in the U.S.

Pro Jury *** May contain spoilers. *** Sad to say, the lead character of REAL WOMAN HAVE CURVES, Ana, was ungrateful, disrespectful, inconsiderate and completely self-centered to the point of being utterly unlikable. Early in the film, Ana gives her teacher a gift in such a condescending and flip-off manner, that any normal adult would say good riddance and avoid her at all cost in the future.The rest of the movie is an endless series of encounters between Ana and assorted adults in which she rudely treats her elders with contempt and disdain. In Ana's world, no one ever deserves the privilege to speak except for her and her teen boy pal. Unappreciative Ana glares down at the lowly adults within her range with scorn and repugnance. Ana, the all superior one -- all hail Ana! A more interesting movie would be to eject stuck-up Ana and simply tell the story of the adults struggling to make a living having seen their healthiest days long ago.

Polaris_DiB "Real Women Have Curves" is a film that, like many others, deals with various issues of race, generation, societal, weight, and gender conflict. The lead character is Ana, a girl who struggles with her own desire for independence while her mother uses her weight and her ethnicity to keep her "in her place." Movies dealing with these issues abound, and are in fact a rather significant part of the film industry. This film, however, is nice because it's rather life-affirming. Instead of making me (who is a white male) hate himself for being white, it instead makes me enjoy this look into another person's difficulties. Too many films about these issues tend to have something in the way of "survivor guilt." "Look at my culture, and see how beautiful it is. Now feel bad for not appreciating it before you saw this." This film is different, and it's rather enjoyable.For that matter, the overall dialog is clever and funny, so it's certainly a film to sit back and enjoy, and in the process feel a little bit more hopeful about the world.--PolarisDiB