Y Tu Mama Tambien

Y Tu Mama Tambien is the first Mexican produced film that I have ever seen, it is also one of the first films that I have seen that very candidly allows sex to be shown on the screen. Although there are many sex scenes throughout the film, I feel that that is not where the director feels the focus of the film should be on.

The film follows the life of two friends, Julio and Tenoch, who seem to be in high school and about to graduate. Both of their girlfriends are traveling through Europe together, thus leaving the two friends in Mexico for the summer. They experiment in everything from drugs to sex. One afternoon they go to a wedding in which Tenoch and Julio meet Luisa, Tenoch's cousins wife. At the wedding Tenoch and Julio talk to Luisa and tell her about this private beach that no one knows about where they want her to go with them. She tells him that she would love to go and she will talk to her husband and see when he might be available, knowing all along that the boys are just trying to sleep with her.

Luisa soon finds out that her husband is cheating on her and calls Julio and Tenoch and tells her that she wants to go to the beach with them. The three travel together to a beach which technically does not exist and this is when the story begins to unfold. Luisa ends up sleeping with Julio and Tenoch and then both of them, until one drunken night when she pushes the two boys together and they start making love. Each boy finds out the the other has slept with their girlfriend and their friendship begins to break apart. Luisa teaches them that they need to grow-up and in doing that they should focus less on masturbating and sexual acts and more on friendships. Luisa decides to stay at the beach and live with a family on the coast there. Within a few months the boys, who have not spoken to one another since the beach, run into each other and discover that Luisa has died of cancer.

Y Tu Mama Tambien is a story of celebrating life, Luisa finally makes the decision to make the last moments of her life amazing and to simply do what her heart wants. It is evident that Luisa married for security and once she let go of that she was a much happier person. Tenoch seems to be going down a similar path, he is doing what is best for his elite family, the pull of society has greatly influenced him. Julio seems to be much more true to himself throughout the film. The film begins by showing the boys being run by their hormones and ends with the boys in a much more wiser state of mind.