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Title: Showing my Professor what I've learned
Review: This film has relevance toward the lives of many young girls today. It illustrates how expectations on women, especially those of lower economic status, can cause hardships for young women. Carmen sets many stereotypical expectations on Anna as to how a proper Latina girl should act and grow as a woman. Anna, on the other hand, wants no part in domestication, and to be looked upon as an object for men. She realizes she's very curvy, but finds that she does not have to hide this just to be noticed by men; she does not have to partake in a stereotype just to please her mother, or to become and object for the `male gaze'. Anna's character criticizes society's expectations on women, and reminds us that even a woman, a Latina woman with little money, can break free from the "proper" feminine characteristics and expectations; ideals passed down through the generations. Anna also reminds us that real women are not stick thin and are still beautiful and strong.
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