Movie Review: Girl in Progress Movie

                                                           
                                              Girl In Progress Movie Review
                             


 

I never thought Eva Mendes was an awesome actress. I've watched her movies in my days, well, that sounds too old, my days as in my childhood and teens times. She looks great by the way, like how all the celebs do usually. I just scrolled through my webpage that I saved in my Samsung Note 2. It's a site where you can watch free movies and it's the paradise of movies for me for my 1 month holiday.
  I woke up at 10:00 am this morning with my heavy eyes, not by my normal body alarm, but the super duper annoying garbage man outside my flat, the screeching cries of my owners 5 months old baby, or is it 4, I dunno and by the loud freaking thunder. I planned to wake up early last night, since we all slept at 9pm yesterday cuz dad was moody and went to bed so damn early and we didn't want to disturb him. I wanted to cook today, ya know, to help out mom with some cooking, so that I could cook something and she could come back home and relax instead of doing her usual cooking after work. I guess it's just me to check my facebook, twitter & instagram the moment i wake up still lying on the bed ( or it could be due to the 3 annoying things that owe me my sleep). I drank my warm lemon juice, a cup of green tea, 2 tomatoes, a carot, 2 firm toufu and now the leftover Chochiporange cake that I made yesterday for dad ( that's aka chocolate chip orange cake).
            I was scrolling down movies after movies as I read the casts in it looking for just some funny teeny girly movies and my eye caught 'Coming of Age' with Eva Mendes written below. I thought wat te hell. 1 word, loveit!
        It was kinda stupid at the beginning with Eva's so called daughter in the movie who creates her own Coming of Age story after getting done some research on that topic for her class English assginment handed to the class by the English teacher. The point was, she wanted to get wasted n leave her single, neglecting mom (Eva) and head to New York. I mean, that girl was serious. She made a whole plan of it on her board in her room. Her best friend was qute though. This movie basically portrays the life of a neglected teenager in a Latino family, well family as in she and her mom. The director portrays her as an intelligent student, a sweet friend and a filial daughter. I think what the director is tryin to picture out is that there are many teenagers in America who are being neglected by their parents, especially the immigrants, who are a minority in the country and the consequences the child and the parents has to face.
     I mean, if only her mom was there for her, during her win in the chess competition, during dinner every night and that night after she just lost her best friend, everything would have been under control. Child would enjoy being a child and parents would enjoy being a parent, be it single ir double. It highlighted to me againabout how grateful I should be for having such caring parents. What I'm trying to say is, I know that they aren't the most perfect parents in the world, but they are trying their best to support, care and love my brother and I to their ability. I mean life is about learning new things at a time and changing with it right. If her daughter hadn't planned that unrational story of hers, she wouldn't know how much she hurted and neglected her child. Let's just put as karma.

Eva was 17 when she got pregnant and her mother was never there for her when she needed her the most, chasing her impregnayed daughter out the house calling her stupid. Not to mention she's uneducated. So I guess Eva somewhat grew up thinking that this was the way to raise a child and she implemented that in her daughter's life without being aware of its negative implications it will come about. Hence, maybe the message was, it's not the fault of the parent but the parents parent. It's a chronological situation passed down generation after generations. The only way to break this thick cold ice is through hardcore practical education, and by hardcore it means getting to the core of the problem  by involving into the child, students or an adult's life. Youn see, it was through the teacher Eva found out about the nonsesical ideas of her daughter. It's kinda like a mediator or a massenger that shows how effected a person, or in this case, the child is that he or she is willing to miss out her precious childhood just to escape the feelings of being unimportant to the person you love. Speaking of the workings of the universe, in this case, the English assignment came in just the right time and place for a troubled neglected girl to break loose of her hell on earth. Karma takes its place again when her child tries to leave home the same way Eva was when she was a child. Funny thing is, Eva did loved her daughter very much by the way the always talked about her all the time. Even when she was having a 'fun time' with the guys she goes out with, she always talked about her to them, about how is she gonna pay her daughter's college. I mean if a parent really doesn't give a shit about their child, they wouldn't even bother working to earn to pay for their child's education. Besides, Eva was wanting to be more responsible by taking the oppurtunity to manage a Crab Shack all by herself with only 2 staff working for her, worse still both were also uneducated immigrants. Moreover, the motherly thought of wanting to train her daughter of how to do waitressing, saying that she needs t in the future shows the way she wants her daughter to learn the meaning of responsibilty. It also magnifies the way Eva herself was brought up by her mother to learn what responsibilty really means.

                                                                                         

            It seems that a person's action is the consequences of another person's actions is somewhat true. You use all your knowledge, experience, ability, strength, potential, skills and lessons that you know in your life to make something very valuable to you work and anything besides that is either human intervention or divine intervention to make that something 'valuable' to you to work more efficiently. Another point is that, it is only through a difficult, hard, stressful, painful and hurtful times that would push you to the edge making you discover your own potential and it is this potential that will last for a very long long time to come in your heart. Eva sat down for that web designing night class and worked her way up to building another human being into something close to perfect.

By, 

Jessica John Posko