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Y Tu Mamá También
(2001, Mex./US) (aka And Your Mother Too)
In director Alfonso Cuaron's road movie:
- the unrated tale of sexual discovery in the coming-of-age,
sensual journey film about a road trip with two 17 year-old Mexican
boys: Tenoch (Diego Luna) and Julio (Gael Garcia Bernal) and sexy
and wise 28 year-old Spanish beauty Luisa Cortes (Maribel Verdu)
to find an unspoiled mythical beach (known as Heaven's Mouth) -
a beach which they actually came upon
- the scene of the vicious fight between the two boys,
leading to Luisa's ultimatum that if she continued the trip with
them, they would have to play by her rules. ("We do things my
way! One more fight and I'm gone for good!...Now we play by my rules")
She counted out a 10-point Manifesto of rules - including: (1) "I
won't f--k with any of you. F--k each other, if you wish", (2) "I
sunbathe naked and I don't want you sniffing around like dogs",
(3) "I pick the music," (4) "The moment I ask, please
shut your mouths," (5) "You cook," (6) "No stories
about your poor girlfriends," (7) "If I ask, stay 10 yards
from me. Or better 100", (8) "Obviously, you do all the
manual labor," (9) "You may not speak of things you don't
agree on. Even better, just keep your mouths shut," (10) "You're
not allowed to contradict me, much less push me"
- the jukebox cantina sequence in which Luisa taught
the two vulgar lads lessons about life, after having had sex with
both of them separately; Tenoch asked: "Who f--ks better between
us? The truth." She tried to answer diplomatically:
"Despite the fiasco, you each have your own charms." She
then advised:
"You both have to quit whacking off and work up your resistance...Both
of you, stop whacking off." She then told the waiter: "These
boys don't know how to go down on a girl" - and then told Tenoch: "You
were slurping like this was a lollipop. You have to be gentle. You
have to make the clitoris your best friend...Search and you shall find.
The greatest pleasure is giving pleasure." The trio then toasted: "Hail
to the clit!"
- the boys' jealous expression of sexual rivalry and
boyish machismo over her, while also bragging about their sexual
experiences (blow-jobs) with their girlfriends. While 'spilling their
guts', both teens admitted that they had clandestinely slept with
each other's girlfriend many times. Tenoch told how he had slept
with Julio's girlfriend: "I f--ked Ceci a few times."
Julio counterpunched: "No big deal. I poked Ana a bunch of times."
Tenoch then claimed grossly: "So we're milk brothers!" Then
Luisa offered another humorous toast: "To your girlfriends who
are having 10 Italians at a time!" And shockingly, Julio also
confessed that he had sex with Tenoch’s mother -- the basis for
the film's title: "And your mother, too" - but was it said
in jest or not? He claimed: "And your mother, too, you know?...Honestly,
the day she cleaned my aura." The two boys raised their shot glasses:
"Luisa! To all mothers!"
- the film's most famous and pivotal scene - after
dancing with both boys (one on each side) in the cantina, Luisa gradually
led the boys to their hotel bedroom for a threesome. Luisa successfully
encouraged the boys to kiss and to have sex with each other, and
by the next morning, they woke up sleeping naked next to each other
- the end of their journey at the isolated beach where
the narrator (Daniel Giménez Cacho) explained the boys' departure,
and provided Luisa's last words to the boys: 'Life
is like the surf, so give yourself away like the sea.'
- a flashforward scene one year later in a coffee shop
that divulged Luisa's terminal illness
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