At the beginning of the movie "In America", the Irish immigrants can't wait to get out of Canada and into the "land of opportunity". Of course, America is the land of exploitation and rip-offs as the movie clearly shows. The carny who entices the family to spend their rent on a toy is an adequate symbol. Later, when the family gets the medical bill that's in the 5 digit range, I as a Canadian am appalled that people would leave a country that has free medicare to move to the U.S.A.. If they lived in a country where basic things like child birth are provided by hospitals free of charge, they would not need to rely on magical wishes and voodoo men to save them from poverty. God bless Tommy Douglas, our Mateo. The immigrants in "IN American" should have stayed "IN CANADA".
Review of In America
