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Instructions Not Included: Movie Analysis

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The movie Instructions Not Included is shown off as a Mexican, sweet and cheesy chick flick through its previews. This movie is not just comedy, cute, witty, funny, but also contains extremely powerful messages through a truly heart-warming story. The movie follows a resident playboy in Mexico named Valentine. Valentine's life is flipped upside down when his former girlfriend leaves her baby Maggie on his door step, making him believe it's his. He leaves Mexico in search of the baby's mother to a hotel where she is working as a lifeguard in Los Angeles. At the hotel there is no sight of Maggie's mother. An incident occurs where Maggie in drowning in the pool and Valentine jumps off a balcony on the second story, into the pool to save his daughter. There is where he is offered a job as a stuntman. …show more content…

Throughout majority of the movie you think the guy is doing everything wrong. You start to question his parenting skills when you see that their apartment is filled with toys, and that he doesn’t send her to school but instead go to Disneyland. Then, the twist comes and you realize that you've been seeing things all wrong. He just wants his daughter to have the best life and spent the most possible time with her, because he found out that her daughter is going to die. Despite the movie being in mostly Spanish, the message translated through this film will tug at your heartstrings. From the beginning to the end there is combinations of laughs and emotions that through one way or another anyone can relate. It talks about the challenges and sacrifices parents have to face for their children. It also shows, that parents go out of their way and will risk many things to protect their children from getting hurt, even from their own families. Also, how important it is to spend family and quality time with their children because, we are not guaranteed how much time we will have with

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