From Mexico with Love
How much is a man worth?
Four bucks an hour
for the lucky ones.
How do you feed your family?
Where do you find hope
when your name
isn't even worth writing down?
There's a big fence separating
the rich and the poor,
bigger than the one
dividing the land
and much harder to climb.
Where does a man get
his strength to survive?
From his will to fight.
I come from a people of fighters,
who fight because they have to.
How much is a man worth?
of the fence you're on
the day you were born.
From Mexico With Love
Laredo, Texas
Tensions at the border
continue to escalate
as Congress decreed
that a double reinforced
steel and wire fence
take positions along the border
for an extended period of time.
This is
the United States Border Patrol.
You have illegally entered
into U.S. territory.
Halt!
Altos!
Hands up!
Los manos arriba!
- Let's go.
- Que se meten por adentro.
Inside everybody.
Por adentro, por adentro.
Look out, I gotcha there.
- Tito!
- Hey, Pete.
- Hey, you like this one?
- God, darn it!
Man, that's a huge one!
- Ain't she beautiful?
- About the biggest one I've ever seen!
She'll catch a good price.
There you go, baby.
How big you think that is?
I don't know,
about five, six pounds.
God dog. Man.
You out here alone?
Just me and the snakes, brother.
Hey, I got to check
the back of your van.
Do what you
got to do, brother.
All right.
Nice! Looks like
business has been good.
I can't complain.
I saw you got yourself
a pretty good catch this afternoon.
Yeah, every day, 24/7.
Well, you got your majalos,
I got my snakes, brother.
Business is good for us both.
Just stay out of trouble, Tito.
Hey, you know me.
how not to get bit.
Come on, man,
you're late, late, late.
Come on, let's go!
This is all you can find?
I thought you put the word out.
I did put the word out,
but everyone prefers
the action at Red's.
All right! Fight night at Giorgi's.
Here we go.
Ready to make some money?
Let's go.
Better, better, better, bet, bet, bet!
Come on, three to one odds.
Let's do it.
Hold on, all right.
You got it.
Good! AII right!
We'll get some money.
We get all of the money.
That's what we like.
Any more? Two to one?
There you go.
Giorgi, I'll go for 25, man!
He's betting on himself!
Look out!
Twenty-five, we got that.
Big guy!
Big one, he looks tough.
Come on!
Gracias.
Yo, Tito.
- You're late.
- I'm sorry.
Go. Come on.
Get in there.
- You got the medicine?
- Yeah.
All right.
- Hey.
- What?
You know them?
I don't know.
They come in different shifts.
Could be someone else.
What are you doing?
We can't let them find
them now, Tito.
Yeah, they'll find 'em for sure
you start shooting.
Get out of here.
Come on, man!
Step out.
One,
two,
three,
four,
five,
six,
seven,
eight,
nine,
ten!
You okay?
Yeah, we're
looking for another one now.
Come on.
Who wants to fight?
You okay for another fight?
Hey, okay,
we need another fighter.
Looking for somebody.
- Look at him. He's tired.
- Who wants to fight?
- He almost lost that one!
- I'm tired.
What the hell is going on?
It's a garage, Tito.
No one thinks otherwise.
All right, I'll get them out.
- Vamanos, vamanos.
- Look, Tito...
we need the money, man.
What, from a bunch of drunks?
I got enough sh*t happening
on the border already, okay?
I don't need this sh*t!
Gente, servicios a la derecha,
agua fresca a la izquierda.
Hey.
Well, well, well.
Still the same old Hector,
fighting in the dirt.
Last time I saw you,
you were fighting
some little runt back in Asuncn.
Things don't change much,
do they?
Yeah, it's funny.
Last time I saw you,
you were a stuck-up little brat.
Maybe things don't change at all.
I remember this.
They were your dad's, right?
Don't touch those, okay?
Why did you come here?
Why does anyone come here?
Who's that?
Nobody.
Well, he's a loud nobody.
Yeah, they usually are.
Joven, medicine.
This is it?
What? They're cheap, okay?
It doesn't always mean
they got them in stock.
Plus, you owe me from last week.
Yeah, I was going to pay
you back with what I won.
And if you lost?
You didn't think of that? No.
You can take it out
of my cut of the side bets.
just with the bruises, right?
You're not using your head.
Come on,
we've got to go now.
Welcome home.
Okay, Maria.
Hector, show her to the room.
Everybody else come with me.
Sgame.
You'll share
your beautiful suite with Lupe.
She mostly works up at the house,
so you'll have
the whole penthouse here to yourself.
This is the kitchen,
toilet's down the hall,
shower's around the corner.
We share them,
so there's no time for pampering.
There's a very modern pay phone
in case you get homesick,
but it cuts people off,
so make the tears quick, all right?
What is your problem?
I ain't got a problem.
Mam.
Hijo.
Dnde fuiste?
I don't like this medicine.
Ma, it will help you breathe.
This helps me to cough.
Yes, that's because
you're not using it right.
Listen...
Mama, listen,
don't go out to the fields
tomorrow, all right?
Please.
No work, no pay.
I will take care of it.
Fighting?
No, hijo, ya no.
with your fists.
Ya no.
Mama, please,
I'll take care of it.
Now you sound like your father.
Who's this?
Ay, no. Dios mo, Maria!
Hola, Seora Villa.
So grown up.
How time flies.
How long has it been?
Nine years.
Nine?
Oh, my, you're so beautiful.
Verdad que esta linda, Hector?
I didn't notice.
What do you mean,
you didn't notice?
Ay, me dices
que tenemos azotes, tu to.
Tell me.
Tell me about yourself,
tell me about your family.
Mam.
Mama, okay, take it easy.
Mama, take it easy now.
Lie down.
It's okay.
We can talk later, Seora Villa.
We'll talk tomorrow.
Take it easy now.
Try to rest a little bit.
- Don't go far.
- No, I'll be here.
She doesn't look that bad.
Yeah, well, she is.
I'm sorry.
You should get some rest, too,
because the first day in the fields
takes it out of you.
What?
Nothing, it's just...
there's something different
about you.
You mean I was
not being a stuck-up little brat?
Yeah, maybe.
Sorry, it's just different.
People change, Hector.
Life happens.
People grow up.
Here
Oh, una mariquita!
They say they're
very good luck for farms
because they eat a lot of the pests.
Maybe I brought some good luck.
Maybe you brought the pests.
Oh, shut up.
Come on, let's go.
But I'm not done yet.
Well, if I waited for you,
we'd be here all day.
Mama, you okay?
That's too heavy, hijo.
No, lleves dos!
Vas a lastimar, Hector.
He's crazy.
I know. Strong,
but like his father, so pig-headed.
Don't hurt yourself.
Not a chance.
Thank you, Hector.
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