{"id":149865,"date":"2021-02-19T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-19T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/?p=149865"},"modified":"2021-02-16T17:24:49","modified_gmt":"2021-02-16T23:24:49","slug":"ya-no-estoy-aqui-important-film-about-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/ya-no-estoy-aqui-important-film-about-mexico\/","title":{"rendered":"Here’s Why “Ya No Estoy Aqu\u00ed” Is an Important Film About Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Ya No Estoy Aqu\u00ed<\/em> offers an honest look into an unknown part of Mexico, exploring the impact of culture on identity and the Mexican diaspora. <\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In Ya No Estoy Aqu\u00ed<\/a><\/em>, or I\u2019m No Longer Here<\/em> for the English-speaking audience, the film follows Ulises\u2019 journey from Monterrey to New York and back again to his hometown. It\u2019s the story of an immigrant fleeing the country due to violence, only to find themselves living in a strange, sometimes hostile, environment. It\u2019s a story that many Latinxs have either experienced first-hand or heard second-hand. Though the film uses tropes popular in media about Mexico\u2014cartel violence, extreme poverty, being undocumented\u2014it\u2019s much more nuanced, exploring the complexities of living in Mexico\u2019s poverty-stricken borderlands, the ties between culture and identity, and the diaspora of Mexicans and Mexican-Americans in the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I highly recommend watching the film before continuing, as there are spoilers throughout, but a brief summary follows. Ulises and his friends form a group called Los Terkos<\/em>\u2014terko<\/em> is slang for terco<\/em>, meaning stubborn, i.e., The Stubborn Ones\u2014and their identity revolves around the Kolombia <\/em>counterculture movement that was popular in that part of Mexico in the mid- to late-2000s. In the Kolombian<\/em> movement, they dance to remixed versions of Colombian Cumbia<\/em> songs called Cumbias Rebajadas<\/em>, or slowed-down cumbias<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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