"A Day Without A Mexican" 20th anniversary

[BigmanPigman]

Films like Network, A Face in the Crowd and The Truman Show always send a chill down my spine when I see how we have progressed as a nation.

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"The Outrageous 20-Year-Old Movie That Predicted Trump’s America
In 2004 ‘A Day Without a Mexican’ was intended to be a political satire. In 2025 it seems all too real."

"Turns out life doesn’t just imitate art — sometimes it borrows the script, reboots it with National Guard checkpoints and streams it live from Los Angeles. Case in point: A Day Without a Mexican, the cheeky 2004 sci-fi satire from Mexican filmmakers Sergio Arau and Yareli Arizmendi, in which California wakes up to find every person of Latino descent has vanished into a mysterious haze, leaving Angelenos panicking over who’s going to mow the lawns and run the kitchens. Two decades later, with ICE patrols chasing down undocumented workers at Home Depots and a real fog of fear spreading through the city, the movie suddenly seems less like farce and more like dark prophecy."
'A Day Without a Mexican' Resonates 20 Years Later https://share.google/yRD53BsrcQmh7OSUd