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How would you translate this from Dutch to English: Ik had zo veel gehoord over _A Day Without A Mexican_ voordat hij werd uitgebracht, maar ik heb nooit de kans gekregen om hem in de bioscoop te zien. Nu ik hem op video heb gezien, begrijp ik waarom hij zo snel uit de bioscopen verdween. Ze kregen een geweldig idee en gingen er niet mee weg. In feite is de film zo weinig ambitieus dat het me achteraf verbaast dat ik hem berhaupt een interessant idee vond. Het is geen geheim dat de immigrantenarbeiders in Californië en zelfs van een groot deel van Amerika de basis vormen van onze economie, en daarom had het zo duidelijk moeten zijn hoe weinig het te maken had met de premisse dat de Mexicanen zouden verdwijnen en alle arme, hulpeloze Amerikanen hun eigen sla en tomaten zouden laten plukken.
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I had heard so much about A Day Without A Mexican before its release, but I never got a chance to watch it in the theaters. Now that I've seen it on video, I get an idea of why it was gone from theaters so fast. They took a great idea and went nowhere with it. In fact, the movie is so unambitious that in retrospect I'm amazed I ever thought it was an interesting idea at all.It is no secret that the immigrant workforce in California and indeed of much of America is the foundation of our economy, which is why it should have been so obvious of how little there was to do with the premise of Mexicans disappearing and leaving all of the poor, helpless Americans to pick their own lettuce and tomatoes. The result that we get is a preachy joke of a mockumentary that takes America's tendency to look down at immigrants and turns it around, augmenting the snobbish tone that this places on Americans so much that it removes any sense of realism from the story and turns it into a schoolyard lecture peppered with stupid jokes and shallow stereotypes.Maybe it's because I live in California, but I like to think that the vast majority of Americans with two brain cells working at the same time already knew everything that this movie had to say.