La Cocina

A cinematic dissection of America when it comes to their ideologies on immigration, employment, the lies of the so called “American Dream” and especially on the dependency of working your life away just to keep a roof over your head or to keep your visa. This film shines on all the technical standpoints through its long takes and its ability to switch up the colour grading and aspect ratio to fit any and every scene like a glove. The ending is what sealed it for me because of how it used the colour green to symbolise not only a more hopeful future but to also symbolise the illustrious green card that every immigrant yearns to gain possession of, no matter how much they have to lose both mentally and physically to gain it.