The small and humble film A BETTER LIFE concerns a good man, who happens to be an illegal immigrant, working exhausting hours as a day laborer so his teenage son can relocate to a better neighborhood and school.
We empathize with these souls as we follow them into a world, invisible to most, of people living in fear of deportation. The movie lacks a political agenda, merely aiming to show life as it really is on such margins of society. Told in a straightforward and unsentimental style, LIFE centers itself as much around our country's undocumented residents as the tender father-son relationship that brings us to such unknown territory. It's the first film featuring an almost entirely Hispanic cast that I can recall seeing since 2007's UNDER THE SAME MOON, and it’s significantly better (although in all fairness, they're very different stories).
Carlos Galindo (Demián Bichir) is a gardener whose retiring boss Blasco offers to sell him a step toward autonomy: his pickup truck. After borrowing money from his sister Anita, a nurse, mother, and now citizen by marriage, he purchases the vehicle and takes on Blasco's route through the splendor and luxury of Malibu and West LA's estates.
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