http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biutiful

I picked up the above movie in the Red box in Seven-Eleven.

I saw this movie last night. It was really beautiful. It is a Spanish movie with English subtitles, but the message comes across clear and strong. It is about a father struggling in the underworld of Barcelona, Spain. The acting of the lead actor is superb. It shows the struggle of immigrants. The father in this movie, he is kind of like a middle man (dalal contractor) making money by finding work for these immigrants.

One thing that I as a Nepali immigrant forget, liviing in America is how good we have it compared to Nepalese and other immigrants in other parts of the world, including many countries Europe. This movie is like a documentary. It is so sad how immigrants come to developed nations and struggle to survive in all kinds of squalor. Doing whatever it takes to survive, working all kinds of dangerous, dirty, drug-related, disasterous jobs. Getting hurt and having no protection, no one to go to. Surviving by hook and crook.
We do what we need to to survive, thinking that people back home have it a lot worse. This movie captures all this. Of how immigrants get used and abused.

It made me grateful for the life I have in America as an immigrant. Sometimes I forget how good I have it.