Throughout the movie, Star Maps, many ideas about family values, machismo among the males, and patriarchy passed on through generations are easily observed. They begin with simple, common, stereotypical ideologies such as having the family eat dinner together, or by having the father stress the fact that he “brings home the bacon”. These ideas later progress into more complicated, as well as disturbing matters. The movie expresses these ideas by having the father hurt women …showed first 75 words of 642 total…

…showed last 75 words of 642 total…had to give up his dreams and make money by selling his body to strangers. It seemed that he idealized his father and for that reason he thinks that what he does is what a “man” is supposed to do. The movie Star Maps tried to display these ideas throughout the film. Although the ideas were a bit extreme and exaggerated, it still let us see some of the problems a Latino family goes through.