Whats the difference then between a Pans Labyrinth type film and this one?
Perez: Exactly. ‘Pan’s Labyrinth’ to me is a foreign film. It’s not a Latino film. It’s a foreign film. This is how I look at it. Or ‘Y tu mamá también’, something like that. Perez: It’s a foreign film. ‘Amores Perros’ is a foreign film. ‘City of God’ is a foreign film. I feel like if you’re Dominican you live in DR. You’re Puerto Rican when you live in Puerto Rico. You’re Cuban in Cuba. You’re a Spaniard when you’re in Spain. When you come to this country you’re Latino. You’re in a group of Latinos. We should unite as one, right? Now if you’re in Texas and there’s a white man watching you on TV in Texas, it’s like, ‘Yo, check out the Mexicans.’ That’s what he thinks, that all of us as a group are Mexicans. I feel like to them we’re all Mexicans. But we as a group, if you come to the United States you’re a Latino. You’re a part of a group and I feel like that’s the problem. We come here and we still think that we’re Dominicans and we still think we’re Mexicans. But we’re not. We’re Lat
