1.30ish a.m., my room.

just watched 'y tu mama tambien' (and your mother too) -- fantastic film about mexico, road-trips, friendship, sex, trust, love, betrayal and beaches! i know how cliched that sounds -- two boys in the summer before starting university, their girlfriends have gone to travel in europe; one (tencho) is from a rich political family, the other (julio) is from a lower/middle class family i think, his mom's a secretary; at a glitzy party thrown by tencho's dad and graced by the president they meet tencho's cousin's wife, luisa, who's from spain; luisa says she's thinking of going to the beach and they start telling her about 'heaven's mouth', a beach they make up; luisa finds out her husband, jano, tencho's cousin, has been cheating on her and calls the boys and says ok i'll come and then they're off! julio and tencho are charolastras. space cowboys. friendships and trips. luisa sleeps with tencho. julio sees them. goes to the swimming pool anyway to wait for tencho. they race underwater as they often do; this time julio wins. he says, you shouldn't have let me win. and then he says, i slept with ana (tencho's girlfriend). charolastras are not supposed to sleep with each other's girls. long night of recrimination. the voiceovers get somewhat too intrusive at times, too narrative, but are mostly very well done, and carry along the wider narrative within which this story is set. the next day luisa fucks julio in the car and tencho stops because he doesn't want to be the chauffeur. it comes out later that tencho's slept with ceci (julio's girlfriend) before. luisa storms off. tencho apologizes on his knees (as he had made julio do so the night before). they catch up with ceci. they take a lucky turning (saba was high -- he's always high -- when he told them about a beach and they didn't know how to get anywhere) and they do come to a beach. a beautiful one. and they meet a fisherman and his family who gives boat tours and stuff around the coast. chuy. (voiceover: chuy won't be able to give boat tours before cos something, i forget what, some government thing; he relocates and tries to find work but several companies prevent him; ends up as a janitor in a hotel and never fishes again.) and the beach is called 'heaven's mouth'. dinner and dancing; more stories come out -- 'truth' -- while they're drinking and we find out that they each have fucked the other's girlfriends several times and julio has slept with tencho's mother. then they go back and have group sex. this is bad story-telling but it's just for my record; it was a nervous and sexy scene. in the morning julio and tencho leave; luisa stays behind. the friendship's broken; luisa dies a month later of cancer as she and only she knew -- so she said she would have left jano anyway; she had always known about his affairs. an amazing story. and very well done. and full of life! and tenderness and --

and of course trust and betrayal. 'yet she / will be / false, ere i come, to two or three'.