La Rechazada

La rechazada is an episode of decisiones extremas This movie that aired on mun2 is about a girl who gets bullied in school. The movie begins with a young latina walking to her locker and a group of white kids laughing at her. When she opens it her locker is full of paper and garbage and the other children continue to laugh. Even though the presumably white children are speaking spanish the reason for their anger is because Beatriz is academically successful and a scholarship winner in a private institution. I think this speaks greatly to what Mun2 thinks of Latinas and different from how mainstream portrays them. Then Laura, the lead bullier, continues to say that that is the only way she is able to pay for school and if she can't then she should leave. Camilia who tries to befriend the new girl after this instance also dislikes Laura because her boyfriend left her for Laura. This says about Latino men that they prefer white women. They portray her as dirty and spray lice repellent on her and call her poor, they don't think she is able to afford a cell phone so Laura gets her a prepaid card to call the few friends she may have. Ceci and Cami the girls trying to help her and offer Beatriz drugs to deal with her problems. When she gets fed up with the bullying she threatens to jump on her. this is an example of latino violent behavior. She goes home and complains to her mother who doesn't believer her about the drugs and because of the great school she is in she wants her to stay in no matter what, whether she likes it or not. Whenever her home setting is shown she is in a nice house but it is only her mother that is there. When times get harder she insists on moving in with her dad but her mother reminds her that he rejected her and she drops it. Beatriz has enough of the bullying finally and gets closer friends to evoke revenge on Laura. Laura doesn't like Beatriz being friends with Camilia anymore and agrees to meet them to "chat". Two Latinas getting together worries Laura, the caucasian. The plan is to have Beatriz, under the influence of drugs and witchcraft, to cut Lauras face when they meet at night in the park. Camilia reveals that Beatriz isn't really her friend and says that she if Laura and her parents call the police they will blame Beatriz. They are only in it to continue buying drugs for themselves. Latinos are portrayed as not trustworthy with their friends and dangerous, willing to sell their "friends" or use them for what is beneficial to them. Also they are drug addicts. Beatriz gets extremely drunk and then takes a pill they give her. Instead of a simple cut on the face Beatriz kills her. The other girls threaten to tell on her but she siad they provided the drugs and the weapon for the act so they say they will keep it between them. one of the girls can't handle the pressure and blurts everything out. they all go to jail.