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3 | A low-budget independent film released in 2004. |
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5 | Latin Americans mysteriously vanish all over the state of California. The California borders are hidden and obscured with a thick, impenetrable mist. |
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7 | Suddenly the rest of the Californians, even those with animosity toward immigrants, are forced to cope with their absence when they realize how much they relied on them. |
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9 | Mostly PlayedForLaughs, although it doesn't shy away from its own opinion on the matter. |
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14 | * BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Especially for those hostile to immigration and Border Patrol, many people began to find the life without Latino to be more difficult as many of them work in [[KlingonScientistsGetNoRespect menial but necessary works, like fruit harvests and restaurant side works.]] |
15 | * BorderPatrol: The "pink fog" that cuts off the state's communications from the rest of the world, and of course the real life one. |
16 | %% * ChildrenAreInnocent: The child of the anti-immigrant activist. |
17 | %% * DeusExMachina: Type 3. Its established that mass disappearance is possible. [[spoiler: whether or not the leaking faucet was responsible was up to question since the disappearance ended with it being fixed by a handyman.]] |
18 | * HumanInterestStory: the sort of reporting one of our leads was forced to do until she became the apparent Last of Her Kind. |
19 | * [[LastOfHisKind Last of Her Kind]]: people believe there to be exactly ''one'' Mexican in California for most of this film. [[spoiler: Turned out that she was an Armenian adopted by Latino parents.]] |
20 | * LatinoIsBrown: Subverted as many white residents found out that many of their lighter-skinned neighbors are in fact Latinos. |
21 | * NationalStereotypes: Parodied and subverted. The film did show that Mexicans and Latin Americans do live in all walks of life, which ranges from school teachers to reporters, besides menial labor. |
22 | %% * SouthOfTheBorder: Lampshaded. |
23 | * SpaceWhaleAesop: Respect Hispanic immigrants—''all'' of them—or you will find that they are all gone and your state is cut off from everything. |
24 | * WellDoneSonGuy: The vice-governor's attitudes towards undocumented workers is based on his teachings from his father, [[spoiler: which his CharacterDevelopment came with him painting his portrait over as a sign of defiance]]. |
25 | %% * WeWantOurJerkBack: Several groups suffered from this. For instance, what's the Border Patrol to do when the border is gone? |
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