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about a movie that I have not seen okay
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called I like that we see different
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movies so Allan you saw a couple films I
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didn't tell me about going Varsity in
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Mariachi what is this movie what is this
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documentary uh it is currently on
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Netflix and I will say that uh the
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reason I brought this up because I saw
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it at the Oak Cliff film festival and
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the reason why that's important is
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because when I saw going Varsity in
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Mariachi at the oakcliff film festival
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uh I then the next day did the Friday
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Live cast with you uh in Dallas uh for
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the uh Infamous chair
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incident so this was the movie I saw
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before it uh but it's essentially it's a
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documentary it follows uh the Journey of
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the Edinboro North High School's Mary AI
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Oro which is uh the mariachi band uh
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competition band that of the high school
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uh we are just back from covid uh and
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the schools along the border in Texas uh
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they all have uh Mariachi teams uh
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Varsity Mariachi teams and this is kind
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of um this is a school that was once
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prominent uh and because of covid the
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band had kind of uh you know taken on a
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new face a lot of newcomers
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and uh it is it features the uh sorry it
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features the uh the the teacher U
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Michael if sorry I'm looking at my hair
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it it Abel aunia is the band director
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and it documents his journey to kind of
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take this brand new band and bring the
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school back to its prominence and uh if
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you like music if you like Mariachi
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music if you have ever been in a school
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band this is a movie that's going to
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resonate with you uh and um you know a
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lot of it there are certain things about
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it that I like and it's just this
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teacher who loves the subject loves his
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students and demands Excellence from his
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students like there's one you know uh
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not knowing a thing about Mar music but
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you have one of the figure characters or
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figure players is the the one with the
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large guitar Paul's going to kill me and
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they had to change that person and it's
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a white kid and uh and you see him
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struggle with not feeling like he's a
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part of it uh also not getting you know
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he can play the instrument but not well
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enough um and uh he starts kind of
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slacking off a little to the point where
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the discipline has to come in and um you
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know it's that story and many others in
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terms of how you pull a band together is
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what I like about this movie uh and so
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it's on Netflix right now and it's it's
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worth it it's a nice small Indie
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documentary so go ahead and check it out
