"I Carry You With Me"--movie theatre review

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"I Carry You With Me"--currently at the Gateway Theatre in Fort Lauderdale and other 'art' houses throughout the USA--is a slow-moving, methodically, and, dare I say?--educational film-- about Mexican immigrants who come to the USA illegally. It is a subject very rarely shown and/or made by Hollywood movies. Though the subject is constantly in the news with many clashing opinions what do Americans born of American parents, really understand about the problems facing the Mexican who come across the border to make life better for their families? "I Carry" goes into that story revolving around 2 gay males, one from a wealthy background and another from an impoverished background and the father of a young boy. Though the film revolves around them, people of all genders, backgrounds, wants, needs are seen throughout the film. We follow Ivan and Gerardo as young adults, young men, their life today going through their yearnings, interaction with family members, facing harsh discrimination and undercurrents of terror. Ivan comes to the USA with the promise of returning to his young son and possible lover within a year. I don't want to say too much about the film as I want you to discover it as I did. The only problem I had was one I usually find when one person, here Heidi Ewing, does the directing, screenplay and producing and that is the editing, keeping scenes a beat too long, putting in 'artistic' nature shots, etc., making the film seem longer than it is! Be sure to stay for the end credits!