As Upper-class teenager and Los Angeles native Cher tells her "maid" that she cannot communicate with Jose the gardener because she can't speak a word in "mexican", Lucy, in sudden fury, shouts "I NOT A MEXICAN". Cher's father reminds her that Lucy is from El Salvador. So? asks Cher, "So, it's an entirely different country, to what Cher replies: What does that matter? That's exactly the Point Amy Heckerling is making in her incredibly entertaining comedy: for these character, Los Angeles IS the world, and everything else doesn't matter or is just not real. The social and cultural implications of this scene are greater than you may recognize. It might have ignited the whole screenplay for the Oscar winning CRASH, and many others.
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