ABSTRACT
Movies can provide pure entertainment and escape and can also bring our attention to real and important issues. Many documentaries, feature films, and science fiction stories have reflected the reality of the atomic bomb and the nuclear era and their consequences, and are doing the same for genetic science. They use satellite technology to bring home the actuality of building a border wall, show how technology might affect immigration and immigrants, and present a Latina bioscientist who, in reality or in imagination, transforms herself into a creature with greater freedom than she feels in the United States (U. S). The documentary Best of Luck with the Wall gives a visceral sense of what a huge project a border wall would be. The film gives a direct sense of the size and variety of terrain that a wall would have to traverse by means of major feats of engineering.
