We had Maria Full of Grace at home for nearly a month. We kept putting off watching it because we were sure it would be intense. It was, but it was also really, really good. It has a happy ending of sorts even. Maria comes through it all more or less okay, although we are left with the kind of open-endedness that wakes you up in the middle of night. (That might just be me.)
Maria is a 17-year-old Colombian girl who, faced with pregnancy and having no job and no other shining goals on the horizon, concedes to become a mule, carrying drugs in her body to the United States. It's a very touching story about the young women and why they make the choice to play this part in the drug trade.
An interesting current event tidbit (more than a tidbit really) that relates to this is the newly launched campaign fronted by the vice president of Colombia Francisco Santos. They hit the international media recently with their ad campaign in Europe. This ad campaign comes from their larger campaign of Shared Responsibiity.
But the main point here is, it is a good movie. We recommend.
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Netflix guilt. We get it all the time. Movies that look good when browsing through the Netflix website (usually have good reviews and are artsy/intense/heralded by "People With Taste"). Once they get to your home, you never quite feel prepared to watch those movies, and usually jump the queue with anything in the fun/light/mindless category. The guilt comes in A.) removing that movie from circulation and B.) wasting your queue velocity.
My name is Doc Mara and I have Netflix guilt!
Nice review, by the way.
Ah, Netflix guilt. Have you seen the Slate piece on viewing friends' queues? Here's one of the author's observations:
"Some lists were tortured records of cultural duty: Dense classics would march solemnly towards the top, only to be demoted (as soon as watching them became a real possibility) and replaced by season three of Felicity, until finally all the most challenging films of the 20th century were pooled at the bottom of the list like dark sediment beneath a froth of romantic comedies." (I Queue: Judging your friends by their Netflix lists, by Sam Anderson, posted Sept. 14, 2006)
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