‘It’s what’s inside that counts’,
stating the Intel advertisement on airport, justifying so beautifully the end
and theme of this worth witnessing Spanish film. The film is a beautiful debut
of Catalina Sandino Moreno who gave the film the larger perspective. It’s about
seventeen years pregnant Maria supporting her working class Colombian family.
in order to get new job she gets involved in drug mule. She has to fly USA carrying
more than sixty pellets of cocaine in her stomach. Things do not happen as plan
in hostile land where her two partners are adding and worsening her already
troubled choice.
Without much of routine melodrama
and without being too harrowing or dark, the film managed to bring the personal
tension from the moment onwards we see what Maria is supposed to do in drug
trade. It fixes and sets the drama and thrill with equal tension towards it
reaches the end which is beautiful but predictable. That airport check up tension
instantly reminds me about ‘Midnight Express’, but it’s not the film as dark
and harrowing one, rather it draws a sympathetic character driven drama with
illegal trade. Above all the strongest reason to watch the film is Moreno ’s brilliant and
graceful Oscar nominated performance.
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