Maria Full of Grace

I thought that this movie was all right. It was a lot better than that first movie that we watched. I do not even know if that should even be considered a movie, but I guess it is. I guess it could be considered a documentary. However, Maria Full of Grace was not a bad movie. Out of all the wonderful movies that you could have chose you chose this one? To add to this, the movie was in Spanish, and we had to read English subtitles the whole time. If it was in English, then I am sure that the movie would have been more enjoyable. I guess I should just be happy that we could even have the privilege of watching a movie. Thanks James. I really did not see any religious symbolism in this movie until you mentioned it at the end of class and people started pointing out different things. You said that there were crosses “everywhere” in the movie, but I really do not remember seeing one. There may have been one on the necklace that Maria was wearing, if she even was wearing a necklace. If I am not told to look for something like symbolism in a movie, then I probably am not going to notice it too much unless it is very obvious. When I watch a movie, I am expecting to be entertained. I am not trying to think that hard and that deeply into the movie to try and find something that is not obvious, especially if the movie does not really ask or want you to figure something out (with them stating it pretty explicitly in the movie). Some movies do have a pretty obvious (religious) undertone/symbolism in it, but this movie’s symbolism just was not that obvious to me. I do see how this movie does has some religious symbolism in it because of how the main character’s name is Mary and she is pregnant. This is just how Mary in the Bible was pregnant with Jesus. That is about the only way in which this movie was religiously symbolic (that I can think of). That guy does look familiar. I believe (and am pretty sure) that that is the guy that worked in that building and sat at a desk. He was the guy that tried to help Maria and Blanca find a job. It is pretty neat how this guy does what he did in the movie in real life. I think that what he does is very good. He tries to make sure that the drug mules that die receive a proper burial. I think that it is pretty sad how his mom died, but at least she was doing a good deed when she died and not smuggling over some drugs. I really do not find anything rug with people being drug mules. People are going to find illegal drugs one way or another. So, I think that they might as well be able to bring the drugs over. I do not think that it was right in the movie how the police officer, at the airport, stopped Maria just because he thought that she might be a drug mule. There really was not any sufficient evidence that would prove that she was a drug mule by just looking at her. Those are my thoughts on this movie.