Maria Full of Grace
- Document number
- 1621
- Date
- 2004
- Title
- Maria Full of Grace
- Author/publisher
- Joshua Marston
- Availability
- LSI library
- Document type(s)
- Multimedia,
- Keywords
- Colombia, Drug trafficking, Economy in transition, Youth employment, State socialism, Socio-Economic transition, Discrimination, Unemployment, Poverty, Community development, Social security, Social exclusion, Health care, Drugs abuse, Health, HIV/AIDS,
- Summary
- “Maria Full of Grace" tells the tale of an impoverished 17 year old Colombian who becomes pregnant. Along with most of the other able-bodied people in her community, she works a perilous job in a flower plantation. She wants to quit, but her large family depends on her meager salary. One day, Maria meets a smooth-talking young man named Franklin. He offers her a business proposition to make some money and travel. However, the task involves her acting as a drug mule and smuggling heroin into the U.S. An exceptional film imparts a strong sense of been-there-done-that reality as it follows Maria from Bogota to New York where her life begins to unravel. Unusually well managed without being junked up with the usual Hollywood tawdry tinsel and situational extremes, this very human drama does more pound-for-pound than most films many times its size.
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