If only there were one redemption in this film, it would have made a better story. Every villager uses those few short hours from 3pm on Easter Friday to 6am Easter Sunday to commit at least one mortal sin under the guise that Christ/God can't see what is going on.
If only the filmmaker had offered some respite.. one good person... one soul where we could "hang our hat" and empathize.
Or... why not incorporate some Magical Realism to make this story a real fable and less a documentary on reasons NOT to go to Peru?
IMHO the film needed something more -- it felt incomplete. For example, why was the girl named Made In USA? What does the USA have to do with this? The structure is great -- the truck ride in and out... the moment of denouement when Madeinusa chimes in with her sister to denounce the Gringo is perfect... but in the end, I left the film unfulfilled and put off by a new and ugly window on Peru. Surely that is not what she wanted.
I give this film a five because I want to encourage South American filmmakers and there are some good things going on, but ultimately, not enough to raise this above average.
If only the filmmaker had offered some respite.. one good person... one soul where we could "hang our hat" and empathize.
Or... why not incorporate some Magical Realism to make this story a real fable and less a documentary on reasons NOT to go to Peru?
IMHO the film needed something more -- it felt incomplete. For example, why was the girl named Made In USA? What does the USA have to do with this? The structure is great -- the truck ride in and out... the moment of denouement when Madeinusa chimes in with her sister to denounce the Gringo is perfect... but in the end, I left the film unfulfilled and put off by a new and ugly window on Peru. Surely that is not what she wanted.
I give this film a five because I want to encourage South American filmmakers and there are some good things going on, but ultimately, not enough to raise this above average.