The trio head to another safe house, where Gloria meets a woman named Isabella. Gloria is reluctant but eventually agrees and is told to get into a car and park it on a corner. Execution-style murder of helpless woman. Director and star Rodriguez wisely keep the focus on Gloria's realistic emotional and intellectual journey, making this a grounded actioner with a female-empowerment heart. Her hometown connections to Tijuana have grown thin over the years, but she continues to visit her close friend Suzu and her son. Surviving will require all of her cunning, inventiveness and strength.
Although the plot to enter the main character into the beauty pageant loses much of its poignancy in the 2019 movie, the remake holds onto the visual motif for a dramatic final showdown in which Rodriguez, in a ballgown, reclaims her independence with bullets. The cast and crew are said to be 95 percent. Finding a power she never knew she had, Gloria plays one organization against the other as she seeks to rescue her friend. Since I have long tired of only seeing Latinos as gun-toting drug runners, I had avoided the original until recently. When Gloria goes to the bathroom, armed gunmen break in through the vents and attempt to kidnap Gloria out of her stall but ultimately give her time to escape while they attack the building.
Pelicula de crimen donde La obsesión de Laura, una joven mexicana, por convertirse en una reina de la belleza la lleva a verse involucrada en las redes del narcotráfico y a trabajar al servicio de una banda que tiene aterrorizado el norte de México. Surviving would require all of her crafty, innovation, and energy. Based on the 2011 Mexican hit film, it centers on Gloria , a smart, courageous Mexican American woman who must work for a cartel boss to find her missing friend. In trying to find out what happens to Suzu, Gloria falls deeper into the cartel world that has ensnared them both. Seven years later, the Mexican film now has a Hollywood remake, one that adds new elements to the story but is less coherent in its message. This is clearly frowned upon in the film but may disturb some viewers. While trying to find her, Gloria catches the eye of crime boss Lino Ismael Cruz Cordova , who shot up the club and has plans for her.
The Chief quickly escapes outside, and Gloria goes to find Suzu. Lino then sends Gloria to the Miss Baja California pageant, where she attempts an escape through the bathroom. Does the film comment on women being treated as objects?. The film also presents a sexual culture that dehumanizes women which the film clearly frowns upon , and there's unwanted groping and sex. You will receive a weekly newsletter full of movie-related tidbits, articles, trailers, even the occasional streamable movie.
On the night the two young women go out to a club, a shooting erupts, separating the two friends in the chaos. Miss Bala 2019 srt Miss Bala 2019. The film stars , , and , and follows a woman who trains to take down a Mexican drug cartel after her friend is kidnapped. Gloria even receives a dose of body-shaming from a female pageant official. Surviving will require all of her cunning, inventiveness and strength. Overview An impoverished young woman by the name of Gloria seeks out a life of glamour outside of the mundanity of her daily life and enters into the Miss Baja beauty pageant, but an unfortunate string of circumstances leaves her as the witness to gang violence. Depiction of rape culture is central to film.
With her brother and father also kidnapped, Laura has little recourse but to comply even as she looks for some desperate opportunity to break free from her new life. Upon crossing the border Gloria is given an arsenal of guns to bring back to Mexico by a gangster named Jimmy, and then told to meet in a large parking lot. The vast majority of sequels are unnecessary, but Zombieland: Double Tap feels particularly so, especially coming out a decade after the original. It was in the United Kingdom on February 8, 2019. However the police show up, and Lino runs to seize Gloria but is shot in the leg, and Gloria helps him to safety. The movie is based on the 2011 Mexican hit. Lino is also the best embodiment of how complicated representation can be for Mexicans or Mexican Americans.
In July 2017, , Cristina Rodlo, and joined the cast of the film. The film's subject matter and violence won't be for everyone, but Miss Bala is effective and absorbing. The gang take her to their headquarters, where Lino, the boss, agrees to help her find her friend if she agrees to work for them. When the pair go to a local night club, Suzu wants to impress to help her chances in a beauty competition she has entered. As a Mexican who lived in America like Gloria, his character absolves the movie from portraying all Mexicans as bad or corrupt. It was released at a time before cartel violence would reach its fever pitch, or at least, before many Americans knew about its escalation. Gloria is forced to shoot the Chief in the leg after he tries to hold Suzu hostage, but then Lino kills him.
Hardwicke keeps the story moving with an understated, gritty style, making viewers feel as trapped on the ride as Gloria is. Unknowingly, she puts it in Isabella's phone, who is killed by Lino for being a suspected mole. Is this a feminist film? In the room with the Chief, she writes on a postcard that Lino is going to kill him. Lino wants to kill The Mexican Chief of Police, so he sends Gloria to the pageant and bribes the judges so that she will win since it's rumored the Chief sleeps with every winner. Gloria goes to the after party, where she agrees to meet the Chief in another bedroom and soon finds Suzu, telling her that everything will be okay.
But Gloria keeps her head, making her courage all the more believable. The director depicts a lethal subculture in which women are utterly objectified, from the beauty pageant to actual human trafficking. If so, what is it saying? The next morning, Gloria is unable to get contact from Suzu and decides to ride with a police officer to try to find her. However then Suzu out of the blue disappears at a nightclub. And it all starts with her irresistible friend chemistry with Rodlo.
There are plenty of white-knuckle moments, and Rodriguez lets viewers experience them all with her without going over the top. Finding a power she never knew she had, Gloria plays one organization against the other as she seeks to rescue her friend. As the genuinely scary Lino, Cordova makes such a strong impression that it's tempting to call him a find -- but then you realize he's been around for a while. However, his character also plays into current anti-Latino rhetoric that undocumented immigrants are dangerous or capable of heinous crimes. Gloria, her friend, and her friend's family are also Mexican or of Mexican descent. At a nightclub, Gloria survives a shoot-out but loses sight of Suzu.