Maria Full Of Grace Analysis

The film “ Maria Full of Grace” demonstrated in a way, a harsh truth of what teenagers from third world countries go thru due to necessity. Maria a 17 year old girl thats in Colombia where is known to be one of the leading countries besides Mexico to export drugs around the world. She lives with her mother, grandmother, sister and nephew. Maria was the only one working in her house and was anchorage of all the bills including her nephews medical bills. Those issues weren't Maria's only worries, she was pregnant of her boyfriend Juan whom later on discovers there was no love between them and decides to leave him. The film begins with her working in a factory packing flowers standing all the time for long hours as well dealing with her pregnancy
symptoms which led her to quite her job. On her way to Bogota where she planned to look for a job thru a friend ,she come across a guy she had met in a party. Maria explain she was on her way to look for a job she desperately needed. He introduce her to Javier a drug lord that needed willing people to be his drug mules to take his merchandise to New York. Maria thought about it very well and took the offer she took taking numerous wrapped pallets filled with cocaine. Other then her family, Maria’s greatest burden was finding a way to race her child alone. On her way to New York Maria notice she wasn't the only one working for Javier there was 3 other girl including her Best friend Blanca whom Maria tried to talk her out of doing this for her own safety. Landing in New York only 3 made it one got caught by law informant.