Maria Full of Grace

Maria Full Of Grace is about a Columbian  pregnant teen who becomes a drug mule to make money for her family. She flew to the U.S with sixty-two pellets of cocaine in her stomach, but once she gets to New York things dont go as she has planned.



Maria Full Of Grace is a good movie i really liked it. Its about a girl a girl who lost her job and was in need of a job to help her family. Her family really depended on her to bring in money to the household, so when a friend presented her the offering of becoming a mule she took the job.
     She lied to her family that she got a job working in a big office, so that they wouldnt know what she was really doing. Soon after having  a meeting with Don Fernado she noticed she wasnt the only girl who was going to be a mule. She formed a relationship with a girl named Lucy, her best friend Blanca also decided to become a mule. Everyone was nervous, because you never know when you will bbe caught by the police.
    While on the plane one of Lucy's bags in her stomach end up busting, and she slowly began to die. She died in the hotel, but before the men took her body out they cut her open to take the rest of the drugs out of her stomach. Maria got scared so her and Blanca decided to leave. When they left the hotel they went to a home in New York where Lucy said her sister lived. they stayed there for two days until she found out that they were mules and her sister was dead. Maria decided to call the men  back to givethem their drug so they could get their money so they could go back to Columbia.
     After they got their money, they went to they airport to board he plane but Maria wanted to stay behind in America where she can raise a good life for her child.   

Afghan Star

Afghan Star is about the people in Afghanistan who enter into an talent show where they sing for the country, where the people will vote on who they think is the best. They based the movie on the American show American Idol. They had to do things very traditional or the people will not vote for them. If they dont do right by their country, the people will go against them.

While watching the movie it reminded me alot of the American show American Idol, they went around to neighboring countries to find the best singers. In order to win you had to have the most votes from the people, anything wrong in the peoples eyes they will not vote for you. The movie was very cultural, they did everything under their cultural beliefs.
     The girl that was picked to go to the finals did a beautiful song biut she did a little dance. To the poeple of her home town that was a sign of disrepect. A women in their country isnt suppose to dance, expecially on tv in front of everyone. Many people felt she let her home town down. As people got interview they said she should be killed, she had to live in an other country to stay safe. As the show got to its final three, she got eliminated because of the dance she did on stage, and her people wouldnt support her. When she returned home they had to sheild her so that she wouldnt be killed or harmed.
     When they showed videos of how their country used to be before they all started worshiping the Islamic Nation. The people was able to dress how they pleased and they were able to sing without an hassle. To the people music is accepted, music is all they really have, so for them to have the music contest was good. With nothing to really do the people listened to music. Many wish the country could go back to how i used to be, where everyone was free to do what they liked.
     The man with the long hair was the that won the contest, he got most votes and it made the people happy. The people did make a good choice because he did have a good voice to match what the people were looking for.

Mongolian Ping Pong

       Mongolian Ping Pong is about three boys who set out to return a ball they found. They think they have to go all the way to Beijing to return the ping pong. Its really abut three boys who are very curious to things in life. One soon has to go off to school, which is in the city, where he soon finds out what they do with the ping pong.

       Mongolian Ping pong is about three young boys who finds a ping pong, and they want to return it to Beijing. They think thy have to return the national ball. They set out on a trip to Beijing to return the ball, but soon have to go back home because they tried to cross the dessert with no water to drink. The boys got a ride from a man because their horses wouldn't get them home fast enough.
      When they got home they all got in trouble by their parents. One of the boys had an responsibility to keep the ball, but his mother taks it and smashes. the next day the boys come together to show the other boys what they found but all they got was a smashed ping pong ball.
       Soon it was time for the oldest boy to start school, as he is in school he is walking around the school. He soon finds a room, with all ping pong players. He figures this is where the ping pongs come from.

The Weeping Camel

The Weeping Camel won an award for best documentary. A family helps their camel herd give birth, the mother soon rejects the baby. In which causes the family to call upon an lamas who perform a ritual with bread or dough.
      The family sends their two youngest boy on a journey through the desert to the community marketplace. Which they had to locate a musician for an Mongolian ritual. The ritual happens to bind the mother and her calf back together, in which she begins to weep. I think the camel began to weep because she distanced herself from her child, she just didnt feel a connection to the baby. Plus it was her first calf, so she didnt know how to feel.
   

I think the movie The Weeping Camel is about family. The Family in the movie is main characters, they are all about togetherness. They attempted plenty of times to get the camel to have a connection with its baby, but he just was not connected. The mother sends her two sons out to town to get someone to do a ritual, because without one the camels baby will not be able to make it. With the ritual they hope the camel will come to her senses and accept that she finally has a child that needs to be looked after.
     Throughout the movie they do thins as a family, they sit together and eat. Their clothing are nice and fully designed in details.  There is two huts one where the family lives and one where the grandparents live.  Their homes are generally small but nicely decorated with art. The family and near by families experience a sand storm, they close their huts up very good to prevent the sand from entering their home. After he storm they call on to nature to stop the storm from coming again, and to prevent it from hurting the animals.
   As the movie comes to an end, the ritual happens and the camel finally decides to become a mother to her calf. It made the family happy because the mother the only one that could help that calf. The family couldn't keep feeding it through a bottle. The movie ended on a good ending, the mother finally realizes she does have some one who is counting on her and need her. For them to come together as one was something the family hoped for.