万福玛丽亚

故事讲述了哥伦比亚的小镇女孩玛丽亚为了寻求生活的改变去美国走私毒品，她的朋友因为体内的毒丸破裂而死亡，玛丽亚帮朋友料理后事后留在了美国。

哥伦比亚的毒品问题从来都不是犯罪那么简单，从最早的战争利益驱使而遗留下来，对某些人而言毒枭甚至是反美的英雄，也是很多穷苦的哥伦比亚人的谋生方式。

玛丽亚的故事对哥伦比亚或者说对整个银三角地区以及墨西哥都是社会中的常见的现象。

从电影的角度而言，故事没什么问题，规规矩矩的讲完，就是一部带着地域色彩的现实题材电影。

其表达的是在那样的社会之下，哥伦比亚的底层人想要获得机会，离开这样的生活。

演员表演真实自然。

在看B超时露出像孩子一样天真甜美的笑容让我动容。

而此之前都是沉重压抑，小小年纪就已沉稳世故。

片子是对现实生活的直接陈述，没有站在道德的任何一面，每个人都有生存下去的理由，做着自己的选择。

当人生活在不堪的最底层时，就很难有所谓正确的道德上的价值观。

如果这部片子早几年看到，恐怕我是不会接受，觉得太过黑暗；而现在心智成熟可以接受到，不对别人做批判，但你可以，可以做出自己的选择。

一部好片.平实地叙事,并不故弄玄虚地制造什么戏剧化的冲突.而真实本身,已足够有力.想起那部<醉马时刻>.都是这样的真实的力量.选择.要么在哥伦比亚的脏乱差环境和工头的非人待遇中辛苦劳作蹉跎一生,要么用自己的生命去赌一把,做一次运输毒品的骡子,换得一些钱财,甚或另一种生活.会怎样选择?该怎样选择?如果换做是我?这样注定的一生中陡然出现的转机,我会放弃吗?真的很难抉择.天色向晚,山路未明.远远闪动的一点光亮,是否温暖所在?或者,即使没有温暖,是否会比此刻更糟?鬼火?而剧中哥伦比亚工厂和街头的熟悉场景,与中国是多么的相像?甚么叫"担心将要拉美化",其实早已是事实了...剧中的女孩,和那个死去女孩的姐姐,也都终是选择了在美国留下来.因为,有希望...2006-11

也许你有时会这样设想，设想一个生存的绝境，没有父母，没有家庭，甚至没有可靠的朋友，一个人，两手空空，在漩涡一样的街道上走着，等待被吸入或者被粉碎。

事实上我常常这样做。

难道悲剧不令人激动人心吗？

难道游离不正是心灵的常态吗？

影片的最后，黑色的少女玛丽亚没有回黑色的哥伦比亚，她留在了黑色的美国。

走私毒品的少女玛丽亚，死去的露西，雄纠纠争辩的胖朋友。

真实到没有奇迹出现的电影，第三世界的脆弱心灵，美国美国。

听胎儿心跳的玛丽亚，圣母玛丽亚，我们喊你的名字。

喊你黑色的眼眸。

真实 让人唏嘘的真实！

哥伦比亚自然舒适却发展落后的小乡村美国纽约纸醉金迷充满机会的大都市两个地方我恰巧都去过 生活过由于工作的特殊原因 电影里的女孩的故事 我深有感触为她们感到伤痛 唏嘘这样的哥伦比亚女孩子也许曾经于我就近在咫尺 也许曾经我们还打过招呼 交谈过一起喝过cafe con leche 一起逛过feria de Flores也许现在我还和她们中的某一个 因为我的工作有着某种联系青春漂亮得让人动容的哥伦比亚女孩 Maria和Lucy 如同我在哥伦比亚见到的数不胜数的拉丁美女一样有着让世界其他国家大部分女人艳羡的美貌却过着难以改变 世代延续的清贫孤寂的生活我看过不少哥伦比亚电影包括中国能看到的 和只在本地放映的 无一不为它们的真实所感动没有超人怪兽 没有特级打斗 没有飙车 没有打不死的侠客大部分的精力用在讲故事善于讲故事 是哥伦比亚电影最大的优点哥伦比亚温暖和煦的阳光美景或炙热或悠扬的拉丁音乐真实 舒缓 动情地在讲给世界一个个故事讲给世界一个真实的哥伦比亚讲述真人的真心 真爱 真性情勾起我对哥伦比亚那个我曾经生活过的遥远国都无尽的思念和深情

影片讲述了一个哥伦比亚少女为了生活，用体内藏毒的方式，贩卖毒品到美国的故事。

说实话，女主角长得还是不错的，不但找了个丑男兼穷男当男朋友，被搞大了肚子也不让对方负责，一开始还默默的在一家鲜花包装厂累死累活的当操作工。

哥伦比亚的女孩真是纯朴啊，外貌条件这么好，在中国的话要么就傍上大款要么早就找个家里有钱的就嫁了。

不多说了，再多说河螃蟹该来了，打住。

This is the harrowing story of a (not quite) typical mule: Maria Alvarez (Moreno), an intelligent and fiercely independent 17-year-old girl from Colombia who agrees to smuggle a half-kilo of heroin into the United States.Walking out of the theatre, I found myself at a loss of words.What struck me the most about the story was how un-exaggerate everything was. Let it be Maria’s job, her village, or her family. They were portrayed with moderation and care. The result was impressively real and honest. Maria’s job was not uncommon for a third world country’s village girl of 17. I’ve read far worse treatment and horror stories of factory workers in ShenZheng, China. The real evil was in the lack of a choice. All Maria had was the job in the flower factory. It was the only economic opportunity presented to Maria. It was what her family, even her entire village depended on. Sounds familiar? I thought of that British mining town in Billy Elliot.Like all country girls who rebelled against their fate, Maria made a choice, the same choice all country girls in her shoes made, to go to the city. On her way, she was tempted away from the possibility of becoming a rich family’s maid; instead, she was offered an adventure. Traveling, America, and American dollars added together proven to be too big a temptation to turn down for a rebellious country girl. Was there really a huge difference for her, between pulling thorns off roses and swallowing cocaine pellets and carried them to America? Both were rich people’s merchandises, both were beyond her reach. She was one little link in the economy chain. The latter sounded a lot more exciting than the former, and it would take her beyond the depressing village outside of Bogota. She was, finally, presented a choice.The subsequent story made me admire Maria’s intelligence and coolness. But it also chilled me to the bone to see how cruel and brutal the drug world was (is).Would legalizing drugs clean up all these brutality? Would legalizing drugs prevent Maria and her fellow Columbian women from participating in this dark and ugly trade?If so, then why wouldn’t any country take that step?“Because drugs are evil and hurt people who use them. How could you legalize something so damaging to our very selves? How could any government give out any signal that drug abuse is ‘legal’, therefore, ‘ok’?”Because not legalizing it made it worse? Because the huge profit margin is driving the drug trade into a frenzy, and it is killing poor people like Maria left and right? Cigarette is legal, isn’t it? It is harmful to people’s health, too. Why is that okay to endorse but not drugs? Since when human being became such innocent creatures?“If you legalize drugs, then more people will become drug addicts. That would be disastrous and self-destructive.”Okay. People have self-destructive tendencies. There are evils in these world, too many. People always have the choice of whether to become drug addicts, just like people have the choice of whether to smoke a cigarette. Are you saying that government has the right to make the choice for its citizens that the government knows what is best? What about education? What about the fittest survive? It is not like I don’t get drug offered when I walk down Telegraph Ave. in Berkeley, it is not like high school kids don’t get drug offers in parties, at playground, on their way to school, anyways. It is happening right now. How much worse could it get? Besides, once it became legal, it could take away the “adventurous lure” it has right now to the rebellious type. Couldn’t it?Drug abuse is part of modern societies already. We have to deal with it. But if legalizing it could take away the huge profit for the drug lord, then it could reduce their incentive to produce them. It could dry up so many money sources for terrorist groups and anti-government organizations. It could save Maria and girls like her the fate of dying on ruptured cocaine pellets that they carry in their stomach. It could save them from being treated like animals (”mule”), whose stomach was cut open so their cargo could be retrieved. Mule’s life was of no consequence. The dehumanization of Maria and her fellow mules was not caused by drug’s own evil-ness directly. It was made possible by the huge profit of drug trade, and its huge profit came from their illegal status. It was made possible because of human being’s own greed.If government wants to do good to the society, then it could place the choice into everyone’s own hand. Take away the possibility to make people even more greedy than they already are. Don’t tempt them. Trust them.In Chinese modern history, there was a much revered national hero, General Lin Zexu. Who initiate the fight against the British in 1840’s. He burned all the opium he could gather in a huge public display. His angry words are still recited in today’s Chinese elementary school classrooms, “Opium is evil, it weakened our people, our soldier, our country…” But the fact was, Chinese society was weakened from inside before opium even appeared. The closed society has been quietly rotten away from top to bottom for centuries. There was little outlet for real talent of the society. There wasn’t much progress happeneing for the society as a whole. Corruptions were prevalent. Opium provided an escape. A dying plant happened upon a killer disease. It was easy to blame the disease. Even though General Lin Zexu won his opium war, the final treaty between the British and the Qin Dynasty turned out to be the first of many humiliating treaties to come in China’s Modern History. Burning Opium didn’t help General Lin’s cause. Burning the entire country might. That was exactly what Chairman Mao tried over a century later.There is a little analogy in gardening. When a flower attracted diseases, it was often because the plant itself was weak and unhealthy, either from lack of water, light, or too much water, etcetera. To prevent disease from happening, you either make the plant strong and healthy, or you try to shut down all disease sources. The latter has proven to be a harder path. Shutting down flow of air would usually cause more problems to the plant. Exposing the plant to the natural elements was usually more healthy for the plant. As long as the plant was healthy, often it could fight off many diseases using its own strength.

《万福玛丽亚》以其冷静克制的风格呈现、内核却是世界性苦难的问题、与金基德残酷外部世界《撒玛利亚的女孩》相比较、影片中的美丽女主角表现出来的沉稳、独立、隐忍、富有同情心等美好品格隐喻着宗教类型的化身，但现实中用身体去贩毒携带出境，用青春的生命去铤而走险，内心萌芽实施的这种恶的走向，人性总是充满着矛盾，电影也真切地表达了这种双重性。

第三世界国家向往的＂美国梦＂，往往就是一场豪赌，生命的赌注新闻报道中整船、整车厢、偷渡窒息死亡的案例世界为之震惊，但还是有人不断地叩响达闯这道鬼门关，《万福玛丽亚》中也是用这样的主题揭露这种丑恶的交易，影片没有用太多残酷的画面来表达，而是通过玛丽亚的经历和内心变化来影射。

导演乔舒亚.马斯顿以拍摄美剧作品而著称：《新闻编辑室》、《扪心问诊》第一季、《柏林情报站》第一季、《傲骨贤妻》第五季、《六尺之下》第五季等都让人津津乐道，电影《骨肉之躯》、《万福玛丽亚》也是他的代表作品。

片名如果直译的话叫做＂恩典满溢的玛丽亚＂，译为《万福玛丽亚》很贴切了一点也没问题，宗教完美化身的玛丽亚与影片中玛丽亚的运气与善良有着点滴相伴，罪孽中的悔意和怀孕检查中对新生命的希望喜悦，在返回故乡机场的入口处毅然地回头留下来，《万福玛丽亚》导演应该也是在祝福剧中人物和现实世界类似的人物，隐隐感动的同情心，饰演玛丽亚的卡塔琳娜.莫雷诺演技自然有深度、同样也楚楚动人。

讲述的是一个哥伦比亚女孩玛利亚用身体贩毒（吞下一包包的毒品）的故事。

影片的宣传语是Based on 1000 true stroies. 成千上万象Maria一样的女孩冒着死亡的危险走踏上了飞往美利坚的航班，只是为了改变自己的命运，等待她们的是什么？

他们不知道。

影片中Maria是一个当出生在哥伦比亚小村庄的17岁女孩，不甘于简单重复的工作和糟糕的环境，一次偶然的机会让她结识了毒贩子富兰克林，她的生活即将发生改变。

影片中Maria问已经“去过”两次纽约的Lucy， 美国怎么样？

Lucy无不向往的说那里很美很整洁……，或许就是这样一句话促使Maria下定了决心，踏上了这条生死未卜的道路。

Maria身怀六甲，“带着”62袋海洛因来到美国，经历种种磨难，终于换回了那本该属于她的钱，当她准备踏上回家之路的时候，又是Lucy姐姐卡拉的一番话，最终让Maria决定不在回去，因为卡拉告诉她，这里总是充满着希望总是有那样这样的机会，为了孩子当初的她决定留下，不管多难。

或许这就是影片想要让观众思考的“题目”，是什么吸引了成千上万和Maria一样的女孩走上这样的“旅途”，又是什么让她们留下。

想起了Seven（七宗罪）里，老干探的独白：“海明威说：这个世界如此美好，值得人们为它奋斗。

我只同意后半句。

” （Earnest Hemingway once wrote, "The world is a fine place and worth fighting for." I believe the second part. ）

人生陷入困境是常事，在《万福玛丽亚》中，我们看不见哥伦比亚浓郁的民族风情，听不见那大海温柔的叹息，唯一得知 便是生活在那种穷困环境中的人们。

《万福玛丽亚》是导演乔舒华·玛斯顿的电影处女作，有过拍摄连续剧《法律与秩序》的经验，《万福玛丽亚》这样的电影也自然是驾轻就熟。

平实流畅的叙事，客观冷静的记录，将每一位观众都引入一个罪恶的魔窟之中。

当一个十七岁的小女孩怀着身孕决定运送毒品补贴家用的时候，那种感觉就好像是上帝死了。

生活大概远比电影要残酷。

每次看欣赏第三世界国家电影的时候总要做一番挣扎，在这些国家中，有很多你想象不到的真实故事在上演，大多数故事都是关于绝望和死亡的。

导演在《万福玛丽亚》这部电影中，并没有刻意去强调环境的艰苦，而是通过人物的生活，以及他们的对话和行为来展现哥伦比亚底层百姓的情困潦倒。

在电影中，玛丽亚一方面受到残忍毒枭的欺压，另一方面受到美国海关警察的冷库对待，对于十七岁的女孩来说，这样的世界，除了残酷，没有更多的形容。

女主角玛丽亚的视角和经历是整部电影的主线，观众只能跟随着玛丽亚来了解那个残酷的世界。

从叙述手法上看，乔舒华·玛斯顿并没有可以的炫耀自己的拍摄技巧，反而用一种最真实简单的方式来讲述这个故事，平铺直叙，运用剧情本身的张力来推动电影的继续，用演员的真实情感来充实整部电影。

值得一提的是，这部电影最大的特色就是配乐。

以往，人们在看电影的时候，配乐会成为烘托情绪的一种手段，而在本片中，所有的情绪和张力依靠的都是电影本身的剧情。

十七岁少女的人生挣扎是绝望和悲伤。

在任何一个国家，穷苦的人们想要出人头地，唯一能依靠的就是自己。

十七岁的玛丽亚不仅要撑起家庭的经济负担，还要尽量帮助姐姐来养活她的孩子。

面对这样的困境，玛丽亚投射出来的是一种不符合年龄的坚韧。

虽然导演一直将镜头放在玛丽亚身上，但是，纵观全篇，导演依然将哥伦比亚这个国家中的人民，为了生存而需要担负的代价表现的淋漓尽致。

在遥远的第三世界国家，玛丽亚这样的任务比比皆是，年轻气盛的性格和低三下四的工作处境相互冲击着。

他们拼尽全力想要得到自己渴望的成功。

导演在本片中并没有过分夸大哥伦比亚的经济问题和民生问题，而是用写实的手法，旁敲侧击的让观众了解到哥伦比亚的绝望和悲伤。

整部电影除了玛丽亚的选择和坚持之外，更重要的问题则是所谓的美国梦。

在美国式资本主义商业机器的压榨中，他们都认为美国便是掘金圣地。

当他们冒着危险来到美国的时候，得到的是冷漠的海关，怀疑的态度。

哥伦比亚的毒枭将她们作为运送毒品的工具，而美国司法机构却将她们视为危险的所在，到最后，她们拥有的只是被人宰割和永无止尽的折磨。