A Cautionary tale for the young.
Main players:
Octavio (Roberto Guillén) Alex (Óscar Sinela) Esperanza (Paola Baldion)
All three are attending a Catholic University. Alex is from a rich well off family. Esperanza's mother owns an Internet cafe that also provides other business services and she helps her mother with it as well. Alex and Esperanza are deeply in love.
Octavio is a friend to Alex and from a story he tells his family was once wealthy in another region and they had their own farm but lost it. Now his mother is struggling to make a living as a dressmaker and he attends the school on scholarship but he is also ashamed of his family and tries to avoid having his mother at school functions.
Octavio is getting behind on schoolwork and he is waiting on his laptop to be repaired and Alex provides a laptop to Octavio to borrow.
Alex and Esperanza run off to a motel to make love and Alex decides he wants to use his cell phone to tape it. Esperanza tells him to stop when she realizes what he is doing and he stops but he later continues again and she didn't stop him and when she tells him to erase it he said he wanted to keep it to look back on when they are old.
Later Alex and Octavio are in a pool hall and they lose to two other people. Octavio complains they lost because Alex was distracted by his cellphone and was too focused on texting his girlfriend. Alex wants to challenge Octavio to a game out of anger with the loser paying for everyone's drinks. Of course Alex wins and Octavio loses and he admits he doesn't have the money to pay but another friend fronts him the money as a debt. Octavio hurt and jealous he takes the cell phone at one point and Alex is too drunk to realize it.
The rest of the movie is somewhat predicable. Once Octavio realizes there is a video on the cellphone he finds it and uses the borrowed laptop to post it on a social media site where a growing number of people see it.
Illustrates the double standard of society; he gets congratulated and she gets shunned and called a whore. Something worst happens to her but I won't give that away.
One thing that bothered me about the movie is that I feel it gives the impression that wealthy people have better morals and ethics than those that are poor. I don't know if that was intentional or just a bias that was exposed by the director or actors.
The photography and sound was excellent otherwise.
Worth watching even if you already know better.
Main players:
Octavio (Roberto Guillén) Alex (Óscar Sinela) Esperanza (Paola Baldion)
All three are attending a Catholic University. Alex is from a rich well off family. Esperanza's mother owns an Internet cafe that also provides other business services and she helps her mother with it as well. Alex and Esperanza are deeply in love.
Octavio is a friend to Alex and from a story he tells his family was once wealthy in another region and they had their own farm but lost it. Now his mother is struggling to make a living as a dressmaker and he attends the school on scholarship but he is also ashamed of his family and tries to avoid having his mother at school functions.
Octavio is getting behind on schoolwork and he is waiting on his laptop to be repaired and Alex provides a laptop to Octavio to borrow.
Alex and Esperanza run off to a motel to make love and Alex decides he wants to use his cell phone to tape it. Esperanza tells him to stop when she realizes what he is doing and he stops but he later continues again and she didn't stop him and when she tells him to erase it he said he wanted to keep it to look back on when they are old.
Later Alex and Octavio are in a pool hall and they lose to two other people. Octavio complains they lost because Alex was distracted by his cellphone and was too focused on texting his girlfriend. Alex wants to challenge Octavio to a game out of anger with the loser paying for everyone's drinks. Of course Alex wins and Octavio loses and he admits he doesn't have the money to pay but another friend fronts him the money as a debt. Octavio hurt and jealous he takes the cell phone at one point and Alex is too drunk to realize it.
The rest of the movie is somewhat predicable. Once Octavio realizes there is a video on the cellphone he finds it and uses the borrowed laptop to post it on a social media site where a growing number of people see it.
Illustrates the double standard of society; he gets congratulated and she gets shunned and called a whore. Something worst happens to her but I won't give that away.
One thing that bothered me about the movie is that I feel it gives the impression that wealthy people have better morals and ethics than those that are poor. I don't know if that was intentional or just a bias that was exposed by the director or actors.
The photography and sound was excellent otherwise.
Worth watching even if you already know better.
