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Hola amigos, buenas vibras para todos.
**Hello friends, good vibes to all.
A few days ago I caught up with one of the series which are revolutionizing everything, The White Lotus, and it is doing so thanks to its very particular plot but especially for its actresses and actors who make life in it. I say this because Aubrey Plaza is one of the protagonists, hence I was amazed with her and I realized that one of the movies that was talked about this year also has her as the protagonist. I confess that I may have seen her only superficially, but after everything I have seen and even more with this role in the film we will talk about today, I can say that she has been one of my great discoveries of the year.
Emily the Criminal is a movie of this year which I knew about it but for different reasons I had never seen it, it didn't call my attention. That changed and yesterday I decided to watch it, the result? - It was good, a super simple plot and without many complications but decent. It's a story which talks about what is the situation, I guess, of many people in the United States and other parts of the world, a life full of debts and what to do in those cases when the whole situation is bigger than oneself. So, let's talk a little about what Emily has to do to be able to keep breathing in this sea of debt in which she is submerged.
Emily Benetto (Aubrey Plaza) is a person to whom life has not treated her very well. She is a young woman who carries on her shoulders a very large student loan debt, we are talking about thousands and thousands of dollars and in order to pay off that responsibility she has to work in places with low pay and zero conditions, basically being exploited in the workplace. The thing is that thanks to things that happened in her past, it seems that she cannot opt for better jobs, so the situation becomes more and more complicated until one day she receives information that may help her to change her luck and why not, her life itself. Everything will depend on the decisions she makes from now on.
It is right here where the film begins to walk and the plot starts to get a little more interesting. Seeing that everything is getting more and more uphill our young girl decides to enter the world of illegality but one where coercion does not exist, everything that happens is only by the desires as I said of the decisions of each person. This may sound like a fairy tale or too beautiful to be true but Emily will soon realize that it is not so, that a series of events will cause things to get complicated and what in principle was a ten-minute task will become a lethal struggle covered with a very obvious and dangerous criminality.
As you noticed the plot is very common, it is one that we can find in hundreds of films out there but this does not prevent the film from being perfectly enjoyable, not boring and even unpredictable. Within the simplicity there is a tension in every step that Emily takes because we know that she is on the loose line, we know that any false step can be the end of her and that is something that is perceived in the scenes where she goes to the limit. All this makes us always have our attention to the maximum, there is no moment where the film drops in intensity because even in the passages where she makes her life outside this criminal network there is some pressure to try to fit in, to pretend that it is not happening in parallel to the search for a decent and well paid job.
It is a film that shows a bit of what real life is like when it comes to getting a job, all the injustices that surround that world and how terrible and unprotected the entire labor system can be. The story tries to justify all this with the fact that Emily ends up doing the wrong thing, that because of the lack of opportunities she has to resort to this dark side of life. Evidently this is not so because there will always be a choice and all the consequences in our lives cannot be the product of something or someone being unfair, everything will depend on how we are able to handle each situation. This Emily may or may not understand.
Aubrey is great here, the whole construction of her character is very good because she is a woman who for all that she has lived through knows how to move through life, she doesn't let anyone walk over her, much less trample on her, no matter who she is. There is a scene here where she is in a job interview that for me is the best in the film, a person with an iron temper but inside she is trembling with fear. She can fall but she will always get up even stronger than before and that is something we will see a lot here. Plaza is a very good actress, in The White Lotus I thought so and with this film I confirmed it, when she is asked for drama she delivers it, when she has to be tougher and action and rudeness is demanded she also delivers it, she is very complete so her character is everything in this plot.
7.5/10. It is a film that I liked a lot, it is entertaining, we do not waste time, we are hooked from the beginning because in the end the illegal will always generate curiosity and because everything is on the rise, that is, a problem is becoming a little bigger and see how Emily seeks to solve them is the attraction of this film. There is drama, action and a bit of suspense of not knowing what is going to happen because of the volatility of things and the other characters. It's an hour and a half long and you can find it on Netflix. I leave the trailer here.
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Bueno mi gente por hoy es todo, espero que les haya gustado! ¡Un abrazo a todos, nos vemos en la próxima!
***Well my people for today is all, I hope you liked it! ¡Hugs to all, see you all in the next one!