I had no expectations for this movie, but it still fails miserably.
The main theme of the film is controversial for me, since I experienced a situation, very uncomfortable and traumatic for me, related to this theme, but even so I dared to see it and from the first minutes I got very angry. The subject is very poorly presented, in fact the film does not even talk about 'Las Vocales', it talks more about motherhood and the competition that certain mothers may have in certain schools, from there we started badly, then we continued with the development of the story, which is completely null since there is never a reason why the characters act that way or why they change their way of being so suddenly, which leads us to their acting so selfish without a reason for that, causing that we don't empathize with them or understand anything that is happening, all the situations made me angry, because, despite the fact that they may be similar to reality, there is no development that can make us understand the characters, even in reality these situations have an explanation. I never understood why the main character was so submissive and so manipulable to become such a selfish person that she stopped caring what happened to her own son, just like I didn't understood the antagonist character, although it can be quite obvious understand her way of being, the script never goes into this, making each character completely flat and without much form. Also several scenes look like a copy of the movie 'Bad Moms' although nothing is ever developed in it or you completely understand something. I was about to give it a rating of 1, but at the end there is an important message about motherhood that is not perfect, and about not giving importance to what other people have to say about your life, even if it seems that the characters have not learned anything in the end, but that message seemed important and remarkable to me, as did Gabriela de la Garza's performance, who is the only one who gives a good performance and whose commitment to this project is noticeable. The technical aspects suck, the music is terrible, the same song over and over again, the same notes every time, the photography is very bad, there are too many blurs and very simple shots, the lighting is well controlled outdoors but it is very flat, the performances of all, except the actress that I mentioned earlier, are terrible, very exaggerated or null in terms of expressing emotions, and of course with such a disgusting script, the forced romance could not be missing, and the endless conveniences in the plot.
It's a movie to totally avoid, it doesn't teach anything, it has a horrible story and characters learn absolutely nothing during the whole movie, its very moving message is the only thing that keeps me away from giving it 1 star.
The main theme of the film is controversial for me, since I experienced a situation, very uncomfortable and traumatic for me, related to this theme, but even so I dared to see it and from the first minutes I got very angry. The subject is very poorly presented, in fact the film does not even talk about 'Las Vocales', it talks more about motherhood and the competition that certain mothers may have in certain schools, from there we started badly, then we continued with the development of the story, which is completely null since there is never a reason why the characters act that way or why they change their way of being so suddenly, which leads us to their acting so selfish without a reason for that, causing that we don't empathize with them or understand anything that is happening, all the situations made me angry, because, despite the fact that they may be similar to reality, there is no development that can make us understand the characters, even in reality these situations have an explanation. I never understood why the main character was so submissive and so manipulable to become such a selfish person that she stopped caring what happened to her own son, just like I didn't understood the antagonist character, although it can be quite obvious understand her way of being, the script never goes into this, making each character completely flat and without much form. Also several scenes look like a copy of the movie 'Bad Moms' although nothing is ever developed in it or you completely understand something. I was about to give it a rating of 1, but at the end there is an important message about motherhood that is not perfect, and about not giving importance to what other people have to say about your life, even if it seems that the characters have not learned anything in the end, but that message seemed important and remarkable to me, as did Gabriela de la Garza's performance, who is the only one who gives a good performance and whose commitment to this project is noticeable. The technical aspects suck, the music is terrible, the same song over and over again, the same notes every time, the photography is very bad, there are too many blurs and very simple shots, the lighting is well controlled outdoors but it is very flat, the performances of all, except the actress that I mentioned earlier, are terrible, very exaggerated or null in terms of expressing emotions, and of course with such a disgusting script, the forced romance could not be missing, and the endless conveniences in the plot.
It's a movie to totally avoid, it doesn't teach anything, it has a horrible story and characters learn absolutely nothing during the whole movie, its very moving message is the only thing that keeps me away from giving it 1 star.