(2008 - USA/Argentina) - d. Guillermo Arriaga
Stars Kim Basinger and Charlize Theron.
There are several plots that go on during this film that at the end all come together.
The plot is a story of several different people separated by time and space -- Sylvia, a woman in Oregon who must undertake an emotional odyssey to rid herself of her past; Mariana and Santiago, two teenagers trying to piece together the shattered lives of their parents in a New Mexico border town; Maria, a little girl who goes on a border-crossing voyage to help her parents find redemption, forgiveness, and love; and Gina and Nick, a couple who must deal with an intense and clandestine affair... because they are both married.
Maria is Santiago's daughter. Santiago is a crop duster in a New Mexico town and he has a plane crash. His friend and the daughter go out to find (and stalk) the mother who left when Maria was very young. She works at a restaurant as a manager. One of the other stories is of her at a younger age catching her mother having an affair in a remote trailer (her mother had a masectomy and is not happy about her looks). She puts gas around the trailer and winds up killing both her mother and her lover in a huge explosion. Santiago becomes her love interest and she ends up becoming 'blood brothers' with him by a ritual. Coping with her past is a hard thing for her to do.
Flashbacks tell a story that seems to be taking place at the same time, and then at the end, how the movie comes together and explains all the holes and how the lives of these people are intertwined was very interesting to watch.
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