High: Confessions of an Ibiza Drug Mule

I think this is great that this individual decided to tell her story on how she became involved in becoming an Ibiza Drug Mule and imprisoned in a Peru prison. Maybe it will help others to understand how easy it is to fall into a trap. I actually know someone (in this case a guy) that fell into a Mexican trap in the 70s and ended up in a Mexican prison for 7 years while on vacation for something he shouldn't have and this is more common and easy to happen than you think. Once in those places it is nearly impossible to get out. She was amazing how she was able to improve herself in the prison on her own to get released early. The trap is falling for the guy that recruited her in the first place - they always recruit someone innocent and the girl always falls for him and trusts anything he says. That is mistake #1. Sure she makes bad decisions but she was an easily manipulated subject.

A typical illiterate young girl ,dime a dozen ,who has a really hard time not including "kind of" in every single sentence ,who uses " youS" ,who has no idea where Lima is or even Peru. She belongs to this generation of irresponsible people and her involvement in this and her pregnancy attest to that . It is really a shame that such people can be released from prison after such a short time ,to go on destroying other people's lives . Such people who have absolutely nothing to offer to themselves or society should be made to rot in prison so that they will not be the reason for the deaths of young people.

I will have to play that card. I am sorry. Upon learning that the narrator is the actual lucky perpetrator, it was extremely difficult not to wonder whether a person of color would have had the same luck in that same position. I guess not, considering that millions of them serve much longer prison sentences than Michaella, just for having been caught messing around with 'the wrong cigarette". How clearly privileged we are. When it comes to us it all boils down to 'we all have made dumb decisions, haven't we? Cut us some slack, will you?' When it comes to them, well, not quite the same measuring." That aside, the story was quite entertaining.

The story of Michaella McCollum made a lot of tabloid headlines in its day: the tale of a British teenager arrested in Peru for smuggling drugs. In this documentary, she tells us what happened. The presentation is bright and breezy but there's a little less to learn than we might have expected: she was young, she was bullied into a stupid mission, she was arrested, imprisoned, but survived; but we don't learn much we might not have already suspected. A "drug cartel laywer", every inch the cartoon villian, is interviewed to tell us how awful the cartels are; but Michaella was just a fool who didn't know much (indeed, she claims to not have even known she was being sent to Peru until she got on the plane). There's still some interest to the story, but the absence of deeper context is frustrating.

The so called victim girl Michaella McCollum (not the actor) is so annoying. During her entire narration, all she could say is:

• Like ....
• I'm like ....
• I was like ....
• I felt, like ....
• I mean, like ...
• It's kind of, like ....
• I don't know, like ....
• Kind of ....
• .... just kind of ....
• Sort of ....
• You know ....

Her each sentence consisted of the above. I think other interviewees spoke better English than her.

All I could understand from this documentary is that Michaella was not really a victim, but rather a wh*te privileged girl, in Ibiza, Peru, prison, by media, people who helped her financially. Even after providing false testimony and lying to the Peruvian court. She could have become an informant and help capturing the drug cartel, but all this self-obsessed girl could think of was about herself ! The story she illustrated was not consistent and may not be true, other interviewees expressed the same. There could be more to the story or she may have been hiding her criminal details, from the court as well as Netflix.