Nahir - Entre a Paixão e as Grades

This is not a common review. The movie plot is an outrage. A "film" (actually just a low budget tv one) with a preposterous and unnaceptable script. The murderer in real life, a psyco, here's just a poor naive girl. Nothing farther from the truth. The people involved should apologize. To lie is to be a bad person. My two cents: there are people who'll do anything for money, it seems. If they really didn't mean no harm, forgiveness is possible, but they must ask for it first. Fernando and his family and friends, the true victims, should be compensated. Awful mistake making such a terrible movie.

The actors do a good job, they made me believe they were from a small town (not a big city). Particularly, Nahir was very similar to what I remember from the real one. However, that's the only good thing from this movie.

The editing was very weird: the movie jumps in different timelines but not always tells you when that happens (sometimes you're shown the year, but other times you're not), leaving you to guess when things are going on. Some minor plots are barely touch (which makes no point in showing them), and the writing of the plot is kinda awful. There are some background music scenes that do not match the atmosphere of the moment in the movie they're played.

If you knew nothing about the real case, the movie is definitely confusing as to what really happened.

No pun intended - I was not familiar with the case of Nahir - and apparently the movie may not be entirely truthful - at least according to some of the reviewers here. Since I have not followed the case nor read up on it, I can't compare the real life incidents and court hearings and what not, to what the movie portrays.

What I can say: powerhouse performance by the main actress who really gives it her all to show many sides to a troubled teenager. Motivations aside, it is never easy to play such a role which feels quite evil - is she though? Again, I can only judge (and no pun intended here either) from what we see in the movie ... and that does show a complex character ... and even more intriguing story behind it ... the truth shall set you free ... well does it? The end credits may suggest otherwise ... let's see.

The characters are not believable, the acting is weak and heavy handed. The story felt dragged out, lots of unnecessary scenes and plenty of missing necessary ones. The repeating the murder scene but changing it each time has been done before but better in every movie I have seen it happen.

The writer does not appear to understand how to tell a story in a compelling manner. They seem to be aiming for humanising the lead but that did not work and they were not interesting or compelling. None of the characters are worth caring about and frankly I don't know why I didn't stop watching.

The people who worked on the lighting and shot composition have raised this from 1 star to 2.

-The movie goes back and fourth between timelines poorly .

-The music choice was awful and added 0 value to the scenes , dont know if the idea was to make her look cooler or to appeal to the teen audience like it was Riverdale or something.

-I understand creating a show of a real case can be challenging speacilly with the pace of the movie , but this felt so slow and repetitive .

+The whole murder trial was really interesting , it truly felt like a "small town judge" , but sadly those scenes were really short compared to the whole creepy boyfriend scenes.

*Maybe adding something more about other characters , like the victim parents or friends point of view in some of the couple discussions or some background about her family could of been nice.

-All 5-10 minutes referring to her uncle were badly linked to the story and her personality. It just a scene to keep in mind.

I would of loved for this movie to be good , there are so many good real murder/crime stories to be told in latin america , speacially in Argentina.