Daniel and Ana

The title characters are teen-aged brother and sister who are kidnapped and forced to perform such unspeakable acts that their relationship is shattered forever. It's interesting to see how each reacts to the tragedy. The slow pacing is frustrating, given that dialog is sparse and there are endless scenes of characters doing nothing but staring into space. As Daniel, Bernal gives a one-note performance. He barely speaks five lines throughout the movie, making it hard to understand what he's going through or to sympathize with him. Vega fares better as his sister, an outgoing young woman whose spirit is severely deflated by the attack.

DANIEL & ANA is based on a true incident, and reveals a relatively unknown aspect of The Porn Industry. The thesis of the film is that, especially in South and Central America, some individuals engaging in online pornography may not be willing participants. Although the film is darkly bleak and disturbing, it presents an unfortunate aspect of human behavior. If an individual has been subjected to extreme sexual or psychological horror, they might not react in a way that one would ordinarily expect. I think that many people who have commented on this film have failed to recognize this important fact. The behavior that Daniel engages in after the event, although wildly inappropriate, is not in any way out of the realm of possibility. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is not easily 'cured', or even understood, and can cause significant impairment in all aspects of human functioning.

May be based on true events but as usual Michael Franco gives you disturbing work. Whoa! Guess everyone has their preferred genre.

Maybe I'm so disappointed cause everyone sells Michel Franco as one of the best directors of his time. Nothing could be further from the truth. This is a bad movie, that's it, the story could've been read from the local newspaper, no need to make a movie just to watch an actress without clothes, it seems that Michel Franco directed this movie only to feed his morbid curiosity of doing a pornographic movie. Bad acting + bad photography = bad director. In the first. The first scenes are super tedious, showing a unrealistic boring life. Mexico City offers much more than what they portray, there's no caos in that city. The incongruous and unreal scenarios, playing with the theory of how people from organized crime use you is near stupidity, it's like filming criminal theories that we would like to happen, but the harsh reality is not like that, reality surpasses fiction, and if you are not willing to project the harsh reality it is better not to announce the story as a real fact. People who have been victims of crimes of this type must be very angry to see this, no one has been as lucky as these characters, this story is unreal, you can ask any kidnapping victim.

The story is good. The fact that it is condemning a real problem makes it even better. For a while, I thought it was going to be a powerful film, but it was not. You will find yourself counting the minutes for the movie to end. The preamble to the peak moment is boring, then less than 20 minutes of a good sequence, perfectible, but good enough, considering the roughness of the situation. That's it. The rest is dull, repetitive, and flat. The plot offered plenty to work with. The story is claimed to be real, thus there were many other things they could have shown, expressed, and exposed to move the audience. However, all the opportunities were wasted with a weak and God-fearing approach to the post-traumatic behavior. They lost it. Toward the end, another dramatic moment is featured as an irrelevant inconvenience solved with Ana giving the cold shoulder to her brother. They took the easy way to solve the conflict. It is fair to say that the photography is flawless. Marimar Vega's performance is the best of the film.