Mosquita & Mari (2012/Wolfe DVD)
Picture:
C Sound: C Extras: D Film: C-
Yolanda -
aka Mosquita - is a Straight-A student, but she lives across the street from
Mari, a neighborhood tough girl. As
Mosquita helps Mari out with her school work and homework a friendship develops
with lingering gazes, and soft touches. As
their friendship and attraction towards each other grows the become each
other's confidant Yolanda's grades begins to dip and Mari slips up at work. Two girls from opposite sides of the fences
with a secret relationship, can they keep their feeling hidden from the rest of
the world, much less their keep up their obligations to their families?
In Aurora
Guerrero’s Mosquita & Mari
(2012), Yolanda is the quite, straight laced girl from a middle class family
whom has a promising future, she has always be watching Mari, the tomboy girl
from across the street who is helping out her family because of financial
problems. Fate brings them together at
school and Yolanda helps Mari out by becoming her friend and tutoring her. As they hang out together, tell each other
their secrets and soon become something more than friends but less than lovers,
but the harsh reality bites back at them when their parents begin to question
their grades and change in personality, can the two girls find a way to stay
together?
This film
is more like young love than a lesbian love story, two BBFs challenging the
world that tells them to conform with society, their relationship is the only
place in which they can be honest with each other and themselves. As their relationship grows they are faced
with challenges of grades, peer pressure, gossiping families, and the reality
of their lives, can such a relationship have hope for the future or is it
doomed to fall apart. This all makes it
a very ambitious drama.
The
anamorphically enhanced 1.78 X 1 image and lossy Dolby Digital sound are
simple, quiet, basic and refined, so don’t expect much excitement in the
playback sense, while extras include behind the scenes and trailers.
- Ricky Chiang
