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Daniel Hernandez, writing in a blog for The Los Angeles Times, called watching Miss Bala "an exercise in helplessness, and ultimately, hopelessness. Given the film's bleak message, Miss Bala is doing surprisingly well at the box office. Carlos Gomez Iniesta, the editor-in-chief of Cinepremiere magazine in Mexico City, says this film makes a statement about the collapse of public security that's accompanied President Felipe Calderon's drug war.

So it's really hard to see my country like that. Gomez says Miss Bala is an important film in Mexico right now. It's by a relatively young director, it's centered around the dominant political issue of the day, and, Gomez says, it doesn't try to glamorize the drug trade. The cartel members often seem bored by the mundane work of killing people and dumping bodies. Gomez says director Naranjo shows the gang members as ordinary workers trudging along at their trade.

They are like normal people, really workers. Other films have taken very different approaches to the subject. Many paint the drug lords as smart, handsome heroes surrounded by luxury cars and busty women. Last year, the film El Infierno used piles of dead bodies for comic relief. Director Naranjo says he wanted to make a movie about Mexico at a time when criminals have gained unprecedented power.

And I think, you know, I think I would be lying if I proposed a way out, because I don't think we know the way out. Though rampant corruption leads to a muddying of the moral waters -- it's hard to tell the good guys from the bad -- the mayhem on screen is mostly bloodless, and the sexuality, as typified when handholding replaces rape, restrained. That makes "Miss Bala" acceptable for a wide swath of grownups.

The film contains considerable stylized violence, including gunplay and explosions, with only slight gore, a narcotics theme, some sensuality, brief partial nudity, at least one mild oath, a couple of rough terms and several crude expressions. Director Catherine Hardwicke's remake of a well-received Spanish-language film is meant to be the tale of an ordinary woman discovering her inner toughness.

But improbabilities abound and there's little of note going on beyond a complex and charismatic performance from Cordova. Though rampant corruption leads to a muddying of the moral waters, the mayhem is mostly bloodless and the sexuality restrained, making this acceptable for a wide swath of grownups.

Considerable stylized violence, including gunplay and explosions, with only slight gore, a narcotics theme, some sensuality, brief partial nudity, at least one mild oath, a couple of rough terms, several crude expressions. Get free news updates from The Pilot.

He is not. And she pointed out how the Asian community and white community were not angry with her — just the black folk who she relates to the most. Damn, Gina.

This is not the way. We are all hurting. White supremacy and sexism hurt us all, and no one is bias-free. We all have work to do. We knew we had something special that we wanted to give the world. That is something I wish all actors would get to experience.

We all deserve these moments.