Rachel Henderson The story told in "Entre nos" is one that crosses cultures around the world therefore resulting in a gripping and heart-wrenching movie. A mother of two is reunited in Queens, New York with her husband. Mariana and her kids are new to the United States from Colombia and speak barely any English and therefore Mariana has not established herself as a self-sufficient individual and thus her family relies entirely upon her husband to support their family. However, he takes off for Miami in search of a job, insisting upon leaving Mariana behind with the children. It takes a depressing and anger-engendering amount of time for her husband to decide he no longer wants to be anchored by the burden of his family, and ceases to send money to his wife and children. Soon they are evicted and forced to sleep in parks and dumpster diving for cans to earn enough money everyday for food. The remarkability of Mariana's story is her bravery and the unwavering love she shows her children and her oldest child shows her. Forgiveness and patience toward each other comes easily amidst some of the most trying of circumstances imaginable for a family. The characters in this movie are ones worth emulating, and there is an abundance of loving traits audiences can and ought to garner from the story.

manderzx06 Entre Nos was a great movie! This movie was about a young woman fighting to find the life she had after her husband leaves her with nothing and forced out to the streets with two young children. It shows what families from other countries coming to America struggle with on a daily basis. The way this movie is filmed is in a natural lighting in Brooklyn New York, but they still add in the lighting to make parts seem more dramatic. The city seems very dirty with trash blowing around when they are walking through the city. Their clothing gets torn and dirty when they are sleeping on the streets and it makes you feel terrible and want to help them with everything when watching them struggle. The mother in the movie is a real fighter and does anything she needs to keep her children safe. In one part when she gets a place to stay and has enough money left over to buy one bag of potato chips, the children share it. It shows you how hungry they are when the children are licking the salt out of the bag while the mother watches. Its a hard part to watch and to know that this is a true story is so upsetting. The ending is great! It will be worth going through the very emotional movie and seeing the trouble in which this family goes through. I would recommend this to anyone! Its something I think everyone should see. Its hard to watch but its something that happens in America everyday. The mother is so strong and for her to be the director and an actress in it is amazing! The actress does a great job knowing that a part of her family went through this struggle so her heart is in this story. Amazing movie its definitely a must see for everyone!

j-henry1027 The story of one family's journey from Colombia to New York City describes the emotional film entitled Entre Nos. Mariana, a mother, and her two children try and survive a new life in a foreign city but the obstacles they face aren't so easy. With no money and no hope, it seems hard to survive.Entre Nos is applauded for the director's excellent and precise camera work. This film is able to thrive with little to no dialogue and minimal plot because the angles in which this film is shot allows the audience to truly feel the pain and sorrow that the family experiences. From the camera being close up in the faces of the family members to the camera being far away showing a larger picture of the poverty the family is living in, the audience is able to sense and feel the agony and emotional intensity of the family's unfortunate situation. The larger shots show the family's living situations. Many of these scenes contain trash, vacant areas, and even the apartment the family is able to eventually settle in until they can make ends meet. The close up's show the emotion seen within the faces of the family, further reinforcing the challenges the family is faced with everyday whether or not they are going to eat, have a place to sleep, or money to even survive.One of the most powerful scenes within the film is when Mariana's oldest son, Gabi, is standing behind a chain-link fence and looking onto a school and it's playground. The scene is shot at a wide angle and shows Gabi standing behind the fence and then zooms into Gabi's hand and you can see the dirt underneath Gabi's nails. This scene is so powerful because the chain-link fence represents all of the challenges and obstacles the family has faced once they have arrived in New York City. The family feels like they can never get ahead. The dirt shown underneath Gabi's nails shows the poverty that the family is experiencing. The family is living day to day with no place to sleep, no soap and water, no nothing. The fact that Gabi is looking at the school and wishing he could go there some day shows that in actuality that Gabi is still just a kid. He feels the need to protect his family because he is the only boy and tries to collect cans for his family so they can have a little bit of cash, but behind this hard front Gabi puts on, he is just an innocent kid who wants to go to school like the rest of the them. This scene truly depicts what type of emotional and physical hardship that not only Gabi is experiencing, but Mariana and her youngest child also.I recommend this film because it is a great eye opener. Many Americans feel the need to look down upon or negatively towards immigrants. This film shows that immigrants are people too and the unfortunate challenges they experience when moving to somewhere foreign.

hannaleann Entre Nos is a graphic portrayal of a struggling family who has immigrated to America. Trauma is the common thread woven throughout this film; it seems as if nothing goes right for Mariana and her children. Paola Mendoza does an excellent job exposing the difficulties that her grandmother faced when she came to the United States. The audience sees that good can come from an awful and heartbreaking situation. Mariana's husband, after we see him using a prostitute, leaves her and her children and unborn baby for Miami. The audience immediately grieves with Mariana and the slow music emphasizes the state of depression. When the family is forced to roam the streets harsh lighting is used on the characters to show the condition that the family is in. The camera usually shows the picture straight on with no angle or other techniques used. This is done to emphasize the "realness" of the story. The audience also completely pities Mariana and is almost forced to think about what they would do in that situation. The Latin culture is woven throughout different parts of the movie; this is mainly accomplished by the Latin music in the background. Other Latin influences in the movie were the Catholic Church and the Latin-American women in the food truck. The scene where Mariana has an implied abortion is extremely difficult to watch as a viewer. Thankfully, the director did not go so far as to show everything, but as a warning, it will be particularly upsetting. When Gabi, the boy, tells his new classmates what he did over the summer, it causes a variety of emotions. In one way, the audience is sad because of the reality that this was his first summer, and it was a nightmare, but, on the other hand, the audience laughs because of the irony of it all. We see that the family does eventually make a better life for themselves after persevering and finding some work. This movie might appeal to those interested in studying immigration or those interested in social work because of the extensive amount of reality that is shown in the film. I am glad I was able to watch it for knowledge that I gained about immigrants in America, but I would never voluntarily watch this type of painful movie. Overall, this movie deals with a traumatic circumstance that many still struggle with today and encourages the viewers to understand the reality that happens around them every day.