Review of Life and Nothing More

Cinematically this movie is incredible, but that's not what drew me in, it was the acting and the actors themselves that did. Director Antonio Mendez Esparza took an unusual route in the casting process, and decided to use local non actors and actresses, and in my opinion, this is what made the movie the level of intensity and magnitude that it truly is. By picking locals to play the roles it gave them an advantage into being able to illustrate the characters more accurately because instead of acting for them, it was more of a portrayal of their life, which in return makes the film feel more like a documentary in the sense that you are watching the characters' life unfold, and how they're moving through the changes that life can throw at you. For anyone who thinks that life stops when something goes wrong, I highly recommend watching this film so you see that it can always go up, and there can be a happy ending.