Body Comodification in Maria Full of Grace

Writer and theater director Joshua Marstons film Maria beneficial of Grace chronicles the titular natures foray into the drug trade. The young girl, in desperate circumstances, wagers that the property promised to her by her drug running employers against the plethora of possible unfortunate outcomes, and when she accepts the job, her bole effectively becomes commodified. Maria, in the film, is reduced by her employers from a daughter, sister and tumescent(p) mother to little more than a human container, a hugger-mugger vessel to facilitate the import of cocaine into the United States from Columbia. Maria Full of Grace exposes the methods that drug trustingnesss use to ensure that their shipments arrive to their destinations. The mules are do to swallow pellets of cocaine, and, upon arriving in the United States, excrete them to be sold. This method of pitch shot is fraught with danger. There is, of course, the possibility that the mules will be discovered by authorities on either side of the put off, and smuggling such large quantities of narcotics carries hefty penalties that could see them locked up for life.Another, even more serious brat is that the pellets could, at any time, rupture inside of the mules body, which is tantamount(predicate) to a death sentence. With these dangers being considered, it can be difficult to envisage how someone could allow themselves to be used in such a way, but, luckily, the film includes the necessary motivations. Maria is prompted to become a drug mule when she loses her job de-thorning roses. She had been keeping her struggling family afloat with this occupation, and was in desperate admit of employment, especially considering she was pregnant.While all drug mules impart various reasons for choosing to use their bodies to transport drugs, most of those reasons are to escape desperate circumstances. The mules are given the fortune to feed their starving families, to find some solace from their impoveri shed lives. The mules bind no illusions about becoming rich, they are simply compelled by their overleap of options to accept any job that pays well, even if it means happening anything.Drug mules are compelled by desperation into the horrific world of drug smuggling, but the cartels are actuate only by lust for greed and profit. This represents yet another risk that the mules must face. In Maria full of Grace when Lucy falls ill, the cartel members that contact her pay no mind to the fact that she is dying earlier their eyes. To the drug runners, Lucy has fulfilled her purpose by transporting the cocaine, and they thus have no reason to protect her life. When Lucy dies, she is disemboweled in the bathtub of a hotel room for the drugs she was carrying. nd her body is simply and unceremoniously dumped, this turn of events serves to showcase the fact that the cartels thumb no empathy towards the people that they rely upon, for, to them, they are not people, but have been reduced to mere objects. Maria Full of Grace helps to showcase how globalisation is allowing human beings to be reduced to commodities. The international trade in drugs makes more unscrupulous people a lot of money, and so, those people are ordain to go to any lengths to ensure that the drug trade between nations continues.When border patrol agents, drug sniffing dogs and the coast guard shut down avenues of trade, the cartels sullen to the idea of using people as the containers of their wares. This commodification of the human body dehumanizes the mules to such an extent that when they die serving their employers, their thanks is to be cut beyond recognition for their cargo and disposed of, as if they were trash to be thrown and twisted out. Joshua Marstons film perfectly reveals the negative ways in which globalisation has led to the commodification of the human body