Mammoth it's a smooth synopsis of the contrast between the societies that nowadays live on the same planet. On the movie we can see the life of two families from different levels: the life of and American rich family and the life of its maid, a thai family. The maid is an emigrant from Thailand that moved to US looking for cash to maintain her family. Despite the movie has a some criticism, it is extremely smooth compared with how much it can be. It's not a documentary, OK, but if you want to be criticize the differences between societies and make a drama, be truth and faith to the real world. Otherwise, the only thing you do is show the people the tip of the iceberg and they spectators continue being unworried about the problems. But the movie, instead of being focused on the society differences, it is more focus on one of the things that most really matters: the family. The movie is also critique with the people nowadays, they spend more time in their jobs working than with the family. , but when feeling bad or when need somebody, they feel alone, they need to share their sadness the only thing they have is the family, but it it's the last place they go to.

Leo Vidales (Gael García Bernal) is the successful creator of a video game website. His wife Ellen Vidales (Michelle Williams) is a stressed emergency room surgeon. They are away most of the time. Their daughter Jackie spends most of her days with the Filipino nanny Gloria. Leo goes to Bangkok on a business trip. He decides to relive his younger days by backpacking and meets prostitute Cookie. Ellen connects with a young patient and struggles with her relationship to her own child. Gloria is also struggling with her two young sons asking for her to return.Writer/director Lukas Moodysson seems more intent in making a point than making a compelling dramatic movie. For the most part, this moves at a snail's pace. The three separate stories are making some interesting points about exploitation, responsibility, and connectivity. There are problems when the three stories are combined to make a bigger point. Maybe there is no big point to be had. None of it matters because the plot meanders so slowly in the first half.

In New York, the immature family man Leo Vidales (Gael García Bernal) is a successful businessman, owner of the Underlandish, a successful website of digital games and married with Dr. Ellen Vidales (Michelle Williams), a dedicated surgeon of the emergency room of a hospital. They have a daughter, Jackie (Sophie Nyweide), who is an intelligent girl that is raised by her nanny, the Filipino Gloria (Marife Necesito) that spends more time with her than Ellen. Gloria has two sons in Philippine that miss her.When Leo need to travel to Singapore with his partner Bob (Tom McCarthy) to sign a millionaire contract with investors, Ellen operates a boy stabbed in the stomach by his own mother and she feels connected to the boy and rethinks her relationship with Jackie. Meanwhile Leo is bored waiting for the negotiation of Bob with the investors and he decides to travel to Bangkok and lodges in a rustic cottage on the seashore. Leo meets the young prostitute and mother Cookie (Run Srinikornchot) and he has one night stand with her. Meanwhile, Gloria's ten year-old boy Salvador (Jan David G. Nicdao) misses her mother and decides to find a job. His innocence leads him to a tragedy. "Mammoth" is a melodramatic film about motherhood – there are four parallel situations of mother and children – Ellen and Jackie; Gloria and her sons; the boy Anthony and his mother that has stabbed him; and Cookie and her baby. I had a great expectation with this film, but unfortunately the plot does not work well and is pointless, going to nowhere. There is the contrast between people and specially children from the First and Third Worlds, but nothing new. The narrative is cold and not engaging. Gael Garcia Bernal is miscast and his immature character has nothing to do with his mature wife. Sophie Nyweide steals the film with her top- notch performance. There are so many tragedies along the story that in the end I was expecting that Leo had contracted AIDS with Cookie and would transmit the disease to his wife Ellen. The title "Mammoth" refers to the expensive pen that Bob gave to Leo, but I did not understand the intention of the author with this title. My vote is six.Title (Brazil): "Corações em Conflito" ("Hearts in Conflict")

This film captures the truth without fussiness. Education and opportunities do give better quality of life. But each person's starting point in life is different. The journey each takes towards mere survival or providing more for family, shapes his/her decisions and actions.Immerse yourself in the varying quality of life of the Vidalis in New York, Gloria's sons in the Phillipines and that of Cookie in Thailand. With all their good intentions, each character takes on life's decisions and actions which are tainted by their human desires and attachments.The nuances of emotions so accurately expressed by each of the characters in the film just bolt all the situations in their rightful place. The charming scenes of Gloria sharing her language with little Jackie and that between Leo and Cookie, to me, talk about the meaningful familiarization of each others' roots. This too can be seen when Ellen tries to cook lunch and spends some time getting to know Gloria's family . To me, I think these scenes hope that we witness another persons' life as they authentically are. Hopefully, this will inspire people to live a life within all these realities with eyes wide open. This film has depth and is true.