The documentary “Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It” is a story of perseverance, about a woman who has touched audiences with both her formidable body of work and her candidness about what she had to endure to pursue her passions.
She also faced racism, sexism and sexual harassment. In more than 70 years as an actor, singer and dancer, Moreno has worked with some of the most talented people in movies, television and theater, creating characters in the likes of “West Side Story” and “One Day at a Time” that audiences will remember long after she’s gone. Rita Moreno’s life story is a tale of American show business at its best and worst. ‘Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It’ (2021) Ruizpalacios contrasts the fictionalized myth-making with how the real police officers interact with citizens, and he throws in a few surprises intended to push viewers to question their own preconceptions. What starts as an intimate look at the cops’ lives - including cutesy anecdotes and thrilling “ride-along” footage of chases - gradually becomes a film more about the ways law enforcement is depicted in the media. Nothing is ever quite as it seems in the director Alonso Ruizpalacios’s inventive documentary “A Cop Movie,” which uses interviews and re-enactments to the tell the mostly true story of two Mexico City police officers who fell in love.