The film's poster, showing lead character Daniela
Daniela is a 17-year old bisexual Chilean girl from a strict Evangelical Christian family. Chafing due to her parents (especially her mother's) restrictions, she secretly lives a life of casual sex and partying, while writing about her life on her blog, Young and Wild (Joven y Alocada in Spanish). When her latest tryst is found out by her school, she's expelled. Giving her one last chance to abide by their standard, her mother sends her to work at the Evangelical TV station. There temptation however comes again-she is drawn to a handsome young man, Tomás, and also Antonia, two of her coworkers. Moving between them, Daniela is also still at odds toward her family as well.Tropes:
- Above the Influence: Tomás manages to stop Daniela giving him a blowjob, which he clearly wants, as he's a committed Evangelical (unlike her) while also objecting that she's drunk (more than him).
- Abusive Parents: Daniela is angrily slapped, shaken and gets her hair pulled by her mother after the latter realizes she's been having sex with Tomás. The fact that she's very controlling of Daniela and constantly spies on her is pretty bad too.
- Affectionate Nickname: Daniela's nicknamed "Dani" by her boyfriend, and "Danielita" (little Daniela) by her aunt.
- Against My Religion: Daniela's parents and Evangelicals generally oppose her libertine ways because of their strict religious beliefs that all extramarital sex is wrong.
- As the Good Book Says...: Being set in the Chilean Evangelical community, there are naturally Bible quotes quite frequently. The Evangelical TV station where Daniela works even runs a game show based on completing Bible quotes (she knows them all by heart). She also tries to rationalize having sex in the ways the Evangelics dislike (outside marriage, with a woman etc) through selective quoting of the Bible as well, though not that often. Daniela also tells Antonia she loves her "70 times 7" and explains that it's a phrase used in the Bible to mean something infinite. She also names her blog entries in faux Bible style, e.g. Gospel 1.1 etc.
- Bisexual Love Triangle: Daniela is very attracted to both Tomás, her boyfriend, and Antonia, a woman who she works with. She fantasizes about having a threesome with them both, but this doesn't happen. Daniela does have sex with both separately though. She continues to see both while Tomás isn't aware of this. Daniela falls in love with both of them. The two inevitably realize what she's doing and both break up with her, so Daniela is left alone in tears.
- But I Would Really Enjoy It: Tomás initially resists the advances Daniela makes on him as it goes against his Evangelical beliefs. He gives in eventually and they begin a sexual relationship though.
- Cool Aunt: Daniela's aunt Isabel is more freespirited than her mother by far, giving her a Rolling Stone that had a sexually explicit article that her mother threw out before. She contrasts them as well by her aunt cursing, staying single dating many men and not complaining over anything, even getting cancer. Daniela is far closer with Isabel and dreads losing her.
- Downer Ending: Daniela loses both Tomás and Antonia since they realize she's been seeing them at the same time. It's implied she's disowned after her mother realizes she's been having more extramarital sex, and when her beloved aunt dies she can't even go to her funeral. At the very end, her last words are saying she just feels lost now.
- Easy Evangelism:
- Daniela's parents apparently converted from Catholicism to Evangelicalism after getting just one talk with her Evangelical pastor uncle (who also destroyed the icon of Virgin Mary which they had in the back yard, because in his view it's an idol the Bible prohibits). She still resents this, as it's meant she's lived a very restrictive life ever since.
- One of the conversion stories she watches too in the Evangelical TV station is from a woman who'd converted just due to someone saying God loved her, seemingly. This is perhaps more justified as she lived an empty hedonistic life before that she'd been very unhappy with.
- Egocentrically Religious:
- Daniela criticizes the Evangelicals for being very egocentric in their faith, especially the rich ones like her family. It's hard to argue when one event they have is even "We Are The Light Of The World", as that also sounds possibly blasphemous (Jesus is called "The light of the world" in the Bible).
- Later she also questions one Evangelical while interviewing him about converting if he'd really "given up his ego" as he claims to have by giving away his property and breaking off with his girlfriend, when he did what he'd wanted by following Christ instead. He isn't pleased by this, cutting off the interview and complaining to the station manager, who lectures Daniela over it.
- Another example is when her family and Tomás pray for protection while the restaurant they're eating at gets robbed (it seems to work) but not for anybody else there.
- The Hedonist: Daniela, though raised Evangelical, secretly lives a life of casual sex and partying, while writing on her blog about it all. Even when she gets into long-term relationships, it's also with two people at once, a man and woman, as she's so into both.
- Hollywood Atheist: At one of the Evangelical meetings, a pastor denounces atheists and agnostics as living selfish lives with only relative values to let them do as they wish. Daniela, though not explicitly an atheist, clearly rejects the Evangelical doctrines she's been brought up with and lives precisely the hedonistic lifestyle they denounce.
- Hormone-Addled Teenager: Daniela to a tee. She's driven by her sex drive through the story, and all her problems stem from this since her community opposes extramarital sex of any kind. It also causes her to see two people at once, which results in both leaving her when they find out.
- I Have No Son!: Daniela's older sister was disowned for having had extramarital sex with her boyfriend then marrying him against her mother's wishes. She won't let Daniela see her, though their aunt still arranged a secret reunion. When her mother catches on that she's been having sex with Tomás, it's later implied that she'd been disowned for this, since she just stays off to the side with her sister at their aunt's funeral, her mother giving them dirty looks.
- Making Love in All the Wrong Places: Daniela and her boyfriend have sex on a rug once.
- Masturbation Means Sexual Frustration: Daniela is a Hormone-Addled Teenager who's sexually frustrated due to the restrictions of her Egocentrically Religious family. She deals with it by secretly masturbating, which she's shown doing in her very first scene. She also talks about doing it at length on her blog too and later masturbates thinking about a handsome boxer she'd watched.
- Mr. Fanservice: Tomás, a very handsome young man, is shown shirtless and his backside bare while having sex with Daniela.
- Ms. Fanservice: Daniela and Antonia are both good-looking young woman who have multiple sex scenes together (in Daniela's case with other people too).
- My Beloved Smother: Daniela's mother attempts to control her through different punishments and spying on her, as she's appalled by Daniela having any extramarital sex (due to being a devout Evangelical Christian).
- My Girl Is Not a Slut: Daniela's mother is mortified by the extramarital sex she has, continually inflicting and threatening greater punishments over it. By the end it's implied she's disowned Daniela at last.
- Nepotism: After she's expelled from her school before she can take the entrance exam for college, Daniela instead gets a job at the Evangelical TV station apparently through her parents' connections in the community. There she meets Antonia, the niece of the manager (she's not even Evangelical), so it seems to be a standard practice.
- Next Thing They Knew: Once she denies being a tease after Antonia's accused her of this, Daniela is seen abruptly in bed with her while having passionate sex together.
- "Not If They Enjoyed It" Rationalization: Daniela relates that the first time she had anal sex, it was due to a guy just doing this without asking, rather than vaginal as she expected, and didn't stop when she'd pointed this out. She's not bothered since it was enjoyable to her.
- Queer Establishing Moment: Daniela is established to be bisexual when she shows desire for Antonia through the pair flirting, then they have sex in the next scene. Previously she only showed desire for or had sex with men.
- R-Rated Opening: The film opens on Daniela in bed with a guy whom she starts masturbating next to.
- Sex in a Shared Room: Daniela and Tomás, while in the room with her sleeping aunt, have sex on the nearby couch together (she doesn't wake up).
- Sex Is Good: Daniela believes this, quite unlike her parents and the Evangelical community, to whom it's bad except in marriage. She complains they treat fornication like it's the worst thing ever. Her blog is heavily about extolling the joys of sex and relating her escapades.
- Sex Montage: Daniela is shown having sex with Antonia and Tomás while reflecting on her loving and desiring them both.
- Slut-Shaming: Daniela is quietly told off for having sex with a boy before being married by her teacher, then is kicked out of the Evangelical school. She later says they treat it as worse than murder or other crimes, and their real First Commandment is "thou shalt not fornicate", complaining of this.
- The Tease: Antonia says Daniela is an "Evangelitease" for flirting with her and then running off. The two have sex after this.
- Threeway Sex: Daniela fantasizes about having a threesome with her boyfriend Tomás and Antonia, a woman she also likes.
- Title Drop: "Young And Wild" is the title of the blog Daniela runs, which serves as a self-description too.
