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| ACTORS: | Edward James Olmos |
| CATEGORY: | Video |
| DIRECTOR: | Edward James Olmos |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 13 March, 1992 |
| MPAA RATING: | R (Restricted) |
| FEATURES: | NTSC |
| MEDIA: | VHS Tape |
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American Me: True events of Prison life I felt this movie gives a true, powerful glimpse on real prison life, and the lives of criminals that believe that what they do is needed to survive. This movie was gripping from beginning to end. People must realize that this is a movie that shows what it's like in reality. The content in this movie occurs everyday! This video can give you an awareness of what occurs in reality. This is an excellent video, and I suggest you go rent right now!
a successful mix between sad reality and poetry - a must
Olmos proved with this movie he's a hell of a director. A difficult topic (chicanos in american society) treated in a hyper-realistic way (the hero becomes a gang leader in prison and earns respect from other minorities), with a unique touch of "sad poetry". Olmos is the hero and narrator of this story, which depicts the history of mexican americans since the 40's. The action takes place mostly in prison, and when freed, the hero discovers he's completely lost outside because he didn't learn how to live like a free man. Olmos, Forsythe and the others are simply perfect. A really dramatic movie - you're not the same after watching it.
Beautiful
This is the most brilliant film I have seen about East Los Angeles. It's about consequences which follow action, and about those victims that fall between them. It's about the true struggle that Mexican-Americans face in the Barrio and about the air of violence and hatred that these children grow up in. Violence conceives violence, and creates a cyclical conundrum in which escape is futile. I see that the Editorial Reviewer on this page wanted to see a solution to our problem. Well miss O'Gorman, if we could find a solution, trust me, we would fix it. As for now, things stay as it is (to some extent) portrayed on the film. The film uses juxtapositions of scenes of love with scenes of violence and creates an aesthetic captured only by great story tellers (such as Tolstoy which you see the main character reading in the film). This film is beautiful and Olmo's life's work. A must see for those interested in ELA culture.