Blood In, Blood Out

[thugpreacha]

Although this is one of those movies that some say glamorizes gang lifestyles, it was made with the full approval of the Warden of San Quentan.

PLOT DESCRIPTION
Taylor Hackford directed this urgent melodrama about the realities of street crime, gangs, and prison life among the Chicanos of East Los Angeles. Miklo (Damian Chapa), Paco (Benjamin Bratt) and Cruz (Jesse Borrego) are three friends who are living in the East Los Angeles of 1972 as it is torn apart by violence. When the gang violence hits the three friends, they are affected by their participation in the bitter violence in different ways. Cruz, an artist, becomes crippled, and he sinks deeply into drug addiction. Paco, an accessory to murder, joins the military to avoid jail time, leading to a spot on the LAPD. Miklo, the kid with the gun, is sent to jail, where he slowly rises up in the ranks of La Onda, the San Quentin Latino gang. ~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide I watched it a few times, thinking not so much that it depicts things the way they now are, but as a youth may see it. Do many of the gang kids grow up on these kinds of movies?

[knowgangs]

The movie is loosely based off the story documented in American Me (excellent movie by the way).

The Vatos Locos as in the movie is what is believed to start the many Vatos Locos gangs throughout the midwest.

got any info on Vatos Locos while we're talking about it? they are booming around here (you see their graffiti in some of the nicest neigborhoods)

Originally Posted by Maryland_man

got any info on Vatos Locos while we're talking about it? they are booming around here (you see their graffiti in some of the nicest neigborhoods)

They seem just like some plain cholos. They don't get along with SUR13, so some of them are allied with those who against the Surenos.

[Tomster]

both films are dope.
but "american me" is the original.