American Me is a well loved movie amongst the rapping community . Apparently it was Tupac's favourite film and many other rappers I'd never heard of and are probably dead anyway.
I'm not surprised because this is a dark , dank and depressing look at a Mexican-American Mafia kingpin who is released from prison and falls in love for the first time, and grows introspective about his gangster lifestyle.
I like prison/gang movies and I appreciated this to a certain extent but boy is is grim .
Right from the start we see marines during the Second World War raping a Mexican woman and soldiers attacking the men . Did that really happen in 1943 ?
Rape seems a constant thread in the film . There are scenes of male rape and sometimes for no reason and apparently three consultants to the film were actually murdered by the Mexican mafia because they didn't like them being portrayed as homosexual .
There is no light at the end of the tunnel in film . It's brutal and I actually don't mind that .
Edward James Olmos is really good as Montoya Santana and he plays his part very calmly as he tends to do , which makes his character more menacing in a way.
It's not a film I could particularly recommend because it's just so dark but I certainly appreciate the message that the director was trying to get across.
I'm not surprised because this is a dark , dank and depressing look at a Mexican-American Mafia kingpin who is released from prison and falls in love for the first time, and grows introspective about his gangster lifestyle.
I like prison/gang movies and I appreciated this to a certain extent but boy is is grim .
Right from the start we see marines during the Second World War raping a Mexican woman and soldiers attacking the men . Did that really happen in 1943 ?
Rape seems a constant thread in the film . There are scenes of male rape and sometimes for no reason and apparently three consultants to the film were actually murdered by the Mexican mafia because they didn't like them being portrayed as homosexual .
There is no light at the end of the tunnel in film . It's brutal and I actually don't mind that .
Edward James Olmos is really good as Montoya Santana and he plays his part very calmly as he tends to do , which makes his character more menacing in a way.
It's not a film I could particularly recommend because it's just so dark but I certainly appreciate the message that the director was trying to get across.