A dear friend and mentor of mine works a great deal with Mexican immigrants here in ‘Burque and he also lived down in Juarez for awhile, working with the poor. The subject matter of this flick is near and dear to his heart so I found myself toughing out a trip to the Multiplex when he asked me to join him. Very glad I did.

This was a powerful story of the Mexican gang culture on one hand and the journey north that so many Mexicans feel compelled to take on the other. I think if more Americans understood just how terrifyingly bad it was in parts of Mexico, they might understand the immigration issue a little better, but the major media outlets in America do an amazing job of keeping the blinders on the masses for the most part. Of course, the masses generally don’t seem too interested in the truth, so I guess you can’t lay it all on the media. Whoops…guess I’ll get off the soapbox now.

The acting in this flick was extremely good, the story moved at a good pace, and some of the cinematography was absolutely stunning. I really wish I had more of the money and the patience that regular trips to the theater would require from me. Watching a movie on the the big screen is admittedly a superior experience in so many ways, but the other side of the scale is often just too heavy to bear.