“Now, from the director of ‘The Devil’s Advocate’ comes ‘Blood in … Blood out,’ a critically acclaimed modern-day epic. Within the rich and colorful Chicano culture of East Los Angeles, three cousins raised as brothers fiercely live by a generation-old tradition of family -- a power stronger than law, force deeper than friendship. In one life-shattering moment, the trio is torn apart, forcing them to follow three separate paths: one searching for truth in the law, one expressing through art, and one finding power in prison. Yet through it all, family and honor keep their lives intertwined as each strived for survival and Power!- ‘Blood in Blood out’- 1993.” The movie “Blood In, Blood Out” had was a remarkable movie for cross cultural seminar students should learn about. There were two two subcultures in this movie. The …show more content…
first subculture was the Rattos Locos gang that the three cousins were in together.
The three cousins’ names were Cruz, whom was the artist, Paco, who went to the marinas and then became a cop after the gang life, and Miklo, whom gained control and stayed in the gang life when he went to jail. Initiation into the gang was pretty much how most gangs do it. The guy that wanted to be in the gang had to stand up to one of their enemy gang members. After they do that crime, the rest of the Rattos locos gang members come together and do a “baptism” for the new member. They take the side of the new member’s hand, closest to the thumb, and puts a symbol on the hand. Also, they put salt on the cut making it seem like a baptism. The member that was getting initiated into the gang at the beginning of the movie was Miklo. Cruz and Paco would call Miklo milkweed, white boy, and Chicano because he was half caucasian, half mexican. Then after the “baptism”, the gang members would throw a party. This gang does not like any other gangs that are in their heritage. Rattos Locos usually have graffiti everywhere to tell where their territory
is located at. Even though they are a gang, family is what matters a lot to them. In the movie, when Cruz got jumped on, the rest of the Rattos Locos joined together and beat up some of the enemies gang members. The other subcultural shown in the movie was the gangs in jail. The jail gangs were completely different from the outside gangs. The jail gangs were separated by color not by specific gangs. The hispanic, caucasian, native americans and etc., were all in separate gangs. It did not matter what gang the guy came from inside of the hispanic. All the hispanics were now your allies. In jail, the guys become “in the circle” when they assassinate their enemy. Because Miklo’s skin was causin color, the hispanic gang members were very uncertain on Miklo’s respect for the hispanic gang. Miklo had to assassinate one of the head leaders of the caucasian gang to be allowed in the hispanic gang. The term “blood in, blood out” meant that you have to kill someone to get into the gang, and if you want to get out of the gang, you will have to die. This theory has been built for almost any gang. The gang wants to make sure that you are dedicated and loyal enough to join the gang. You would do anything, and everything for the gang. If you try to leave the gang, your dedication and loyalty has been broken, so you must bleed/die.
The kids became gang members for many reasons. Some needed to find what their place was in the world, and they needed to know who they were as human beings. Joining the gang gave them a feeling of being involved in something and made them feel better about themselves. They felt that as a gang member they received the attention, emotional support, and understanding that they couldn’t get from their actual family members at home.
The impression that I made out from watching this film is that back in 1965 in Los Angeles the gangs Crips and Bloods was found to protect black Americans from the violence cause by white police officers and white gang members. During those periods black kids in high school and junior schools were being attacked by white students in school so black people teamed up together to fight against them in school; and that was how the black gangs became. Some gangs were sponsored by Slausons, Farmers, Bausinessmen, and Gladiators. Moving forward, bastards of the party came from a passage in city of quartz which was later made a documentary film in 2005, it was produced by Alex Demyanenko, and directed by a former blood gang member Cle Sloan. Inside this movie, it explored the creation of two of Los Angeles’s notorious gangs Crips and Bloods from the perspective of Los Angeles community.
They decided they could make better money on their own. Eventually they teamed up with some other neighborhood kids and formed what seems to be something between a criminal and a conflict gang. Conflict gangs are typically made up of unskilled criminals who don’t have legitimate or illegitimate opportunities to succeed so they partake in risky, petty crime like gambling, robberies and other violent crimes. They are also not as organized as criminal gangs. Gus and Pablo, along with some others, later formed a stick-up, or robbery team. However, I argue that the drug robberies that the kids partake in is not unskilled or unorganized. For example, the robberies were always planned in advance. They had ‘the girl’ who would open the door for the guys, either literally or figuratively by getting close to the drug dealer and making him feel comfortable. Then the guys would use the element of surprise to shock and restrain the dealer. The dealer would often be tight lipped about the location of his drugs, so the guys would often have to resort to torture in order to get the information. However, it was not just random, violent torture, it was thought out. There was a code between drug robbers to never kill someone. They knew the best torture techniques, like ironing someone’s back, but they agreed never to go as far as killing the dealer. While not all drug robberies went this exact way, they all seemed to
Blood feuding and dushmani has only developed in the past few decades in Thull. It is stated that this has occurred because of economic change and political modernization, which both have been previously stated. As an American citizen I find it very difficult to understanding how such a society can actually work. This book is informative of a society and culture that most Americans probably have never heard of. I cannot even begin to imagine living in such a place. Worrying about your life everyday would have to be very frustrating especially not even knowing who your enemies are. I can understand why everybody carries a firearm because if you don’t your life is put at a much higher risk. Overall, this book gives great insight into another culture, but makes me appreciate the country I live in much more.
Takeshi Miike's “Black Society Trilogy” marked his transition from making direct-to-video films to theatrical releases and made him one of the most well-known directors of exploitation cinema. The first of these three films, “Shinjuku Triad Society” (1995), offers a visceral look at the Japanese underworld, and establishes Miike's trademark style of black humor and extreme violence.
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...e epilogue, as well as a useful glossary of Spanish terms he uses in the book. Rodriguez's autobiographical account although obstructed by occasional philosophical digressions, is a straightforward retrospection that is timely, authoritative and convincing. There has never been a more clear and forceful account of a gang member's life than Always Running, Luis J. Rodriguez's eloquent, impassioned, terrifyingly vivid chronicle of his youth in Los Angeles in the late 60s and early 70s. Growing up in Watts and East L.A., Rodriguez joined his first gang at age 11 and was drawn into "la vida loca" the crazy life. Gangs were "how we wove amazing out of the threads of nothing," he remembers. (Luis J. Rodriguez, Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L. A., 1994.) Rodriguez's inspirational story should be read by anyone who cares about the future of children in America.
As he exclaimed, “Gangs are not alien powers. They begin as unstructured groupings, our children, who desire the same as any young person. Respect. A sense of belonging. Protection”(pg. 250). Gangs represented power and trust to many of the teenagers because each gang was in charge of an area of territory and the trust within the gang gave protection to its members, thus symbolizing a second family. Many of the new members had to do something illegal or immoral in order to initiate into that particular gang. Some had to allow the gang members to beat them up while others had to go to the extent of violating a law. Once someone was in the gang, the member could not opt out and was considered a recidivist because the gang member was continuously falling back into criminal habits. In continuance, the social structure at that time period was based on racial oppression, and prejudice. Rodriguez felt the needless choice of being associated with a gang. He had to make a decision of which gang to join in order to survive the discrimination and the maltreatment presented by the society he lived in. Once he joined a gang, he became limited and forced to commit criminal actions. He described his wanting to resist one of the situations as the following, “I didn’t want to do this. But once you’re asked to do a hit, you can 't refuse, can’t question or even offer an
This demonstrates to us that no matter how much your legal or moral laws are violated, what matters is how you as an individual react to the situation, justly or unjustly. This movie is centered around the notion that if you are a person of ethnic background, that alone is reason for others to forsake your rights, although in the long run justice will prevail
The gang and the community are intertwined as the gang encompasses many of those that live in the area, as presented in the ending of the film. The ending is important because it sets up the permanency of label theory, and when the role of delinquent becomes evident. Throughout the movie the main character Montoya Santana speaks of respect and his gang, until the end where it states how he regretted his role, as a kid turning to gang culture for respect. In the movie it states,” You know, a long time ago, two best homeboys, two kids, were thrown into juvie. They were scared, and they thought they had to do something to prove themselves. And they did what they had to do. They thought they were doing it to gain respect for their people, to show the world that no one could take their class from them. No one had to take it from us, ese. Whatever we had... we gave it away” ( ) This quote connects of labelling theory because it relates the role of gang members they had to play at juvenile detention and extended to that identity being the basis of them growing up. Proving themselves became the bases of their identity being labelled as criminals at such a young age created a need for a role to protect themselves the only way they knew how. They come from a place where gang was the only prominent role in their
This vicious group gets its respite from the Mexican government by hunting for scalps in return for bounties in Chihuahua and the overlying regions. As their horrors increase day by day, and as death keeps visiting them in the vast Wild West, the gang’s thirst for gore goes into overdrive and they turn against the same people they were t protect. Under the philosophical guidance of Judge Holden a vicious, sly pedophile and murderer, the gang reaches a point of no return in their belief that their work is
Unsuccessful intercultural encounters can sometimes result in tremendous consequences like losing business deals, breaking relationships or even destroying blood ties. In fact, for those who have watched the documentary “Daughter from Danang”, the idea of the last consequence would emerge vividly and hauntingly. The documentary, directed by Gail Dolgin and Vicente Franco, tells the reunion between a daughter and her long-lost birth mother. The reunion, which is expected to be an exhilarating experience, unfortunately becomes a painful one with heartbreaking moments. The failure of this reunion can be attributed to a number of reasons, but the most visible one is perhaps the issue of cultural differences. through the lens of intercultural communication,
This essay will be explaining the definition of sociology, the sociological factors of obesity using Symbolic Interactionism Theory and the Functionalism Theory and a description of the medical condition obesity and how it may affect individuals suffering from it.
They are a national gang. Of course, the gang is not as big here as where it originated in California. However, it is considered to be one of the largest gangs in the United States. That I do remember from gang class. Also, to be accepted into the gang, one must take a beating from members. This gang is known for violence and they do not hesitate to use extreme actions when protecting their turf against rivals or the police. They are big with the selling and distribution of crack cocaine, PCP along with other drugs. Other activities would be armed robberies, auto theft, assault and murder (Cruz, 2015).
Since the creation of films, their main goal was to appeal to mass audiences. However, once, the viewer looks past the appearance of films, the viewer realizes that the all-important purpose of films is to serve as a bridge connecting countries, cultures, and languages. This is because if you compare any two films that are from a foreign country or spoken in another language, there is the possibility of a connection between the two because of the fact that they have a universally understanding or interpretation. This is true for the French New Wave films; Contempt and Breathless directed by Jean-Luc Godard, and contemporary Indian films; Earth and Water directed by Deepa Mehta. All four films portray an individual’s role in society using sound and editing.