Sin Nombre Movie

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American film director and writer Cary Joji Fukunaga, is best known for both directing and writing the film Sin Nombre. Cary Joji Fukunaga filmed this movie in Spanish, with the film’s title meaning “Nameless”. Cary Joji Fukunaga’s 2009 Mexican adventurous movie won several awards, such as the Directing Award, Best foreign Language Award, cinematography and etc.
Sin Nombre is an adventurous, action thriller that spoke about a Honduran family and a teenage girl named Sayra trying to migrate to the United States, and a boy named El Casper who’s trying to escape from his dangerous gang life with the Mara Salvatrucha also known as the MS-16.
Willy also known as El Casper is both a gang member and mentor towards a young boy named El Smiley in his gang. Living in Tapachula, Chiapas, Mexico, El Casper is part of the Mara Salvatrucha also known as the MS-16. He’s both in love and in a relationship with a wealthy girl named Martha Marlene. El Casper keeps this relationship as a secret from his gang because he fears for her safety toward his gang. He tries keeping her as far from his gang life as possible but that all came to an end when she stubbornly followed him to one of his gang meetings and his leader, Lil Mago accidently killed her during a failed rape attempt. As a result, Lil Mago expresses to Casper by saying “find another”.
Later on, Lil Mago brings both Casper and Smiley to La Bombilla. La Bombilla’s a place beside train tracks on where illegal immigrants wait aside on passing trains so that they could travel toward the United States. Throughout the time being in La Bombilla, the MS-16 gang members robbed passengers for all valuable belongings. Thru all this chaotic behavior, Lil Mago spots a beautiful Honduran teenage girl n...

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...e doesn’t need any more protection, just like how in Sin Nombre, Casper threw his machete off the train showing that he doesn’t need any more protection even though he’s now a walking dead man.
The river was also a symbol somehow in both text. The river symbolizes safety. My Luck stayed along the river trying to avoid the war-madness, and Casper and Sayra used the river to cross for safety from the gang and toward the United States. Also, the river could symbolize death. My Luck lies in the coffin accepting his death and he ends up meeting his mother who has already been dead long before, in addition to Casper dying alongside the river.
Both Sin Nombre and Songs for Night are great movies and text. These two consist of rich connections along the lines of what where being taught as a lesson and small inner things between characters and events throughout each text.

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