Blood in Blood Out Thesis
Blood In Blood Out Thesis:
Trying to prove people wrong about where your true roots are it sometimes might not be as easy as we might expect. Many of us have gone through many obstacles trying to be accepted with people of our own ethnicity and at times this fails either because of your physical appearance or the way you’re perceived by others.
What is the context of the film?
Blood in Blood out directed by Taylor Hackford, focuses on half brothers Paco and Cruz, and biracial cousin Miklo. The film focuses more on their cousin Miklo who is anglo and mexican. Miklo was living with his dad who’s ethnicity is white, but Miklo gets into an argument with the dad which ends up moving from Las Vegas to East Los Angeles. There he starts to hang around with his cousins, but as he tries to fit in with his cousins, Paco discriminates him because of his physical appearance (white skin, blue eyes and blond hair). These film is mainly in racial issues. In the movie Paco, talks to Miklo and tells him that in order to be one real chicano he needs to kill one of their enemies in which ethnicity is the same but are with one gang who they do not get along. Once killing one of their enemy he can be part of El Pico Aliso barrio. After the killing Miklo can also be joined to the, East LA gang known as “Vatos Locos”, as he is pressure to kill someone, Miklo is incarcerated and sent to a jail named San Quentin. There he makes a home for himself. There he is treated as an american white guy and not as a mexican in which he has killed in order to be treated as a mexican. But as the film goes on he then has to go through the same thing of killing one of the enemies to be accepted in Vatos Locos in jail and get respect from them. The story of Blood in Blood out focuses on how a violent crime and the influence of drugs alter their lives. Cruz becomes an exceptional artist, but in which he becomes a heroin addict. Paco, since he was involved in the crime that Miklo did he was
Trying to prove people wrong about where your true roots are it sometimes might not be as easy as we might expect. Many of us have gone through many obstacles trying to be accepted with people of our own ethnicity and at times this fails either because of your physical appearance or the way you’re perceived by others.
What is the context of the film?
Blood in Blood out directed by Taylor Hackford, focuses on half brothers Paco and Cruz, and biracial cousin Miklo. The film focuses more on their cousin Miklo who is anglo and mexican. Miklo was living with his dad who’s ethnicity is white, but Miklo gets into an argument with the dad which ends up moving from Las Vegas to East Los Angeles. There he starts to hang around with his cousins, but as he tries to fit in with his cousins, Paco discriminates him because of his physical appearance (white skin, blue eyes and blond hair). These film is mainly in racial issues. In the movie Paco, talks to Miklo and tells him that in order to be one real chicano he needs to kill one of their enemies in which ethnicity is the same but are with one gang who they do not get along. Once killing one of their enemy he can be part of El Pico Aliso barrio. After the killing Miklo can also be joined to the, East LA gang known as “Vatos Locos”, as he is pressure to kill someone, Miklo is incarcerated and sent to a jail named San Quentin. There he makes a home for himself. There he is treated as an american white guy and not as a mexican in which he has killed in order to be treated as a mexican. But as the film goes on he then has to go through the same thing of killing one of the enemies to be accepted in Vatos Locos in jail and get respect from them. The story of Blood in Blood out focuses on how a violent crime and the influence of drugs alter their lives. Cruz becomes an exceptional artist, but in which he becomes a heroin addict. Paco, since he was involved in the crime that Miklo did he was