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American Me
Crime, Drama
During his 18 years in Folsom Prison, street-gang leader Santana rules over all the drug-and-murder activities behind bars. Upon his release, Santana goes back to his old neighborhood, intending to lead a peaceful, crime-free life. But his old gang buddies force him back into his old habits.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers drawn to serious, socially grounded crime dramas about institutional racism, fractured identity, and the difficult possibility of redemption.
- Tone
- bleak, tense, melancholic
- Payoff
- catharsis, heartbreak
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- intense
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- gang loyalty, incarceration, identity, racism, cycles of violence
- Setting
- late twentieth-century, East Los Angeles neighborhoods and prison institutions
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