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Bound by Honor
Crime, Drama, Thriller
Based on the true life experiences of poet Jimmy Santiago Baca, the film focuses on half-brothers Paco and Cruz, and their bi-racial cousin Miklo. It opens in 1972, as the three are members of an East L.A. gang known as the "Vatos Locos", and the story focuses on how a violent crime and the influence of narcotics alter their lives. Miklo is incarcerated and sent to San Quentin, where he makes a "home" for himself. Cruz becomes an exceptional artist, but a heroin addiction overcomes him with tragic results. Paco becomes a cop and an enemy to his "carnal", Miklo.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers drawn to sprawling, emotionally bruising crime dramas about fractured brotherhood, cultural identity, and lives reshaped by violence.
- Tone
- bleak, tense, melancholic
- Payoff
- heartbreak, catharsis
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- intense
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- family loyalty, gang culture, addiction, racial identity, cycles of violence
- Setting
- late twentieth-century, marginalized urban neighborhoods and prison institutions
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