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The main point of this movie is honor; Those who set the rules of it and those who truly take the principles to the facts. They may have made a better Character out of Mauricio (I would have named him, to begin, "El rulis" or any common nickname from the slang of this fashion), but Demián Bichir was, anyway, the best actor they could have found for this role. Conventionally, we can talk about El Boy (Bernal, excellent in his role by the way, too) as the good guy, and Demián Bichir as the bad, but each turn their their ways and, at the end of the movie we ask ourselves how worth could revenge be in this case. What did anybody would win from from that? Concerning this, this movie is somehow thought provoking. There are some phrases we hear very often throughout the movie : "Life is not the same for everybody", " A tattoo is not simple fashion, but pain that comes from deep inside and you cannot forget", etc...What I understood from all those vague hints, is that we see two characters from very different backgrounds merge in a single one, and that intention is not the only thing that we need to change our lives and rescue something that's lost...

Those who have seen "bound by honor" or "Boulevard Nights" or "la banda de los panchitos" and liked them, may like this one, even though the cholo characters are not as well portrayed as in these, maybe because they didn't have the first hand resource....but they tried, and found that in the end, the banda and cholo fashions are not as dissimilar as they look. Both are mexican after all.

A script doesn't necessarily have to be realistic to be good. In my opinion, all it needs its to make sense, to be credible within itself. This movie has it all and its very fast paced. It is a very good attempt to expand the perspective of the action movies back then, and I consider it, along with "Perros Callejeros 1 and 2" the best european action movies of the 70s, the background for much of the filmmaking that we see today as "new", and a great spectacle. The enchant of these movies is that, even though some special effects are not credible at all (some of the shot wounds don't bleed at all), those that do required cars to be burnt and some stunts to expose themselves are better than those the new computarized hollywood movies have.It doesnt make you feel like you are watching cartoons. I admit that the beauty of movies is fantasy. But when i compare this movie to any action movie from hollywood, I come to the conclusion that fantasy doesn't necessarily have to please anybodies wishes nor to be custom made for a certain public, but to show different prespectives than those that public has.

the only problem...Real hard to find