(Without Name)
Writer/Director: Cary Fukunaga
Year: 2009
Cinematographer: Adriano Goldman
A difficult film to watch emotionally, but excellent. Very good direction and acting here, conveying the brutality of the Honduran MS-13 crime gang, and telling the story of one of their young members who attempts to escape from the gang by hitching one of the freight trains heading north to the Mexican/US border, where passengers hope to successfully cross into the USA to find a better life.
Unfortunately for this young boy, he knows that if he is able to get to the US, he will still lead his life in fear, hiding from the gangs branches in the US, especially the gangs incredible power and influence in Los Angeles.
The boy finds a friend in a young girl also on board the roof of the train. She hopes to make it to New Jersey to live with her father's American family.
The story is brutal, pulls no punches. It serves as a document to two separate but interconnected cultural phenomenons, the immigration trains and the MS-13 gang.
A must see film.
A difficult film to watch emotionally, but excellent. Very good direction and acting here, conveying the brutality of the Honduran MS-13 crime gang, and telling the story of one of their young members who attempts to escape from the gang by hitching one of the freight trains heading north to the Mexican/US border, where passengers hope to successfully cross into the USA to find a better life.
Unfortunately for this young boy, he knows that if he is able to get to the US, he will still lead his life in fear, hiding from the gangs branches in the US, especially the gangs incredible power and influence in Los Angeles.
The boy finds a friend in a young girl also on board the roof of the train. She hopes to make it to New Jersey to live with her father's American family.
The story is brutal, pulls no punches. It serves as a document to two separate but interconnected cultural phenomenons, the immigration trains and the MS-13 gang.
A must see film.
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