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Sin Nombre | Movie Review by Salvador Rojas
SIN NOMBRE | THE GREATEST SIN OF ALL IS RISKING NOTHING
BrownPride.com | SIN NOMBRE MOVIE REVIEW:
“Sin Nombre”, which translates as "Nameless", is a new Mexican-based gangster movie. This film tells the story of the Latin American immigrant experience through the eyes of a Mexican gang member and a Honduran girl, whose worlds collide on a train headed for the Mexican / US border.
The movie starts off in the city of Tapachula in Chiapas, Mexico, where many undocumented immigrants from Central America begin their trek to the United States. This is also one of the cities where Los Angeles-originated gang La Mara Salvatrucha claim as their territory.
El Smiley and Casper walking the train tracks.
One of the Maras in the movie with the street moniker of Casper (Edgar Flores) helps recruit a peewee into their gang. Once the peewee takes his vicious and brutal thirteen second beating, he can barely smile through the pain and tears as the big homies give him a new identity of “El Smiley” (Kristyan Ferrer).
Casper and Smiley are assigned by the Mero Mero of their
gang to patrol and protect the train station they call “La Bombilla” from
their hated enemies. A series of events based around the train tracks puts
Casper at odds with his former homeboys, including Smiley. Now there's a green light on Casper. At this point his life intersects with Sayra (Paulina Gaitan), a teenage Honduran girl traveling with her father and uncle for a new life in America.
Sayra and Willy (Formerly Casper)
Now Casper is on the run using the same trains to escape his
past life, while the immigrants use it to reach a better life. He now sheds his street name for his birth name “Willy”, but he can't escape from his physical and emotional scars or his gang tattoos. He starts to let go of his past life, but his future is in jeopardy.
"Sin Nombre’s" semi-documentary film-style
realistically captures the dangers and uncertainty that follow Willy and Sayra and
their fellow travelers as their train moves closer to the Texas-Mexico border and closer
to their destiny...
SIN FIN,
Salvador Rojas
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