Some people think The Room is the worst movie of all time. Some think it's a movie with Carrot Top or Pauly Shore. No, those movies are harmless. Those movies birthed some laughter. Mi Vida Loca is a stereo-typed, glorified and I would really hope INCORRECT look at one aspect of Latino culture. I say one aspect because, as a Latino, I know alot of other Latinos that are proud of gang life mentality and consider it to be the defining aspect of our lineage. It's not. It's more like an elective. You, me or nobody has to join a gang and ruin their life. We have music, clothes, art, history, medication, science---so many things going for us---and yet, the one thing some seem to protect and hold highest is being a firme vato! I would never be proud to be a killer. I would never be proud to hold this delusion of representing my city or my home, by completely making it ugly, dangerous and feared...
But I digress...
I don't have one positive praise for this movie. There's not any one outstanding character. There's not one great scene. There's not one great piece of acting. It's all just a bunch of stupid characters, saying, doing or thinking stupid things. No one even has their own mind in this movie. "I'm like a gang member so I gotta do what the streets tell me to do, even if I know it's wrong, cause then all the other gang members will hate me, eh!". Jesus Christ! So the first thing I ever hated this movie for was the opening conflict between Mousey and Sad Girl: They are two best friends, who grew up together, and find out that they are being used and literally screwed by the SAME guy...and their logically thought out answer to this is: "Ah, hell no! That's MY man!". Really? Are people that dumb? There's this other scene, shortly after, when they have their kids by this loser (who gets shot and killed because surprise surprise: that's what happens you join a gang!) and they sort of make up and take them to a park. The kids are playing with eachother and they tell the little boy something like, "You can never have her, mijo! That's like your sister, eh!". Again, Jesus Christ! They're just playing, you morons! They're like 2 and don't even understand the concept of romantic love or sexual intercourse! That line/seriously pissed me off. They have one character in this whole movie that tries to be positive and steer all the other gang members in the right way...and she is laughed off. She tells them about the future and computers and how they can make their life mean something! They can get a job and go to college! They don't have to obey the streets or gang life! But no, they just laugh her off and then one of their kids gets shot, accidentally, in a drive by. Should of went to computer class, huh?
I'm sorry but (censored) this movie! Again, I'm Latino and I have and know a bunch of cousins and others that glorify this crap and live by this movie like their life depends on it. This movie just makes us all look bad and stupid and most of all: dangerous! And we are not...
1 Star for that whole McDonald's/Burger King bit!
But I digress...
I don't have one positive praise for this movie. There's not any one outstanding character. There's not one great scene. There's not one great piece of acting. It's all just a bunch of stupid characters, saying, doing or thinking stupid things. No one even has their own mind in this movie. "I'm like a gang member so I gotta do what the streets tell me to do, even if I know it's wrong, cause then all the other gang members will hate me, eh!". Jesus Christ! So the first thing I ever hated this movie for was the opening conflict between Mousey and Sad Girl: They are two best friends, who grew up together, and find out that they are being used and literally screwed by the SAME guy...and their logically thought out answer to this is: "Ah, hell no! That's MY man!". Really? Are people that dumb? There's this other scene, shortly after, when they have their kids by this loser (who gets shot and killed because surprise surprise: that's what happens you join a gang!) and they sort of make up and take them to a park. The kids are playing with eachother and they tell the little boy something like, "You can never have her, mijo! That's like your sister, eh!". Again, Jesus Christ! They're just playing, you morons! They're like 2 and don't even understand the concept of romantic love or sexual intercourse! That line/seriously pissed me off. They have one character in this whole movie that tries to be positive and steer all the other gang members in the right way...and she is laughed off. She tells them about the future and computers and how they can make their life mean something! They can get a job and go to college! They don't have to obey the streets or gang life! But no, they just laugh her off and then one of their kids gets shot, accidentally, in a drive by. Should of went to computer class, huh?
I'm sorry but (censored) this movie! Again, I'm Latino and I have and know a bunch of cousins and others that glorify this crap and live by this movie like their life depends on it. This movie just makes us all look bad and stupid and most of all: dangerous! And we are not...
1 Star for that whole McDonald's/Burger King bit!