Director: Cary Fukunaga
Main Characters: Edgar Flores (as Willy 'El Casper'), Paulina Gaitan (as Sayra), and the whole Mara Salvatrucha gang.
In the beggining of this movie there is Casper and he has this girl that he loves. He found this Kid calle Smiley and new member of the Mara Salvatrucha gang. To get in a gang young Smiley had 12 seconds of getting brutally beaten up but whome ever can fit a kick or punch in, basically like getting jumped aka an initiation. If you lie you get 13 seconds of the same shit. You got a girl and you let that be known; bad new for her. Casper is romantically involved with a girl, Martha Marlene, but keeps the relationship a secret from his gang, fearing for the girl's safety. When she follows him to a gathering of his gang, the leader, Lil' Mago (Tenoch Huerta Mejía), insists on escorting her away in private, despite the protests of Casper. Lil' Mago tried and failed the attempt of raping her, Lil' Mago accidentally kills her. He conveys this to Casper, telling him that he'll "find another." Lil' Mago brings Smiley and Casper to La Bombilla, a location along the train tracks where illegal immigrants stow away on passing trains for travel to the United States. Among the illegal immigrants is the Honduran family the viewer has been introduced to consisting of a teenage girl Sayra (Paulina Gaitán), her father, and her uncle, who are on their way to New Jersey to live with relatives. Lil' Mago, Casper, and Smiley rob the passengers for any money they have until Lil' Mago spots Sayra and attempts to rape her. El Casper, still grief-stricken and possibly seeing parallels with Mago's treatment of his girlfriend, intervenes, killing Lil' Mago and urging Smiley off the train. Casper keeps on riding the train North. he knows he has to get far far far away or he will be found and killed. He says that they have a very good memory and a lot of people. Smiley goes back to the gang, telling them what happened. Furious, the gang leader El Sol accuses Smiley of collusion. Smiley timidly protests, begging to be sent to kill Casper to prove his loyalty.Already with in seconds when Smiley goes back and they get guys to start looking for him.Throughout the train ride she watches him on the cart next to him, Sayra keeps approaching Casper with curiosity despite her father's advice, because she sences he is in trouble and tries to help him. She gives him food, company, and ends up liking him, keeping him safe from anyone she sees trieng to kill him. They end up liking eachother and he knows and tell her that he is a dead man and she should stay away. Casper, who has smuggled gang members in the past, knows the nuances of the journey, instructing fellow passengers when to get off the train and run around to avoid immigration officers. At one point, Casper is with Sayra's family and helps them threw the journey. While sleeping together one night he wakes up and slips awayonly to descover that Sayra is with him and silently fallowed him. The two journey north on a car transport, Casper evading local franchises of his gang which are all helping Smiley. After that they take the adventure and both of them hide in the shadows from the Mara Salvatrucha gang who is right on there tails, almost breathing the same air as them. Sayra runs into a familiar face at a immigrant shelter, she asks news of her father and her uncle. She is told "No esta con nosotros". Her father is not with us. He has died. Sayra has memorized a family number of her dead father's second family. She is in the United states not outside a mega mall. She got accross at a river where one can only cross at a time. Casper pays the fee with his digital camera containing his cherished pictures of his murdered girl Martaha Marlene. Casper aka Willy insists Sayra crosses the river first. As she gets half way across the MS13 gang finds Casper and after a chase Smiley encounters him on the river bank and shoots him after he turns into coarsely chopped raw meat and fed to the gang's dogs. Smiley now accepted by his gang, he finally gets a tattoo commemorating his loyalty. Very interesting and exciting movie that keeps you on your toes. I like it alot and action movies that are gang related and have a since of hope and love is more attention grabbing than anything.
I rate this as 10 bloody Kills out of 10 bloody Kills.
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