Mi Vida Loca Mi Vida Loca is an exploratory film about life in the hood seen from the viewpoint we usually don't see from in films, the female side. In the film we are introduced to very individualistic and vocal main characters. The girls in the movie are full of pride, stand up for themselves and stand by each other. This looks good on paper, but in actuality they are very ignorant in their actions. They take pride too far, which is why many of them in the movie reflect on how many gangbangers in today's society end up dead. Even though no girls die in the movie, they are all one step away from it. The film celebrates the idea that the life these girls are living may seem glamorous to them, but to us it's almost like a dark fairy tale. The true ignorance of the characters come out in a scene when one of the girls is being released from prison and all her friends come to pick her up. The girl just released explains that she is ready to do something with her life, and the girls who just hours before her release were praising her, now deem her a sellout. But look what it takes for one girl to wake up and smell the coffee: four years in prison. The director points out very clearly that it takes so much for these girls to quite living the imaginary life of a gangster, whether it be a dead boyfriend or a prison term. The film shows very clearly how being in a gang is like joining the military. Once you are in, you are stuck, and system you live by brainwashes you to a point where the only reality you know is being part of that system and living that lifestyle. Pride can go too far, especially when you have to take the life of another human being to make your pride stand out more. Talking a gangster out of being a gangster, as seen in this excellent film and through fatalities in the news, is almost useless. The only way they can come back to reality is the hard way, which unfortunately is death for some. |
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