
Brazilian drug dealers in Manhattan's Lower East Side start a war with a rival gang of Latino drug dealers. Their soldiers are Latino kids all under 17 because, as Rita La Punta says, "They can kill and not go to jail." The war escalates to include their German heroin supplier, his sexy English girlfriend, a Puerto Rican ex-cop, and the Japanese police captain. This movie is about racism, police corruption, junkies, and drug dealing. There is plenty of killing and even a visi... (Full plot summary below)
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Brazilian drug dealers in Manhattan's Lower East Side start a war with a rival gang of Latino drug dealers. Their soldiers are Latino kids all under 17 because, as Rita La Punta says, "They can kill and not go to jail." The war escalates to include their German heroin supplier, his sexy English girlfriend, a Puerto Rican ex-cop, and the Japanese police captain. This movie is about racism, police corruption, junkies, and drug dealing. There is plenty of killing and even a visit to a store dedicated to the Latino pop group "Menudo.
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| Ozus' World Movie ReviewsDennis SchwartzEdgy to a point, but mostly filled with pointed black humor. |
| User ReviewDave JA gritty farce about gang warfare which does for "West Side Story" what director Paul Morrissey's later masterpiece "Spike of Bensonhurst" did for the "Rocky" and "Saturday night Fever" inspired Hollywood fantasies. Featuring a beautiful and distinctive cast (Richard Ulacia is framed exactly like Joe Dallesandro) of mostly non-professionals, artful Bressonian blocking. The opening sequence establishes a rhythm of exchanged and stolen glances which sets the pace for the music-of-looks that underline the characters relationships and suspicions of each other. Marilia Pera's mother figure/Brazilian gang leader is analogous to Ernest Borgnine's joyous mob boss in "Spike of Bensonhurst," and this is a similar social criticism and humored depiction of the triangulations necessary to maintaining a family amidst a crumbling social order and the strange and timeless relationship between race and the family unit ; also similarly racist (i.e. honest by today's standards) and moving as the latter film.The major difference is that with Mixed Blood Morrissey is more firmly tied to the formal design of his exacting blocking, as his young gang members march across the beautiful ruins of the lower east side tenements of 1984. The uplifting Carribean pop provides the hopeful frame to Morrissey's pessimistic and sardonic social view. A major sequence take place in a real nyc store devoted entirely to Menudo merchandise. The difficulty for critics to wrap their heads around Morrissey's work has much to do with how deeply permeating liberal humanistic truisms have become film culture. The final shot and exchange between mother and son is a perfectly articulated and poetic moment of abrupt limbo. Highly recommended. |
| User ReviewMarcelo PI am a great fan of Marilia Pera and she did not disappointed me at all in this movie. I really believe that some lines she delivered in Portuguese should have been translated, because they are really good and funny. The movie itself is tragically funny, but it is quite interesting to watch the East Village when it was a colored neighborhood. What a change... |
| User ReviewAaron WMore hilarious Morrissey. Over the top, goofy as hell dialogue delivered with crazy awesome accents. Richard Ulacia is like a semi-retarded Brazilian Udo Kier. This is good stuff. |
| User ReviewMichael TOutrageous Paul Morrissey cult film is weird, funny and violent. |
| User ReviewcHaChAfOrLiFeI only liked the flick because of the salsa music..some of my favorite music was played during the movie! |