Had to stop watching
I'm not homophobic. But the gay cholo is just unrealistic. If a gang member were gay, there's no way he'd go to a gay party right there in his neighborhood. He'd keep that life in seclusion, and far, far away from his gang habitat. After all, he could be killed for it. It's too bad, because this film had a lot of potential. Up to the point where the two gay guys sit next to the cholo at their party and pretty much reveal that they're gay (which is where I stopped watching, because in reality the cholo is throwing punches and making a run for it, at that point), this film was actually rather realistic. The rest of the characters and the setting were real. The openly gay cholo was just a bit too radical, though. At this point, the film attempts to merge the topic of culture in LA's Echo Park neighborhood with gay fantasy soft core porn. I'm not saying the same hasn't been done regarding heterosexual fantasy, but in either case it corrupts the true story of the film.
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