{"id":24397,"date":"2013-02-11T20:26:56","date_gmt":"2013-02-12T04:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=24397"},"modified":"2013-02-11T20:26:56","modified_gmt":"2013-02-12T04:26:56","slug":"crosstown-miriam-kruishoop-2013-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=24397","title":{"rendered":"Crosstown (Miriam Kruishoop, 2013) USA"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reviewed by Robin Eriksson. Viewed at Santa Barbara Film Festival 2013.<\/p>\n

\"\"This story is made in\u00a0down town\u00a0Los angeles and it’s about two families that comes from\u00a0different\u00a0places and gangs. The film opens up with a guy getting\u00a0totally beat up by a couple of other kids, after a while they stops and\u00a0applause\u00a0\u00a0him and that was his ticket into a street gang. The guys name was Beto, and it don’t take long before he starts to deal drugs and other stuff for his gang. In that time he also got invited to join the army, but Beto refuses. Couple of days later Jesus ( Betos father ) finds him dealing drugs on the street, \u00a0Jesus walks up to\u00a0his\u00a0son and force him to join the army in hope to get green cards for the whole family as the army promised. So Beto joins the army\u00a0believing\u00a0that he’s doing the right thing for his family.<\/p>\n

It\u00a0doesn’t\u00a0take long before the family get the\u00a0message\u00a0that Beto “died for his country”. That’s the point when the movie make a turn. The movie is more about Jesus other son and Betos younger brother Angel. Angel were one of these\u00a0peaceful kids that liked to play soccer and go to school and he also met a girl called Jazmine. Jazmines father is a police officer and he forces Jazmine to stop seeing Angel because he’s\u00a0\u00a0Hispanic and living in a lower class area of Los Angeles, and as a police he knows that it could be bad for Jazmine. And Jazmines father turns out to have right this time. Angel joining the same gang as Beto was a member for after he gets the\u00a0message\u00a0about Betos death, \u00a0he starting to shave his head and get tattoos. Angel and Jazsmine do what ever they can to meet each other, they are going to public restrooms and other “secret” places so nobody else could see them. When Angel in some point starting to get a little distance from her, Jazmine doing the only thing that she\u00a0shouldn’t\u00a0do, she joins the gang too so that she could get closer to him.<\/p>\n

So this is a story is about how life could be for some families in Los angeles, and how life can change for your whole\u00a0family when you join a gang.\u00a0\u00a0But of course the movie shows the true face of what is like to be an illegal immigrant family “over 30% of illegal immigrants were promised of receiving papers and green cards if their young relatives joined the U.S. military but they were denied later\u201d,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reviewed by Robin Eriksson. Viewed at Santa Barbara Film Festival 2013. This story is made in\u00a0down town\u00a0Los angeles and it’s about two families that comes from\u00a0different\u00a0places and gangs. The film opens up with a guy getting\u00a0totally beat up by a couple of other kids, after a while they stops and\u00a0applause\u00a0\u00a0him and that was his ticket […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2336,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,191],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films","category-santa-barbara-film-festival-2013"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2336"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}