Unsparing documentary plots the roots and realities of life in L.A.'s deadliest gangs
di Betsy Sharkey The Los Angeles Times
The image of a glittering downtown Los Angeles skyline turned upside down, which opens Stacy Peralta's sobering "Crips and Bloods: Made in America," is both striking and unnerving. With that image, Peralta telegraphs a theme that will resonate in chilling ways throughout his new documentary -- that geography matters and that we are heading into a world that's been upended.
Just as you settle in for what you hope will be new insights into the much-parsed history of the deadly Crips and Bloods gangs, Peralta's geographic dissection of their rise through aerial maps detailing their areas of control, he sends us back in time. [...]
di Betsy Sharkey, articolo completo (3448 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Los Angeles Times 6 febbraio 2009
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