First time director and University of Texas student Barbara Eden's film
Inside America is one that has the look and feel of a documentary, and that's far from a criticism. It's an unflinching and often uncomfortable look at the disparate lives of a handful of teenagers in a Brownsville, Texas high school, as they struggle for identity and survival in a cultural morass of racism, crime, and class conflicts. The film offers few solutions to its exposure of societal wounds, instead choosing to expose the harsh truths about its subjects.
The film focuses on six teens -- Patty (Patty Barrera), a young Latina who's barely surviving school and pinning the hopes of her future on her troubled boyfriend Carlos (Carlos Benavides), who's in the country illegally, working at a drive-through tortilla factory, and slowly getting more and more embroiled in an escalating gang conflict. At the other end of...
Inside America is one that has the look and feel of a documentary, and that's far from a criticism. It's an unflinching and often uncomfortable look at the disparate lives of a handful of teenagers in a Brownsville, Texas high school, as they struggle for identity and survival in a cultural morass of racism, crime, and class conflicts. The film offers few solutions to its exposure of societal wounds, instead choosing to expose the harsh truths about its subjects.
The film focuses on six teens -- Patty (Patty Barrera), a young Latina who's barely surviving school and pinning the hopes of her future on her troubled boyfriend Carlos (Carlos Benavides), who's in the country illegally, working at a drive-through tortilla factory, and slowly getting more and more embroiled in an escalating gang conflict. At the other end of...
- 3/16/2011
- by TK
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