Blood In Blood Out (Bound By Honor) Part 3

Film Narrative

The film's story is told throughout many years. It jumps around through time periods as the actors are shown getting older and older as the film goes on. But the story is being told throughout many years. The film is set up by plot sequence. The plot evolves a lot as the film progresses; the films length would make it hard for many people to follow the story as it goes on. I've seen this film countless times and today I sometimes still have trouble finding out what happened to certain characters. Our engagement with the characters should make us feel close to the characters in many ways. The use of close ups make us feel like part of the film and like we are right there with all of the rest of the characters.

The characters and their issues are all represented through some kind of money or drug problem. Throughout the entire movie that is all that they talk about. Perhaps it may be because they are always in prison and that's all they deal with in there, but even as soon as the movie starts, the main characters mother is talking about money and how she needs it. So that's one of the ways the characters solve their problems. Another way is through people in general; in the prison where people are the strongest people they have ever been. They always want to trade the main character to the White Gang, because his skin color is white, even though he is Mexican-American on the inside. The style of the acting seems very real. It seems real, just as all good films do.
The performance is also very well played by all actors, some of which did other movies as well, but are most known for their role in this film. The meaning is created with the camera angles by making some of the shots seem more superior than the others by the way they were shot

. The meaning is also created by the editing of the film. The time periods that this film took place in show the strength of all the characters and what they have gone through. Every time many years pass on by, the shot is established with the year introducing the scene. Telling the audience the main character has spent an amount of years in prison since the last time the year was shown. The lighting is just a big part of the film as the editing. The lightning also shows the strength of he characters in some certain scenes. In one perticular scene the main character is shown in prison talking to his cousin who is a police officer. So they are against each other, but the director used over the shoulder shots and darkness on their faces to show the emotions between the two. The music and the sounds in this film are a huge part of the movie. Throughout the entire film, there is always dramatic music playing, or music that fits the scene; which is usually just Spanish guitar stuff, or some kind of wind music. But it definitely plays a big part in the film, showing the scene and foreshadowing what will happen next in the film. The location of which the film was shot surely plays an important role in the film. Everything was shot on location in Los Angeles, and in San Quentin state prison. Many of the convicts shown in the background were not extras however, they were just regular convicts doing time in the prison, and happened to be there while the film was being shot. The only symbols used in the film are symbols of God to show courage within the characters and to show that they do still believe even in hard times during the film. 
No real meaning was created in the film which any kind of visual effects except for maybe blood when people died to sell it easier. The information used in the film that I found emotional was probably just the fact that most of the background convicts were really there doing time, and were not just there because of the filming of this movie.