BOUND BY HONOR MOVIE
Hackford should be applauded for making a movie that is as intelligent as it is entertaining for giving us this metaphor of our modern predicament that doesn’t preach but does show the way to healing.īy fictionalizing gang names and the real-life participants in Mexican prison gangs, “Bound by Honor” transcends being a story about the ills plaguing barrio life and three kids who want nothing more than a cause they can die for-and takes in all families, whatever color. “American Me” director Edward James Olmos is an actor of note and a community activist to be admired, but a onetime director Taylor Hackford is a filmmaker with a body of work who deserves much more respect than to be written off by Turan as “embracing all manner of bogus emotional and dramatic situations.” That kind of dismissal of a leading American director whose courage and commitment to a film survived many years in the making is one of the reasons American cinema is lagging critically behind the rest of the international scene. But in their ultimate making, they are very different pictures. The 1,100 people in the audience at my screening wept openly through much of it and gave it a five-minute standing ovation.Īs a reader of The Times, I have followed the continual comparisons made between this and the movie “American Me.” In their early stages, when there was an overlapping of the same writer on both projects, the two movies may have been similar. It is a feast of sight and sound-poetry, music, dance and emotion-and possibly one of the most powerful and important films of the decade.
“Bound by Honor” is a riveting odyssey, rich with myth and unforgettable imagery.
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