As a way of distracting myself as I wait for the airing of the next BSG episode (just a little more than two hours away!), I decided I’d share my thoughts on a movie I saw this last week with the Awesome (Edward James) Olmos starring and directing.
The movie of which I speak is American Me (1992). I’d never seen it but it has been on my list of things to see for a number of years. I found it this week for a bargain price at a local store, picked it up, and watched it later that night.
It was an impressive movie, terribly brutal — something that viewers are warned of from the beginning — but the violence (of the street and prison variety) was neither gratuitous nor sensationalized. The film looked and played almost like a documentary in some respects.
Olmos, who has shown a knack for cutting to the psychological quick in his direction, holds nothing back in this his directorial debut, creating a film that is both powerful and unsettling in what appears to be an honest and unflinching look at the cycle of gang violence.
This is not a movie for the family, nor the faint of heart, but I found it enlightening and think Olmos should be incredibly proud of this work.
Yes, I'll admit it. I love Battlestar Galactica, Dune, Star Trek, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Macs, iPods, NASA, Wii, Xbox ... and about a dozen other things that 
qualify me for geek status. Oh, and then there's my love for all things Longhorn and the NFL...
