“Violent Cockfighting!…There’s More at Stake than Just Money!”
The eighteen-year-old son of a well-known cockfighter prepares for his first big match, all the while learning valuable lessons about life, love, lust, and what it takes to be a man in this world.
Although we don’t get to see any actual cockfighting for about an hour, the engrossing multiple human dramas (including a vertically challenged young man’s obsession with his employer’s vivacious daughter, a father introducing his son to the dangers of loose women, a husband and wife trying to overcome infidelity, and a prostitute determined to make it to Mexico someday) fill the time nicely. Whenever one plotline starts wearing thin, don’t worry, a new one is right around the corner.
And when the cockfighting does start, replete with extensive slow-motion sequences and plenty of disgruntled roosters, the stories converge admirably and all loose ends are tied up. There’s even a blood-soaked shootout in the old cockfighting barn to add an exclamation point to the proceedings.
I can’t believe this movie exists. Watch it if you can.
by Thomas Scalzo | Source: World Video Pictures VHS
19 Mar 2006 11:01 AM | Submit Comment
