f i l m Price of Glory
Director : Carlos Avila
Cast : Jimmy Smits, Jon Seda, Clifton Collins Jr., Ernesto Hernandez, Maria del Mar, Ron Perlman, Paul Rodriguez
(New Line, 2000) Rated: PG-13 by Cynthia Fuchs
PopMatters Film and TV Editor
e-mail this article Interviews with Carlos Avila, Jon Seda, and Jimmy Smits His Three Sons P rice of Glory opens with a boxing match in Phoenix, Arizona, 1977. While the mostly Mexican/Latino ringside crowd yells and hoots, a young man takes a terrible beating. His trainer urges him on, his face is bruised and panicked, and the scene lurches into that boxing film cliche, the eight-frames-per-second knock-out punch: his jaw contorts, his blood flies, and he hits the floor. Hard. Cut to "13 years later," and the loser of that bout, Arturo Ortega (now grown up into Jimmy Smits, driving a station wagon), is a family man, taking his three young sons to their own boxing competitions. "Come on my little contenders," he smiles, as they run to him. "We got some rough-housing to do." This opening sequence sets up Price of Glory Price of Glory 's focus, and his sons are the conduit for his coming to terms with his own lost dreams and his continuing hopes for the future. | |
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