From KCRW, I'm Bob Carlson, and this is unfictional.

There's a movie from 1993 directed by Taylor Hackford, called Blood in Blood Out.

It's a crime drama with some B movie acting.

But it has a cult film status, especially

in East Los Angeles where the film is set.

So what's the difference between East LA and LA?

It's a whole different country.

Hope it works out better for you here than in Vegas.

It's got to, it's home. You see the characters passing by colorful street murals and you see shops and

neighborhoods the way they were then and there's a scene early on where one character is airbrushing a detailed Aztec

painting onto the hood of a classic low-writer car.

This is Ketsalquatu, the great Aztec poet king.

He ruled the kingdom of Aslan that was from Mexico all the way up here to Calipas.

He's actually ma'am sota.

Pay attention, Pelau. I'm going to teach you all about Aslan, because this vatos

coming back someday to reclaim the Rasa's kingdom.

Then a little later, the three main characters take the car on a cruise around the neighborhood.

All right, but this then we got to go down Brooklyn and Whittier, say?

They stop at a tall pine tree on top of a hill.

That tree is, he East Close to me.

It's good to be home.

It's a real tree and still stands in a residential neighborhood between Boyle Heights and East L.A. It's called El Pino, and it's been a local

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