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Paco was the ultimate stone in Miklo + everyone's shoe (**Spoilers)

posted 12 years ago by housemusic80
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1. Paco instigated the whole scenario where Miklo smashed Spiders back window. Spider wanted revenge and *beep* up Cruz's back.
2. After carving spider Miklo stops Paco from killing him. Miklo gets shot by spider and instead shoots and kills Spider with Paco's gun. Miklo ends up going to the can.
3. Paco becomes a narc. Paco busts the PCP lab and in turn Clavo's money gets lost. Because of the bust Popeye attempts to payback Clavo by docking 1/3 of all the paroled carnales checks. (**Miklo is one of the paroled carnales.)
4. After they plan the heist without Popeye, Popeye drops the dime. Paco thinks a drug deal is going down at Zody's, instead its a heist. Paco gets into a shootout with Miklo and his crew. Miklo gets stranded, tries to get away, Paco shoots his leg off.

The one part of the movie that I really dislike is when at the end Miklo is talking to Paco and tells him he will always be his brother. If I was Miklo I would've smiled at Paco, after Paco told him that "You used me". Miklo should've answered, "Payback's a bitch". "How could you use your own flesh and blood?" Paco asked.. "The same way you shoot your flesh and blood's *beep* leg off." Personally I think Miklo should've gotten someone to shoot Paco's leg off. Using Paco to take out the rival prison gangs was not a satisfactory revenge in my opinion. But a movie is a movie :)

[–] Jack2979 12 years ago

Those points come to light at the end when Paco and Cruz are talking. He realizes that it was all his fault - everything.

Hey Linda..........You're a bitch!

[–] Gmork76 12 years ago

Miklo found himself and his home in San Quentin so he seem pretty satisfied with that.

[–] PreachCaleb 9 years ago

After they plan the heist without Popeye, Popeye drops the dime. Paco thinks a drug deal is going down at Zody's, instead its a heist. Paco gets into a shootout with Miklo and his crew. Miklo gets stranded, tries to get away, Paco shoots his leg off.

Um, how is he the stone in a murder robbery?

Let's be bad guys.

[–] alice-dukesohazzardfan 9 years ago

he continued to be the stone in Miklo's life by shooting him in the leg, therefore, making him lose the leg altogether

[–] PreachCaleb 9 years ago

Because Miklo was involved in a robbery homicide. That's his own fault.

[–] Chrisbc-1 8 years ago

I think that was the whole point of the movie. Paco realizes in the end that his arrogance and pride ruined the lives of his cousins.

However...

I recently watched this movie for the first time in 10 years and have an older perspective.

Now as an older person I feel ultimately Miklo is to blame. Those who go looking for trouble are going to find trouble. Milko could have told Paco "no" multiple times leading up to the spider incident. Milko didn't have to join the Vatos Locos, Milko didn't have to smash Spider's window. Milko's biggest flaw was that he blamed everyone but himself. Not once did he ever reflect on his own poor decisions. Paco was able to blame himself for his past misdeeds, Milko wasn't.

The real victim in this story was Cruz. He was rather innocent and seemed well on his way to becoming an art professor or a well respected artist in the community and beyond.

[–] vicky_lc2001 (1907) 8 years ago

I felt bad for how Miklo ended up. It's a strange twist of faith that the predictable bad seed here turns good and the good one turns bad. Miklo turns bad because of Paco's instigation and actions, perhaps he was too weak to resist Paco's charm & machismo. But Miklo was a lost soul, looking for a sense of identity and belonging, and it took little to nudge him to make him feel like he could probably finally belong. But as bad as it was, without Paco's influence in prison, he found himself belonging somewhere. i just wish he could've found that somewhere else.