DVD Mini Review - Chop Shop

Chop Shop is Ramin Bahrani's follow up to Man Push Cart. And like his previous film Chop Shop shows how some people are living on the edge in NYC. Alejandro (Alejandro Polanco) lives and works at an auto body shop in the Willets Point section of Queens.
He has big ideas and when his sister Isamar (Isamar Gonzalez) arrives he tries to act on them.

Alejandro is one tough cookie but things don't always go his way. He tries to be protective of Isamar but he isn't always successful at that either.

This is a very realistic look at the immigrant struggle in this country. When I think of Willets Point I think of Shea Stadium. I never knew that this was an area of so many downtrodden people. Chop Shop is a real eye opener and I highly recommend it.