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La Soga Starring Manny Perez

Written by Jonathan Jacobs

La Soga (The Butcher’s Son) presents a story that mirrors border towns across the Mexican-U.S. border every day. Illegal immigration represents a massive security issue and causes a bitter cultural divide here in America. The side of the story that is rarely told is what happens when illegal immigrants that are convicted criminals are deported to their home countries. What happens to them and how are they repatriated into Caribbean, Central or South American society? La Soga is a film directed by Josh Crook that attempts to answer these questions in the most graphic way possible.

Luisito (Manny Perez) is known as “La Soga”, or the butcher’s son. Raised by his father until he turned ten, Luis grew up in a contemptuous neighborhood riddled with drug dealers and lousy criminals. His environment led to personal tragedy when a malicious criminal Rafa (Paul Calderon) murdered his father. This event caused a major course change in Luis’ life. From that moment forward he devoted himself to capturing or killing drug dealers and their peddlers.

The plot is immediately fast-forwarded twenty years into the future, now the present. Luis works for General Colon (Juan Fernandez), head of the Dominican secret police. General Colon’s objective is to eradicate most drug lords from the streets of his country. To do so he capitalizes on Luis’ lifelong quest for vengeance and redemption. He turns La Soga’s caustic nature into a full-blown wildfire. Luis has no mercy for drug smugglers. He kills them on site and takes no prisoners. This is truly the work of a ruthless killer, albeit one contracted by his own government.

Before his father’s murder Luis had a best friend that left for New York to start a new life. In the middle of his struggle against crime Jenny reemerges in his life. She is almost instantly in love with him. This mostly occurs because she thinks he is a crime fighter, not a cold-blooded executioner. Convinced of his own righteousness, Luis does not understand the difference until he uncovers General Colon’s betrayal. Jenny is portrayed as innocent and good-natured. Luis charms her and she falls hard for his do-gooding persona.

La Soga’s political point is that deported aliens often return home as criminals. They my have no choice but this often leads to drug smuggling and chaos on the streets. Luis understands how to handle this sort of delinquency but how can it be stopped before it ever begins?

Though La Soga is not my cup of Constant Comet, that is to say cup of tea, it is an action-packed suspenseful thriller. It is a twisted morality tale full of surprises. It is worth mentioning Manny Perez not only plays La Soga, he also wrote the script and co-produced the show. It is obvious he poured everything he has into making the production a success. Some will be turned off by the violence and blurred lines between morality and uncivilized murderousness, but it makes the film thought-provoking and difficult to forget. I highly recommend La Soga as a thrill-ride for viewers that want to watch an exciting, often unpredictable film.