Artist in Person "First a word about the title. 'Crasy' with an 's' not a 'z.'Gangster's spelling, not Webster's. A film on the life and thoughts of themembers of a Long Beach, California Samoan Crip gang-the Sons of Samoa Westside32nd Street Gang-My Crasy Life has at its core a commitment, radical in itssimplicity: to respect the voice of its 'subjects.'" (Jean-Pierre Gorin)Gorin offers the camera as a stage and a mirror, with the collaboration of theboys, who perform themselves as they see themselves, and sometimes as they wishto be seen. Gorin also accompanies a beat cop whose determination to save atleast one boy's future takes him all the way to the Islands. It is there that theSons of Samoa go to cool out when the heat is on. But despite a sentimentalattachment, for these boys the gang has been family, culture, and role model froma very early age; home is where the "homies" are, and they demand thatwe respect that.