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1Feb12
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This has definitely become my favourite film by Buñuel. it's odd how much it resembles Italian neorealist films (Buñuel being famous for his surrealism) but it's definitely one of the harshest comments in the decade about poverty, marginality and their consequences. It's also interesting to see a film that reflects the Latin American situation at the time.
There is no justice! Does this have to do with decades of imperialism and rape in Mexico? Everything in this film is dead end, there is no yellow brick road to be seen!
Una de las mayores joyas de Buñuel. El México desgarrado y subterráneo que nadie quería ver.
This is one of the most pessimistic and bitter films I've ever seen... Reminded me of Germany Year Zero.
Emma Sordo's class at Florida International University is showing this fillm. Does anyone know where I can find this film online?
Bunuel's masterpiece is possibly the best urban crime film ever, a devastating and graphic depiction of poverty and juvenile delinquency in Mexico City. Peppered with the director's signature dream sequences, this is one of the most unforgettable, influential, and under-seen films of all time.
I almost did not recognise this under its translated title, it is almost universally known as Los Olvidados! I had the pleasure of seeing a screening of this in Bristol several years ago and it is surely one of the most powerful films I have ever seen. I have never seen a better film dealing with the same subject
My favorite Bunuel by far. I actually loaded this onto my computer as a video file with my outdated (yet handy) All-In-Wonder tv-in, then had a friend of mine translate it and added the subtitles myself. If you are looking to watch this movie, holler at your dude and I can probably hit you with it via SendSpace.
Buñuel's magnum opus. one of the most crude and heart-breaking stories ever told about children growing up in the slums of a corrupt, violent, and indifferent metropolis.