Cebalord Very best movie i ever watch

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GazerRise Fantastic!

FuzzyTagz If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

Chris Silver Los Olvidados- Mexico 1950 This is the 17th movie on the list.Los Olvidados. The young and the damned. At first I couldn't tell, is this "The Young. The Damned" or the young are also damned.I feel the story tells both. In this movie, it's not the production or big director that can be commented on, its the story. The young are damned in this movie of depression era Mexico. Even the Spanish in the movie is pretty bad. The story is of young people who are run-aways and have no place to live or food to eat. It centers on one boy's struggle. That's all I'll say.The young. The Damned. The story centers around a young boy who is trying is hardest to be a young boy. He doesn't know where he fits. He is the young. Everyone else in the story is the damned. Even the boy's mother sins in the most obvious of ways. Everyone here commits a sin, other than small eyes. It's terrible, but the story does live up to the young and the damned.Also the story just ends. It's very abrupt so don't expect much.SilverRating

helloroseeee The director of Spanish descent was able to capture the essence and attitudes of the troubled youth in Mexico in the 1950s in a genuine and raw way. As the film makes it clear that poverty is not the reason for high crime rates in the youth of Mexico, it causes the audience to ask what the root of the problem is. The choices made by the films main characters are made so that its viewers are put in a situation where they can really see the seriousness of the issues the film means to address. The issues the characters deal with are not limited to Mexicans, but are on a human level so that anyone should be able to react to the film's rather dark themes. The film is timeless and the problems faced can be applied to problems in modern society in all societies. The consequences of neglect and deprivation of the young is portrayed powerfully in this chilling tale.

migueljennifer At the beginning of this film the characters are introduced as complete trouble makers. This makes you wonder about the writer's intentions. It might seem as if Buñuel was trying to depict Mexican youth in a bad light but when you know the facts of the living conditions of the majority of Mexican youth, you understand he's just painting a portrait of reality. This film is a real eye opener. We usually tend to assume people make bad decisions because they chose to be bad people but this film helps you see there might be more to it. Young criminals become criminals because most of the time they don't know any better. Their family life is broke and they have no one to guide them. All Buñuel fans should see this film, it is quite different from some of his other works like "The Exterminating Angel" and "The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie". Unlike those films, "Los Olvidados" has very little surrealism, so it's interesting to see Buñuel's version of "realism".

jimmytimmy1 "Los Olvidados" shows that it is often the social ills already in existence in our societies, an example being the complete lack of care and love Pedro's mother has for Pedro in most of this film, that can contribute to creating children who have social deficits – often creating anti-social and sociopathic personalities and tendencies – such as that portrayed by the characters of "El Jaibo", Pedro, and Julian. "Los Olvidados" makes it abundantly clear that even those people in society that bring forth the façade of being normal law-abiding citizens, such as Don Carmelo, the blind man, are corrupted in one form or another – Don Carmelo is a pedophile - and again, one can infer that this is due to the social imperfections of the people that were around Don Carmelo when he was a youth. To me, "Los Olvidados" showed a dystopian society – very much like the film "A Clockwork Orange", in which gangs of morally twisted youths know of nothing better else to do with their time than to take out their frustrations on everyone and anything they can. I also saw that "Los Olvidados" does not just show a hopelessly corrupt world where everyone in society has personal demons and where all hope is lost. "Los Olvidados" also shows the positive side of human nature, such as when Pedro's mother started to show signs of caring for Pedro after he was sent to the rural school, a quality that she did not show earlier in the film. Another example of the presence of moral goodness in people is when the school's principal did not punish Pedro for killing the chickens and even understanding what might have led Pedro to behave in such a violent manner and even making sure that Pedro is fed so as to enable him to think and act more logically.