Sunday 12 December 2010

Los Olvidados (1950) The Forgotten Ones

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042804/

Movie
http://www.fileserve.com/file/J2pVXh7

Subtitles
English: http://www.fileserve.com/file/nfYwwKC
Brazil: http://www.fileserve.com/file/rV4YB2X

A group of juvenile delinquents live a violent and crime-filled life in the festering slums of Mexico City, and the morals of young Pedro are gradually corrupted and destroyed by the others
This film is perfect. It's the closest thing to artistic TRUTH that I've seen. And yes the characters are rotten but they break your heart. Just when you think Jaibo is one of the screens greatest villains, he tells a story about being abandened as a child, and seeing the beautiful face of a woman who looked like a saint who may or may not have been his mother. Powerful stuff. Never have I seen a more relentless and brutal film. It never shys away from the truth and try to sugar coat it. All the kids are complex. They're neither innocents or devils. The story of troubled youth and urban violence have been told countless of times, but this is the real deal and the measuring stick for all.



















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