Solemplex To me, this movie is perfection.

Raetsonwe Redundant and unnecessary.

Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Catangro After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

elvircorhodzic LOS OLVIDADOS is a brutal display of juvenile crime, poverty and misunderstanding in a broken society. The film was made with lots of love, realism and drama. The fact is that human life is the least cost in terms of bare survival.The director shows us a completely degraded society where poverty is commonplace, delinquency and crime are ways of survival, and children have long been lost. Everything is presented in a kind of vicious circle within which we can see the shocking violence, coincidence and irony. No character in the movie can not pick sympathy. Even the figure of the mother, who at times certainly provokes disgust. Survival is not by any means well.The Director attacking us with real picture of poverty and misery in which the spark of life slightly off. This is certainly not the general madness. This is a representation of the "disturbed" state of consciousness induced by society. I live in a messy and sick society. I understand relationships and therefore understand this movie. Social solutions are absent. Positive messages there. The Society in many cases lead man on the edge of the border through which it can not go further, and back can not be restored. Of course, I never excuses violence, but this is not about individuals or psychopaths.

morrison-dylan-fan Whilst listing items on Ebay recently with my dad,I discovered that he had picked up a title by co-writer/(along with Luis Alcoriza/Max Aub/Juan Larrea & Pedro De Urdimalas) directing auteur Luis Buñuel,which led to me getting ready to join the kids on the streets.The plot:Escaping from a juvenile jail, El Jaibo runs back to a Mexican city overrun by his former gang members.Reuniting with the gang,Jaibo tells them all that he will get his revenge on the person who acted as a secret mole for the police.Pushing young gang member Pedro around,Jaibo soon locates ex-gang member Julián,who he suspects worked with the cops.Pretending that his arm is broke,Jaibo walks up to Julián,and reveals that his sling actually contains a large rock,that Jalibo starts attacking him with.Killing Julián,Jaibo tells Pedro that he cannot go to the cops over the killing,since he will tell the cops that Pedro was an accomplice to Julián's death.After witnessing the horrific killing,Pedro tries to leave the life of gangs behind,but soon discovers that Jaibo will not allow him to leave his turf behind.View on the film:Aiming for a rougher texture than the Italian Neo-Realist movement at the time, Luis Buñuel & cinematographer Gabriel Figueroa boil the title in a bleak Film Noir pool,with Buñuel giving the movie the bare minimum of light which allows for the raw world that Jaibo and Pedro inhabit to be pulled open,as Jalibo is completely wrapped in shadows,whilst the moments of light/freedom that Pedro tries to reach are blocked. Locking Pedro and Jaibo on a path of doom, Buñuel and Figueroa show every grain of dirt in their rotten world with excellent,long tracking shots which reveal the burnt-out hopes of all the street kids.Rubbing salt into the Film Noir wounds, Buñuel gives the title a deliciously surreal touch,which allows for an unsettling nightmarish streak to be cut across the film.Keeping miles away from the "aww shucks" kids running around in Hollywood at the time,the writers show a tremendous bravery in showing the nastiest sides of the kids,with Jaibo being given no excuses for the brutality of his actions,whilst Pedro struggles to stop Jaibo from destroying the brief light of hope on his horizon.Treating everyone in an even-handed manner,the writers attack the adults in the title with a vicious fury,as Pedro's mum is filled with a deep hatred for her son,whilst a "kind" blind man is shown to keep disturbing features hidden from the residences of the city,as Pedro & Jaibo discover that they are the young and the damned.

StephenBradleyJones First off, I think Luis Bunuel is amazing. He really took a risk in making this film. Perhaps being from another country (Spain) gave him the objectivity of a scientist. He had quite a backlash when this film was released. This film doesn't beat around the bush when it comes to the dehumanization that occurs on the streets. There are complex characters on display. It makes it hard to simply point the finger and say that a character 'should do this or that'. Products of their brutal environment, it makes it hard to pass judgement on them. Parts of this film try to address the idea of reclaiming your identity, but the storyline doesn't ever see this to fruition as in the Maori based movie "Once were warriors". Difficult subject, but Bunuel's work is always a worthwhile see.

Samantha_Ross An unfortunate truth, just as the name states: if you haven't seen this movie in a while, you probably have forgotten the plot. While the film is good, it's not memorable. Los olvidados tells the story of juvenile delinquents in Mexico. Through this film, Luis Bunel depicts the lives of poor kids without fathers, an inconvenient truth for those people who would rather live blindly to the fact that poverty exists. The interesting thing, however, is the fact that Bunel's film was not well liked, but when it won awards, he was lauded. On another note, Freud would have definitely gotten his kicks from this film. Lots to analyze. Overall:great story, great film! Must watch!