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Plot: A gang of slum kids resort to deliquency as a defense against poverty and societal indifference.

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  • 5.0 Stars
    MCT:
    September 7, 2008
    Aggressive,iconic,mesmerizing in every frame.Bunuel's depiction of the grim social life of a bunch of street smarts and other lost souls is hallucinating.A staggering finale for a maleficent future prediction.
  • 5.0 Stars
    MCT:
    August 2, 2008
    Excelente en todos los sentidos, desde los personajes hasta la forma de la narracion; va mucho mas alla de ser un tipico drama mexicano.
  • 5.0 Stars
    MCT:
    July 19, 2008
    Bunuel's best film. Excellent, sad, depressing, and so real. Neo-Realism at its finest. BEST MEXICAN FILM EVER MADE.

    100/100
  • 4.5 Stars
    MCT:
    July 13, 2008
    Fantastic use of melodrama and confused designation of the moral center. That young man, he's just gorgeous and surprisingly sympathetic.
  • 5.0 Stars
    MCT:
    June 4, 2008
    Declarada Patrimonio de la Humanidad por la UNESCO, Los Olvidados (México, 1950) es una de esas películas que se resisten al paso del tiempo, sigue impresionando cada vez que se transmite por televisión. Confieso que, en esas ocasiones, aprovecho para revisar este crudo retrato de la pobreza que se vivía (y desafortunadamente se sigue viviendo) a principios de los 1950 en la Ciudad de México. Roberto Cobo ofrecía una estupenda actuación en el papel de ?El Jaibo?, el ?villano? que se dedica a hacerle la vida imposible a Pedro, interpretado por el joven Alfonso Mejía, quien incluso tuvo una pequeña participación en el filme de Michael Curtiz, Jim Thorpe (1951), protagonizada por Burt Lancaster.

    ¿Qué es lo que atrae todavía de este filme? A partir de una elemental historia de venganzas y asesinatos a traición, conseguía tratar también problemáticas sociales sumamente fuertes. Buñuel consiguió una de sus obras maestras, gracias al efectivo realismo con el que ambientó todo su filme, muy influido por el Neorrealismo italiano de aquella época. El trabajo de ?scouting? en la búsqueda de locaciones fue excelente, muchas de ellas situadas en el Centro Histórico de la Ciudad de México. Para conseguir a su efectivo reparto juvenil, Buñuel también imitó a los realizadores italianos: recurrir a actores no profesionales a través de ?castings? callejeros.

    Ayudado por el gran ojo de Gabriel Figueroa, Buñuel pudo dotar a cada plano de texturas y claros-obscuros dramáticos, al servicio de un guión intenso y con un ritmo que en ningún momento decae. Lo mejor, fue que Buñuel introdujo su clásico tono surrealista, en escenas delirantes como los sueños de Pedro, la agonía del Jaibo, etc., o incluso en sus mismos personajes, como ese detestable y vengativo músico ciego, Don Carmelo (Miguel Inclán, excelente), sin olvidar el fetichismo y esa injustificada crueldad buñueliana hacia los animales (las gallinas masacradas en la granja por Pedro).
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  • 5.0 Stars
    MCT:
    February 25, 2008
    Amazing and brutal Bunuel film. Really great and I'm certain it was very influencial. Highly recommended.
  • 4.0 Stars
    MCT:
    February 1, 2008
    A very crude and surreal vision of the mexican youth, full of hopless or chance to a happy life, a excellent testimony even for the date.
  • 5.0 Stars
    MCT:
    January 8, 2008
    The ultimate plot twist of this movie is the poster itself, I mean it was really deceiving as I watched this movie without knowing anything. One of the most intriguing and brutal neorelism I've ever seen. The topic matter was handled with care, what was needed was portrayed and it was fleshed out daringly. Watching the alternate cut, I had to say he was utterly brilliant in his choice, the entire relity and the depiction of the slums and their continuing poverty and how their life just goes in a circle or just locks itself in stalemate was tastefully done without it being nauseating or generic. One of cinema's most daring film by a daring film-maker.
  • 5.0 Stars
    MCT:
    January 7, 2008
    Brutal and cynical, Buñuel's film proves that he's equally adept at neorealism as surrealism. The surrealist parts of the film doesn't undermine but complements the main neorealism approach. Not many film made even today has as much balls to portray such a subject without such detachment and relentless honesty, not to mention the insight and maturity with which it is imbued. A very powerful film with a dose of black humor.
  • 5.0 Stars
    MCT:
    November 16, 2007
    a searing indictment of poverty and document of the street life. pedro, ojitos and metche will break your heart. i won't soon forget this
  • 4.5 Stars
    MCT:
    September 21, 2007
    A tragic movie about the lives of abandoned children and delinquents... it simply makes your heart ache.
  • 5.0 Stars
    MCT:
    September 10, 2007
    Si Vittorio de Sicca con "el ladrón de bicicletas", había mostrado su arte mediante el movimiento neorrealista.
    Faltaba la respuesta de Buñuel, no nada más la llenó de ralismo y brutalidad, sino que la aderezó con un toque surrealista, impresionante en todos los renglones, señala a toda autoridad del país, retrata a un México que se sigue pareciendo mucho al actual.
    Considerada la mejor película mexicana de todos los tiempos, ganadora en cannes en 1951 (su año de lanzamiento fué en 1950).
    Buñuel muestra que la pobreza es el arma pricipal de la corrupción y exterminadora de toda inocencia.
    Un clásico del cine mundial.
  • 5.0 Stars
    MCT:
    July 19, 2007
    Una critica desgarradora que nos muestra el otro lado de la cultura moderna, no solo del mexico de los años 50's sino de toda la sociedad. Ese lado son las personas que viven en los suburbios de las grandes ciudades, por que ellos son los olvidados.
  • 5.0 Stars
    MCT:
    July 14, 2007
    !Por fin aparece esta movie en esta pinche página! Para muchos la mejor película del cine mexicano. Buñuel es un maestro y este es (en mi opinión) su mejor trabajo.
  • 5.0 Stars
    MCT:
    July 14, 2007
    Buñuel's masterpiece is also one of the most crude and heart-breaking stories ever told about children growing up on the slums of a corrupt, violent, blind and messy city. one of the most depressive documents ever produced.
  • 3.5 Stars
    MCT:
    July 6, 2007
    great use of sound during many sequences (ex. guilty conscience dream sequence). i really enjoyed this film but be warned, the ending is depressing (think: bicycle thief x's 5)
  • 3.5 Stars
    MCT:
    July 4, 2007
    Bunuel is one of those directors I know that I'm supposed to like but rarely do. This is a little more accessible than some of his other films- Discreet Charm, Obscure Object for examples.

    This still has a little Bunuel weirdness but is mostly a straight-up, depressing tale of the spiraling effect of poverty.
  • 4.5 Stars
    MCT:
    June 20, 2007
    Thinking again now...it's surprising how this movie can reflect the actual poverty of some countries in the world..and it is from..and it is from 1952 maybe? More than 50 years and a movie stills actual, it's a shame that isn't for proudable reasons.
  • Want To See
    MCT:
    June 13, 2007
    aka "The Forgotten Ones; The Young and the Damned." Recommended by a friend. The title alone makes me want to see it.
  • 5.0 Stars
    MCT:
    June 7, 2007
    El Jaibo, un adolescente, escapa de la correccional y se reune en el barrio con sus amigos. Junto con Pedro y otro niño, trata de asaltar a Don Carmelo. Días después, el Jaibo mata en presencia de Pedro al muchacho que supuestamente tuvo la culpa de que lo enviaran a la correccional. A partir de este incidente, los destinos de Pedro y de el Jaibo estarán trágicamente unidos.
  • 5.0 Stars
    MCT:
    June 4, 2007
    This movie was very controversial because it showed the way the life of the poor children in mexico city on the 50s. It was the winner of the Cannes award on 1951. The story, photography, performances were incredible.
  • 4.5 Stars
    MCT:
    June 2, 2007
    Just a great social film that shows the living conditions of the poor in Mexico city.Unfortunately not much has changed..

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  • Rated: (Unrated)
  • Directed by: Luis Buñuel
  • Genres: Drama
  • Released: March 24, 1952
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