Los Olvidados Aka The Forgotten and The Young and the Damned
by Luis Buñuel
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DVD Cover Information
Director: Luis BuñuelDVD: Region Code 1
Audio: Spanish (Unknown); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Original Language)
Format: Black & White, Import, NTSC, Subtitled
Running Time: 90 unknown-units
Published: 2004
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: TELEVISA
Product features:
- Region 1 NTSC - Spanish Audio with English Subtitles
- Cover and Menus in Spanish
Movie Reviews of Los Olvidados Aka The Forgotten and The Young and the Damned
Movie Review: I wish Bunuel had done more realism - the best of his Mexican period
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a deeply affecting film about the poor in Mexico City, in I believe about 1950. The principal protagonist is a young boy in a large disordered family, whose promiscuous mother oversees alone; he is unloved, but struggling to do the right thing and full of rage. One of his friends is an evil young criminal, whom a gang of kids looks up to as someone who controls his own fate. He is one of those destructive personalities that, if you have the misfortune to encounter intimately, will leave his mark. There are many other characters, all finely drawn and relentless in their brutal realism, including an abandoned peasant boy and his abusive caretaker, a blind musician full of hate.
The young boy is seeking to find what to do with his life and even gets some help from an institution run by a good man, who gets him a job as an apprentice in a silver smith's shop. It is a way ahead for the boy and he takes to it with great energy and hope. Of course, things don't work out the way they should, in what can only be called a catastrophe that no one will ever know about. I don't want to reveal the plot, of course, but Bunuel serves up an awful tragedy with total honesty and an utter lack of sentimentality. I almost wept at the end.
Bunuel adds many subtle twists to the film, such as the criminal's affair with a woman, perhaps a passing on of his bad genes. There is also the blind musician, exulting in death, a laugh that entered my nightmares when I first saw the film 30 years ago. The images are unforgettable, such as the dream of the boy with his mother, when she is offering him meat only to have the criminal emerge from under the bed to take it.
REcommended with enthusiasm. This is a great, even pioneering film that does not end with a happy ending or indulge in any hollywoodian moralizing.
Summary of Los Olvidados Aka The Forgotten and The Young and the Damned
Black & White - Import - Region 1 - NTSCCover and Menu in Spanish - Spanish Audio with English Subtitles
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.
Winner of two Cannes Film Festival awards, Luis Bunuel's Los Olividados (The Forgotten and The Young and the Damned) was the director's first international box-office success and the beginning of a new era.
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