The film refuses to be provocative or label the characters, but let the audience experience the scenes in the film. The director turns the camera to the modern city full of dirt and sin, and places his attention on those forgotten teenagers. The story of "The Destroyed Boy" has been deeply explored, and it has a fairly straightforward depiction of the icy cruelty of the real society and the killing and death it creates, but with a strong pessimistic tone. Actors are mostly non-professional teenagers. The film won the Best Director Award at the Cannes Film Festival.
Los Olvidados behind the scenes gags
2022-06-20 22:03
Extended Reading
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Don Carmelo, el ciego: I hope they'll kill every one of them before they born!
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Pedro: [addressing his mother, just before she leaves him at the Farm School] Just now you remember that I'm your son.