Los Olvidados

Los Olvidados

  • Director: Luis Buñuel
  • Writer: Luis Alcoriza,Max Aub,Luis Buñuel
  • Countries of origin: Mexico
  • Language: Spanish
  • Release date: March 24, 1952
  • Aspect ratio: 1.37 : 1
  • Also known as: The Young and the Damned
  • Los Olvidados is a crime film directed by Luis Buñuel and starring Alfonso Mejía and Estela Inda.
    The film tells the fate of two teenagers who eventually die.

    Details

    • Release date March 24, 1952
    • Filming locations Estudios Tepeyac, Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
    • Production companies Ultramar Films

    Box office

    Gross worldwide

    $134,613

    Movie reviews

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    • By Jairo 2022-12-14 11:48:32

      untitled

      Buñuel was influenced by Desica's Shoe Shine Boy. This is a cruel film, and after watching it, I feel depressed and depressed. So it's not surprising that it was criticized and questioned by audiences and critics alike when it was released in Mexico. Buñuel once described: Many viewers came out of the theater after watching the film with expressions on their faces as if their parents had just returned from a funeral. Some friends never talked to him again after watching it......

    • By Rosalia 2022-11-17 04:35:02

      "The Forgotten People" Problem Society

      If there is a story like this: I saw that "yesterday" died, and I saw that "today" also died, and although I can't see the appearance of "tomorrow" today, we can know that the brain of "tomorrow" is all about Dead "yesterday" and "today" data. Then the future of this story as I understand it is also unclear. Perhaps it is a great tragedy with an infinite cycle of death. Because, there is a neglected lesion here, with no self-cleaning immune function, and no external force that can purify and...

    • By Dane 2022-10-25 17:50:05

      Effortless Classic

      Alfonso Mejia, who played Pedro, died on December 29 last year, the last of all the "forgotten people". According to the standard of 1951, this film is difficult to demand more in terms of plot design, plot control, characterization and ideological depth. Personally, I prefer the ending of the original version. Pedro and the police go after Jaibo at the same time. Out of morality, one out of law, the result is self-evident, because good people are inherently...

    • By Brain 2022-10-08 21:25:49

      Movie diary

      The film is short, but the cause and the ending are relatively complete. This is also an accusation against society. At the same time, the rich and big cities are more polarized and have no opportunity to receive education. Since witnessing the murder scene, the violent tendencies towards chickens and the fear of sticks have gradually escalated . The concept of teenagers has not been formed, so it has been swaying. Although the nature is good, threats, temptations, and fears have always existed...

    • By Josianne 2022-10-05 03:26:48

      Can't write short reviews

      Brunoel's 1950 film about troubled teenagers in Mexico. The film not only shows their "problems", but also highlights some of the reasons behind the problems, which in turn bring out the general confusion faced by the poor in Mexico at the time. The movie also describes the kindness in the hearts of several children under the label of "gangsters", implying that their evil actually has a lot of involuntary factors, and if the external society can give more kindness, it may bring those children....

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    • By Lola 2023-09-12 16:31:26

      10. Teenagers in the Mexican ghetto, except for the bully, every character has two sides. The film also describes the key to causing so many troubled teenagers, orphans, alcoholic fathers, and prostitute mothers. . This, this, there were enough problems at the bottom of Mexican society at that...

    • By Brionna 2023-09-07 19:33:10

      Show the real human nature for people to see. Human nature is contradictory, you may be a dutiful son to your mother, and you will wear a demon mask to others. And these are the real...

    • By Alia 2023-09-06 10:27:43

      In the future when income is very realistic and prices are very magical today, let's take a look at this film from 70 years...

    • By Horacio 2023-08-12 11:39:22

      The New Reality: Humanitarian Thought. I've never been very impressed with Mexico...

    • By Jovanny 2023-08-07 15:05:11

      "All the results are the same, they are dead before they are born." Two dreams, one out of body; one mirror image. Low-level poverty and low-level human nature, sometimes cause and effect each...

    Movie plot

    In Hollywood films, if teenagers commit crimes, there are always many objective reasons to justify them. The Mexican teenagers in this film have no such good luck. They are struggling in the web of poverty and cannot be freed. The protagonists of the film are two teenagers: Haibo has just been released from prison, and immediately controls the teenage gangsters on the street and commits murders everywhere; the younger Pedro admires...
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    Behind the scenes gags

    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...
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    Evaluation action

    Luis Buñuel made avant-garde films such as "Dogs of Andalus" and "The Golden Age" from 1928 to 1930, but he stopped making them between 1932 and 1947, and this "Forgotten Man" is his revival. A masterpiece of prestige. 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...
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    Movie quotes

    • Don Carmelo, el ciego: I hope they'll kill every one of them before they born!

    • Pedro: [addressing his mother, just before she leaves him at the Farm School] Just now you remember that I'm your son.

    • El director de la escuela granja: I was imagining that we could lock up misery, instead of the children.