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Lo que me llamó la atención – en conexción al progreso y la modernización de la ciudad de México – fue la atención a la belleza que da Buñuel. Hay dos escenas que viene a la mente. Hay una escena sin sonido en que un hombre desconocido solic…

Estoy de acuedo contigo que la pelicula en una manera mostraba que haya esperanza para el futuro. Originalmente despues la pelicula senti impotente y que no habia indicacion de esperanza. En el otra mano aunque Pedro fue matado al final el estaba trat…

I thought “Los Olvidados” was a great film. Even though it was very subversive and ahead of its time in a lot of ways, it was also very different from recent dramatic social commentary films in that it showed slumming Mexican life all from real charac…

Me gusta la película Los Olvidados mucho porque la trama es coherente y credible. Me parece que más realista que Aguila o sol pero al mismo tiempo, Aguila o sol es una comedía. Pienso que la película puede ser un forma de documentary porque los esc…

One of the most truly fascinating aspects of this film, as seen by a modern viewing audience, is the categorization of this film as a “Documentary”. Clearly the film is shot in a linear, narrative structure, with broken up sequencing of events, and makes no effort to appear candid (or at least doesn’t appear candid when viewed today). It would be interesting to research the reactions and thoughts on the film upon release, and if the label of documentary held up in the public eye in the early 1950’s. Regardless, the reading focuses entirely on this issue so I’ll digress…

As for the content of the film…
I am a huge fan of surrealist films, especially those made by Bunuel and Dali, so I very much enjoyed the bizarre dream sequences in the film. The slab of meat especially giving off the sense of a grotesque greed and hunger, and the deadly grabbing of the meat by Jaibo. The surrealist elements also bled out of the dream sequences and into the narrative of the film, particularly with the reoccurring image of the black hen to Pedro whenever something ill fated has happened, or is about to happen. And the old, blind man also carries with him a feel of the unreal, crippled yet capable of drastically affecting the lives of the boys. In fact the old blind man was a very strange character as he was set up by Bunuel to be sympathetic (blind and attacked by a gang of boys) but switches completely by the end of the film when we realize how horrible he is to those around him (creeping on the girl and abusing “small eyes”)
Great film.
Pedro’s character was especially heartbreaking.
Lovely.

I can’t see my posts on the course blog and I am getting really frustrated 🙁

Los olvidados es una película que me afecto en un sentido personal. Haber vivido cerca de los barrios de Caracas, yo recuerdo haber visto niños como los de esta pelicula. La película, en su demuestración de un momento transicionál en México, usa …

Los olvidados had quite the negative tone from start to finish just as was mentioned at the beginning of the movie. This film depicted a raw and explicit image of the day in the life of impoverished youth in the slums of Mexico City but to an exaggerat…

El fin de Los Olvidados me dejo sintiendo muy triste. La mayoría de las películas de Hollywood usualmente termina con los finales felices porque desean atraer a la audiencia y lo que crean la audiencia quiere a mirar para que escapar su realidad actu…

I think this film criticizes the inability of the system in place to reform individuals in Mexican society. The fact that Jaibo escaped from prison and actually became a worst person than he was before shows that prison is not the way to go since peop…

“Los Olvidados” is a film that calls for social reform in a society where urbanization is calling for drastic measures on people’s lives and it creates a problem that lies in the core of every person. With the use of a very realistic form of filmmaking…

Los olvidados has a lot of huge important themes, especially since Buñuel thought of it as a documentary, but I think that the relationships are the most interesting part of the film…the relationships between the gang and their parents, the relation…

Yo vi esa película en la secundaria, pero aquella vez no entendí casi nada (probablemente por que no había subtítulos.) El lenguaje de la película es bastante difícil de entender por el ’slang’.  Pero esta vez, gracias a la ayuda de los subtítulos, entendí la mayoría del diálogo.  Sin embargo, de la trama hay ciertas […]

Today was the second time I watched the film and I was surprised that I did not feel as sad as I did the first time. I remember being very moved by the hatred and anger that the children felt in the movie and also very uncomfortable with the blind begg…

Lo siento, soy poco tarde.Los Olvidados ofrece un contraste interesante a Aguila o Sol. En las dos peliculas hay jovenes que viven la mayoria de sus vidas con no padres. En Aguila o Sol, los niños pueden tener una vida con mucho exito. Sin embargo,…

Las peleas, las sangres, los madadores y los muertos, todos las cosas son sufrimiento; las ignorancias de los padres a sus hijos y las desesperaciones de los discapacidados me hace triste; el protagonista, Jaibo, me hace no sóla enojada pero simipatic…

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