ID #:
65
Film Type:
DVD, Spanish
Release Date:
1950
Color or BW:
Color and B&W
Description:
Los Olvidados is a film that examines the lives of slum-children in Mexico City and how they cope with urban squalor through violence and crime. The portrayal is not optimistic nor does it offer a solution. The only character to show redemption is murdered by his opponent for trying to voice his newfound values. The film is full of contradiction. When it was released in Mexico in 1950, its theatrical commercial run only lasted for three days due to the enraged reactions from the press, government, and upper and middle class audiences. Considered a masterpiece in film by surrealist director Luis Bunuel, UNESCO has cited this film and 'Fritz Lang'to be placed in UN preservation and archive holdings and library collections around the world to ensure their wide disseminatin as part of the Memory of the World Programme.
Keywords:
crime., Mexico, Slum, Spanish, violence