Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

GurlyIamBeach Instant Favorite.

ShangLuda Admirable film.

Arianna Moses Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

porongoche This is probably the only film that falls into the category of "Great, but no thanks". Is this a masterpiece? Like so many of Buñuel films, Yes, Yes, and again Yes! Can I ever watch it again? Uh, ... no. Yes, it is sad and depressing, but I can handle that. The problem is that it is also very disturbing to the point of causing great discomfort. Just one of those films that I never wish to see again. Sort of like a diabetic who loves pecan pie. He wants it, but even one slice would be dangerous. Well, watching this movie would be like me a being a diabetic and eating the whole pecan pie. Thanks but no thanks.

bobsgrock One of the earliest works of famed surrealist director Luis Bunuel's career, Los olvidados was an international hit primarily due to its portrayal of inner city Mexican children living on the brink of death due to immense poverty and crime. The plot focuses on the conflict between two young boys, Jaibo, a recently escaped juvenile delinquent, and Pedro, whose mother struggles to raise three other children and seemingly has no affection or attention left for her eldest. In following these characters, Bunuel cannot help but include some of his trademark surrealist imagery. One of the most famous involves Pedro throwing an egg at the camera as the liquid rolls down the lens. There is also an extended dream sequence in slow-motion chronicling one of the character's deep-seeded guilt and fear of his surroundings. For those who are not familiar with Bunuel, this is a good place to start. The film is accessible, moves along quickly, and encounters serious themes of how to deal with impoverished children and inner city crime in general. While not employing the kind of memorable techniques from later in his career that defines him today, this is still very much a Bunuel film, albeit a neorealist story with a twist of surrealism.

tomgillespie2002 After his exile from his native Spain, director Luis Bunuel moved to Mexico in 1946, gaining citizenship in 1949. It was here where he would make his more generic films (by his standards), as he honed his own directorial skill while never straying too far from his surrealistic background. After the success of his comedy The Great Madcap (1949), he was commissioned by producer Oscar Dancigers to make a serious film about child poverty in Mexico City, and out of it came Los Olvidados, or The Young and the Innocent, to give it it's American title. Bunuel apparently spent months disguised as a homeless amongst the poverty- stricken children of the slums in order to research, and if that tale is true, it certainly came off, as Los Olvidados is one of the best and most realistic depictions of the innocent turning to crime in a fit of desperation.The film follows three children in the same slum. Pedro (Alfonso Mejia) is a young tearaway who wants to change his ways and work, in order to help out his mother who neglects him due to her constant work. 'Little Eyes' (Mario Ramirez) has been abandoned by his father, and is adopted by the blind beggar Don Carmelo (Miguel Inclan), a bitter man who frequently voices his opinions on the young criminals of the city. El Jaibo (Robert Cobo) has just been released from prison and immediately sets about gaining revenge of the boy he thinks ratted him out. Jaibo and Pedro corner the boy, only for Jaibo to bludgeon him to death, and the two boys flee. Pedro struggles to keep himself out of trouble and leaves home after being accused of stealing a knife, only to find his and Jaibo's paths repeatedly crossing.At its heart, this is pure neo-realism, sharing its tone most obviously with Vittorio de Sica's masterpiece The Bicycle Thieves (1948) in exposing poverty and class divide as the main cause of criminality, due to the ill education and the hopelessness of the young. Although, out of nowhere, comes a surrealistic dream sequence so beautiful, and so haunting, that you know you're watching Bunuel, and his artistic creativity seems to bulge from the screen. Best known for his mocking of the upper-classes (the bourgeois were clearly as fascinating to Bunuel as they were repugnant), here he stays in the slums, promoting as much sympathy for its filthy lead characters as hatred.Jaibo is a true monster, raised without parents, he bullies his way through life, grasping any opportunity that presents itself (he even manages to seduce Pedro's lonely and overworked mother, and rob a legless man). It is Pedro who is the beating heart of the film, especially when he leaves home and we witness the state of the lower- classes from his eyes and how they are viewed (in one powerful sequence, an upper class man obviously propositions him for sex, but we only see their exchange, as we watch them through a window). Bunuel then manages to deliver not one, but two sensational endings, that manage to move and shock as much as the famous and upsetting climax to Bicycle Thieves. Bunuel would go to France to create his greatest works, but Los Olvidados displays many of the attributes that made Bunuel one of the most important directors in the history of film, as well as being a great film in its own right.www.the-wrath-of-blog.blogspot.com

alxbarra After watching this film several times and analyze it, all I have to say is this: ¿Why isn't this movie on the list of the best films ever made?Why isn't this movie consider a cult classic like The Seventh Seal, The 400 Blows or La Strada. In my opinion this movie is by far better than those films. Luis Buñuel's crude reflection of a reality that still happens in Mexico. Buñuel presents us a bunch of characters (specially kids) living at the streets, almost like animals surviving by instinct. I loved the fact that this movie doesn't set a solution, it is just a story about a generation of future criminals and murderers, and the story will keep going and going.these kids are The Forbidden Ones, the unborn ones.