"Living in a big city is an art", someone said in an exhibition some years ago in São Paulo, Brazil. Although it's funny, the sentence really deserves some attention, because it's true. The big cities are a kind of jungle where everybody tries to survive the best way they can. In many of these places, poverty is a shocking but real fact.
In this "Los Olvidados" (the forgotten ones) Luis Buñuel brings up a detailed portrait of the young criminals in Mexico City back in the late 40's. The plot is about a small group of teens led by cruel Jaibo, a young ex-con who comes back to his neighbourhood to get his revenge against an old partner and to keep on his life of crimes. Together with them, some other poor children who try to carry on with their lives without getting involved with trespasses. Theses ones are always provoked and threatened by Jaibo and his partners.
In this "Los Olvidados" (the forgotten ones) Luis Buñuel brings up a detailed portrait of the young criminals in Mexico City back in the late 40's. The plot is about a small group of teens led by cruel Jaibo, a young ex-con who comes back to his neighbourhood to get his revenge against an old partner and to keep on his life of crimes. Together with them, some other poor children who try to carry on with their lives without getting involved with trespasses. Theses ones are always provoked and threatened by Jaibo and his partners.