
Hell-bent on revenge, cocky reform-school runaway El Jaibo returns to his old neighborhood in post-World-War-II Mexico City's poor and squalid slums, to reunite with his faithful gang of juvenile delinquents and street urchins. However, as the dangerous ringleader lives and breathes retribution, his destructive obsession to find the informant who supposedly sent him to jail will intricately interweave his bitter fate with that of Pedro, his weak, unwitting accessory, in a des... (Full plot summary below)
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Hell-bent on revenge, cocky reform-school runaway El Jaibo returns to his old neighborhood in post-World-War-II Mexico City's poor and squalid slums, to reunite with his faithful gang of juvenile delinquents and street urchins. However, as the dangerous ringleader lives and breathes retribution, his destructive obsession to find the informant who supposedly sent him to jail will intricately interweave his bitter fate with that of Pedro, his weak, unwitting accessory, in a despicable act of pure evil. In the end, are humans inherently good or bad? Is immorality contingent with society?
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| City Pages, Minneapolis/St. PaulRob NelsonThe mean older sibling of every hell-is-for-children shocker from Pixote to Kids and Ratcatcher. |
| Chicago ReaderDave KehrBuñuel's apparent lack of compassion for his juvenile delinquents is what finally makes the film an unusually powerful social document and a disturbing piece of drama. |
| Christian Science MonitorDavid SterrittThis masterpiece of 1950 is a brutally candid tale of Mexican street life, laced with Bunuel's surrealistic touches. |
| Time OutNick FunnellIt's a masterpiece that tangles individual and social ills into a knot, which, as we're warned in an opening voiceover, it offers no easy way to untie, rousing a sickening sense of injustice. |
| Empire MagazineDavid ParkinsonBunuel's superb and uncompromising portrait of the the debasement of humanity in certain situations retains all of its original power. |
| BBC.comTom DawsonA hugely influential, matter-of-factly brilliant film. |
| New TimesGregory WeinkaufMasterfully moving and as relevant (or more) today as over half a century ago. |
| Seattle TimesJeff ShannonEvery viewing of Los Olvidados offers further proof of its perfection. |
| Ozus' World Movie ReviewsDennis SchwartzThe brilliantly acrimonious film is about connecting poverty with juvenile street crime. |
| Village VoiceJ. HobermanOnce seen, this movie can never be forgotten. |