Solemplex To me, this movie is perfection.

Softwing Most undeservingly overhyped movie of all time??

Bessie Smyth Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

Aneesa Wardle The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

elvircorhodzic LOS OLVIDADOS is a brutal display of juvenile crime, poverty and misunderstanding in a broken society. The film was made with lots of love, realism and drama. The fact is that human life is the least cost in terms of bare survival.The director shows us a completely degraded society where poverty is commonplace, delinquency and crime are ways of survival, and children have long been lost. Everything is presented in a kind of vicious circle within which we can see the shocking violence, coincidence and irony. No character in the movie can not pick sympathy. Even the figure of the mother, who at times certainly provokes disgust. Survival is not by any means well.The Director attacking us with real picture of poverty and misery in which the spark of life slightly off. This is certainly not the general madness. This is a representation of the "disturbed" state of consciousness induced by society. I live in a messy and sick society. I understand relationships and therefore understand this movie. Social solutions are absent. Positive messages there. The Society in many cases lead man on the edge of the border through which it can not go further, and back can not be restored. Of course, I never excuses violence, but this is not about individuals or psychopaths.

guisreis In this Mexican movie, Buñuel brings a great depiction of the lost youth, with no projects, committing crimes, practicing violence. Other films did the same afterwards, in my opinion with better outcomes, like Truffaut's "Les quatre cents coups" one decade afterwards, and Argentine "Pizza, birra, faso" half century later. Buñuel's concern about details which are not relevant for the story makes the film richer, and other elements important for Mexican society in those times also appear, such as sexism. Though, the movie gets a little bit tiring and the sudden end was very unsatisfactory. Not all characters behave in a way coherent to the traits shown in their development throughout the movie, particularly in the last moments.

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.

bhwpolo93 This controversial piece of the struggles of minorities and adolescents depict a realistic meaning behind the movie. It shows how kids who have a neglected childhood can go astray. I thought that the portrayal of their disobedient behavior was very compelling and added to the disappointed when Jaibo stole the 50 dollars when the main character was trying to change his ways and become a good natured person. I wanted the kid to have a happy ending but a lot of people believe that to be a boring ending and very predictable. The scene with the ghostly figure/mom floating over the son with the carcass of beef to me seemed like it was put in there to signify the act of a mother feeding/taking care of her son.