{"id":18,"date":"2006-05-07T13:34:30","date_gmt":"2006-05-07T17:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/18"},"modified":"2016-03-30T14:29:21","modified_gmt":"2016-03-30T19:29:21","slug":"los-olvidados-1950-luis-bunuel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/18","title":{"rendered":"Los Olvidados (1950, Luis Bunuel)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Skipping past twenty years, <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/6289\">Las Hurdes<\/a><\/em>, the Spanish Filmofono productions and a couple other Mexican movies&#8230; to <em>Los Olvidados<\/em>.  I understood that this was one of the pre-60&#8217;s movies that Bunuel had the most control over.<\/p>\n<p>Realist drama about a kid named Pedro whose mother barely loves him, if at all, and his friends, thug Jaibo and innocent Big Eyes.  When there isn&#8217;t violence in a scene, there&#8217;s the threat of violence.  Even Big Eyes and the little girl pick up a rock or stick and hold it up as if to bash someone&#8217;s brains out at one point, then pull back.  Jaibo doesn&#8217;t pull back, killing a former friend (who supposedly sent him to jail) at the beginning.  His crimes catch up with Jaibo, but Pedro&#8217;s poverty and lack of parenting and bad associations catch up with him as well.<\/p>\n<p>Well-made movie.  Echos of <em>Salaam Bombay<\/em> (seen a month ago) but with less positivity.  Katy liked it pretty well, but watched the clock more than the screen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Skipping past twenty years, Las Hurdes, the Spanish Filmofono productions and a couple other Mexican movies&#8230; to Los Olvidados. I understood that this was one of the pre-60&#8217;s movies that Bunuel had the most control over. Realist drama about a kid named Pedro whose mother barely loves him, if at all, and his friends, thug [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[342,6,137],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1950s","tag-luis-bunuel","tag-mexico"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10951,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions\/10951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}