The movie The Forgotten (Luis Buñuel – 1950)
Introduction
At the beginning of this film we are warned that this is not a sympathetic movie, since the film was created in order to show the reality that was lived between the society of young people, a film of a pessimistic character.
The movie really focused on showing how young people of this time ended up deviating and continuing on an easier path.
Lost young people in a matter of the course that they want.
Besides that if people gave work to children so easily how strict the law of this is then?
Developing
With regard to the film, it is specifically concentrated in 2 boys from a group of young people, their names are Pedro and Jairo. Pedro is a child who is not loved by his mother for various reasons, the first is that Pedro’s pregnant woman was pregnant at the age of 14 and her pregnancy was due to abuse (at least that is what she implies).Of course, Peter’s father was never present.Pedro was not the only son she had, she had another 3 children much smaller than Pedro.
The second young man who was part of this group is Jaibo, a young man who at first glance looks a little larger than children in the group, in addition to his introduction in the film, he seems to be of legal age, sinceHe tells us that he had escaped from jail, this is corroborated since Jaibo during the film is very careful in terms of fleeing as soon as he sees a policeman.
Before continuing in the plot of the film, I would like to show how this film was not well received at its time, and as that rejection was stated towards its producer Luis Buñuel. This film was only 3 days on the billboard, the press and the upper class were really altered by the realization of this film, its level of alteration was so high that they reached the point of wanting to burn Luis Buñuel and everything that would be related to the.
It was 1950 and Mexican cinema was in its splendor. The Spanish filmmaker Luis Buñuel was already successful, but he was in love with Mexico. Recorded in Nonoalco, in what were then the northern limits of Mexico City. He had a purpose, a heartbreaking vision of street children in large cities. Those of whom nobody speaks, those who shut up, the forgotten.
Since its inception, the tape had problems, inside and outside the production. The producer Oscar Dancingers flatly opposed that many details that were amoral;Jorge Negrete, who was the leader of the actors union, wanted to avoid this recording and incite technicians and cameramen to leave her;One of the combs resigned from the scene where Pedrito’s mother denies him food.
Pedro de Urdimalas, writer of the film along with Buñuel, asked that his name not appeared in the credits and in the first private function that was made, Lupe Marí, (wife of Diego Rivera), and Bertha, (wife of León Felipe), they claimed the director who was a "miserable" and what he showed was not Mexico. David Alfaro Siqueiros for his part applauded the work ensuring that Luis was a genius born to the cinema.
The forgotten was the first production that Luis Buñuel would direct and he wanted to do everything to the fullest that his possibilities allowed him. Luis Buñuel filmed the film in 21 days (between February 6 and March 9, 1950), but although the film is possibly one of the most awarded his cinema, he only received two thousand dollars for her and could not participateIn the earnings of the same.
Given the criticism, Buñuel responded during the course of an interview that was proud of his film:
- “Total freedom does not exist, I have never been free, I am free when I close my eyes and I am myself without knowing that I am old. The disagreement system is that tendency to break your head for recovering one’s freedom, which is impossible, is therefore a permanent disagreement of external reality ”.
- The film reflects the situation of these children and young people where their only alternatives were crime and marginalization, and which is currently in force. A Mexico hit by violence and poverty is shown, an evil that despite technological and scientific advances, modernity and transformations suffered by cities, improvements’ (with respect to that historical moment) in educational systems,etc., Keep getting worse day by day. An evil, that unlike relieves over time, worsens, and that is present not only in third world countries, but also in the countries that we today consider as world powers.
The film shows different social problems, the work of infants, young criminals, the treatment that should be given to these young people, etc.
At present, the rights of children and young people are violated in situations similar to those of the film, not only the rights of these vulnerable groups, but any in a position of power can violate human rights.
conclusion
the channel with which the entire nation was reached and also to other countries.
However, the government knew the power and reach that the cinema had at that time, so the government censored it, arguing that it was an insult of degradation to Mexican society.
Buñuel did not feel limited or frightened of what his film caused, but being a refugee in Mexico had to submit to the limits that were marked and later by a government order, he has to make a different ending for the film, tryingto follow the recording in the same way that it was being carried out with the others.
The cinema represented the mirror of Mexican society, but with a modified reflection. This movie allowed to show the world that Mexico was more complicated than only a process of industrialization and progress. Precariousness and injustice reigned under all that.
The scenes shown during the movie are shocking and heartbreaking, through suspense, sadness, even terror to think that justice exists. Despite the great impact that the film generated in its time, since it was revealed against the president’s progress, things followed the same.Certain places, both from Mexico City and the interior of the Mexican Republic, are still the living reflection that there are still forgotten.
In spite of all the stir that caused and the great importance that was granted, it was a film that did not receive much attention from the media because they only limited themselves to putting the announcement on the billboard but did not make reviews or thepublic reaction.
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