Mexican Cinema

the young and the damned 1950 movie review

The Young and the Damned (1950) Review: Horrors of Child Poverty

Luis Buenel’s Los Olvidados is one of the pioneers of Neorealism in Mexican and Latin American cinema. The film deals with Child Poverty, crime, loneliness, abuse, and helplessness amidst the slums of struggling Mexico. Unlike Robert Bresson and Vittorio De Sica’s minimalist style, Buenel can visualize and express the misery of poverty with a more …