Screw you, Buñuel!
That chicken scene at the correctional school was completely unnecessary. It just spoils an otherwise great movie.
I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!
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at least they died a better way than those chickens in John Waters' "Pink Flamingoes", *beep*
shareHow does this scene mess the movie up? Isn't this the theme of the movie -- people taking their aggression out on others?
That earlier scene, where Pedro's mother is killing the rooster in the backyard, foreshadows it. Why were those chickens fighting? Because Pedro threw a rock at rooster, and the rooster took its frustration out on Pedro's chickens.
That's Bunuel's whole damn point. When innocent people are wronged, they have a nasty tendency to inflict their aggressions out on other innocent people, and that's why we have so many problems in the world -- not least of which is poverty.
"What I don't understand is how we're going to stay alive this winter."
Then I recommend you not watch Bunuel's earlier documentary "Las Hurdes" which shows villagers on horseback tearing the heads off live chickens in some weird ritual. Bunuel and his crew also shot a goat just so they could film it falling off a cliff.
shareIt's unpleasent and I don't approve of such behaviour per se, but in this serious, sad and important film about the mechanisms of great cruelty, it certainly ain't "unnecessary". In fact, Los Olvidados is one of the extremely few films in which I just about accept it.
"facts are stupid things" - Ronald Reagan
They didn't need catering that day.
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