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Indeed, I am just seeing this movie for the first time on Mexican television, very obviously edited.

But it seems to borrow a lot of cinematic conventions from other movies that preceeded it.

The first movie that comes to mind that it borrows from is PI, because it is in some areas, black and white, and in others it is in color. However, in PI, there is a lot of use of the SNORRICAM shot, where the camera is strapped to the actor and their face is in the foreground, and the background moves as they walk or move around.

There are a lot of gratuitous uses of the SNORRICAM shot in this movie that serve no purpose and do not move the dramatic narrative along.

They're just used for stylistic purposes.

I love the SNORRICAM, but it doesn't add anything but amateurism to this movie.

It jumps from color to black and white, which is annoying, as it doesn't add anything to the movie except that, annoyance.

The mall scenes also recall a cross between Kevin Smith's Mallrats and Clerks, because they're shot in a mall, very poorly, and they're black and white like Clerks.

Also, the constant zoom and close up and ultra zoom in the mall scenes is annoying. There is even a SNORRICAM shot of Ulises walking into the empty store locale just imagining he could set up a comic book store there.

The comic element is also reminiscent of every Kevin Smith movie.

The entire movie is riddled with Natalia Lafourcade music, which I love, but it doesn't fit the narrative. It makes it sound like a campy, teenage movie, and not a serious film. It also takes me out of the story when the music has nothing to do with the tone or mood of the story or the film.

I love NATALIA as I said, but her music seems thrown in, as filler at times, or to make it a cheesy teen romance.

There are elements of the Romeo and Juliet doomed star-crossed lovers from all Romeo and Juliet adaptations, more recently the Leonardo DiCrappio and Claire Danes adaptation. Even that was a little better than this.

I love what the movie is trying to say about the difference in social economic classes in Mexico.

I am of Mexican descent, born in the United States.

Of course it's the same everywhere, this struggle between classes for social acceptance.

I can relate.

Renata, Marta Higareda is wonderful, her gratuitous nudity doesn't add to the narrative either, but it doesn't take away.

I guess you could say she's discovering her sexuality, but it never gets gritty like a Harmony Korine film, or a Larry Clark movie.

It doesn't move the story forward.

Yes they're all teens and they're all horny.

But do they make a change, do they grow in the end?

I hate the girl who plays Renata's bitchy sister. I know people like that in real life, and you just feel like slapping them sometimes.

The music is cool, though not for the film.

But yeah they borrow a lot from Amores Perros too. Including the use of the word AMOR in the title, the fact that ULISES wears the same shirt that Gael Garcia Bernal aka OCTAVIO wears in the famous last dogfight/stabbing/runaway scene in AMORES PERROS.

Maybe that's the bootleg Puma jersey, but they're trying to make Ulises a little like Octavio, and there's no way they can touch Gael. Gael's got his own acting style and even manner of dress. It's distracting in this movie.

They also borrow from Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu's style of filmmaking. He uses gritty looking filmstock, which they also use in this movie.

His choppy edits and cuts are also present in this movie.

All in all, it's a fun movie, but not very original.

Renata is gorgeous. I wouldn't mind courting a girl like her in real life.

The writing needs work, as does the directing.

More originality, more structure please.

I get distracted too easily in this, so it's easy to lose myself in the film.

Just my opinions.

Don' tell me to relax. Don't tell me to *beep* RELAX! Just keep your *beep* FACE OUTTA MY PANTS!