My rating: 4 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Turner Classic Movies)
Street urchins in Mexico survive, rather than live, in the streets. One of the older boys bullies the others into helping him rob and steal, even from the blind and crippled. Just out of reform school, he takes revenge on the boy he believes turned him in, killing him in the process. He bribes a younger boy who witnessed the murder. He stays quiet but is racked with guilt which festers inside him and threatens to take over his life. Framed for theft by the same boy, he is sent to reform school himself where a kindly director almost manages to turn him around. However, the streets are unforgiving leading to the unforgettable final scene. A brutal, hopelessly pessimistic film with occasional touches of Bunuel's surrealism.
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