La ciudad y los perros

It´s the best movie directed by Francisco Lombardi . The relation of an adolescent called "The Poet" with a group of bad and fool teenagers that generally studying in a military school converts him like a hero when finally fights against the "gang " leader called Jaguar , discovering that he murdered his best friend called "The Slave" a passive and timid boy . This movie shows the most close realism of a peruvian and latin-american problem.

One of the best Peruvian movies that I have ever watch, and pretty close to the book too. In this movie you can watch one of Peru's best actors in the last 30 years, Gustavo Bueno, who was the doctor in Lima in the Motorcycle Diaries. His motto to the cadets, "what are you laughing at? do you want a naked picture of me? is a classic. You can also see a lot of the racial, ethnic and class issues affecting Peru in those years, the large Indian immigration to Lima, and other cultural characteristics of the region and the country. Leoncio Prado is a real school in Peru. To a ceertain extent, things have not change much in Peru since then, so it is a ninteresting interpretation of the country's soul.

The film may have a low budget, a non-existent soundtrack and mediocre acting. Yet the story is so powerful -the movie is loyal to Vargas Llosa's classic novel-, so close to the truth and so well told, it is capable to kick you in the groin.

I liked the movie but if you read the Mario Vargas Llosa's novel it's even better. The movie is as good as La boca del lobo. The acting is good: Alberto, el Esclavo, Jaguar, and specially Gustavo Bueno as Teniente Gamboa. A classic of peruvian filmography.

This is one of the poorest cinema movie of a grateful book.

if you only see the movie you can say that the history can be original or something like that, but if you first read the book you realize that the movie is like the 30% or 40% of the whole history, missing the essence of it. For example, the movie don't tell the history of the childhood of he boys before they get into the school, and do not talk about their families, and it ends when there is still more history to tell. There's a fundamental person in the movie that only appears once, "La pies dorados", she is a prostitute that the boys visit every time they are on sundays rest permission; in the movie she only appear once. To finish i say that is one of me the most lack of essence movie ever made about a beautiful and great books of all Latin American writers.