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6.7/10
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A group of teenagers in Mexico City set out to enrich their lives.A group of teenagers in Mexico City set out to enrich their lives.A group of teenagers in Mexico City set out to enrich their lives.
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- 14 nominations total
Saul Mercado
- Karina
- (as Saúl Mercado)
Rocío Belmont
- Vendedora tienda abarrotes
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Nice work, good production, the movie shows the reality about the worst situations in mexico city, but the way that gael garcia show to us these problems and the situations with the caratchers we can see a realy good movie with some tiny problems, that show to us, how is the space and the situations that happens everyday in those towns in mexico city.
This film is made every 3-4 years and when they seem to have experience on it they always make the same mistakes again. The weight of the film falls as always in seeing the sad and hard life that these people live, stories that are not far from reality, but if anyone took a camera and went out to record surely they would achieve what this script with mediocre dialogues could not achieve. It hurts because the opportunity to make a movie is not available to everyone, but why do they always give it to the worst writers? Why always this pretentious view of social inequality? Can anyone do something different in México?
If someone imagined it could happen, the story of chicuarotes is one of many unfortunate stories that surround the most poor in Mexico and developing countries, it portrays in an immersive manner the struggles and the ignorance of people that are just born, raised and mourned in misery. It is not a movie that generates guilt in the viewer rather than it awakens appreciation of what you have and confronts you to the terrible reality that some people live, from your comfortable couch. Characters are poorly developed but not stupid as some say, it is really a series of bad decisions.
A lot to process.
A lot to process.
There is a lot of misunderstanding about this movie in this review section. Once a person understands the culiture of CDMX and the life of a chilango en México then that person will be able to understand this movie. Great delivery and full of emotional drama. I would not expect anything less from a Mexican director. Great cast, great characters and this movie portrayed the real struggle in cdmx. This movie is a heavy movie. Full of emotion and was delivered very well. I am just adding extra characters to this post to meet the minimum.
Para mis mexicanos, somos más fuertes juntos. Vive México.
Para mis mexicanos, somos más fuertes juntos. Vive México.
The movie will keep you interested from the beginning to the end, it shows the reality of many people in México and what they have to go through everyday (crime, violence, etc). It will make you laugh several times and also drop some tears.
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- ConnectionsReferenced in De Pisa y Corre: Episode #1.30 (2019)
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Box office
- Gross worldwide
- $1,213,841
- Runtime1 hour 35 minutes
- Color
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