Cute, shallow, curly-haired semi-gay delinquent Carlitos and his semi-boyfriend spiral into a life of crime in early 1970's Argentina. They drive old American and European cars. Carlitos shoots people freely but not an absurd number of them.
The movie looked nice, everything nicely lit. It makes Buenos Aires look like a perfectly pleasant place to live except for the police and the serial killers.
The movie begins with this awful kid burglarizing a house. He soon befriends a good-looking classmate who has fully developed sideburns even though they're in high school. His new friend, it turns out, has an ex-convict father who decides that they can make a lot of money working with the adorable psychopath.
Based on the case of Robledo Puch, now 68, the longest-serving prisoner in Argentina.
I read a couple reviews which noted how shallow Carlitos is. It's sort of the opposite of the British movie Notting Hill which puts a real effort into explaining that a movie star played by Julia Roberts has feelings and emotions in spite of the way she looks.
No comments:
Post a Comment