Review of The Young and the Damned

After seeing some of the excellent surrealist films, especially from his "French" phase of the 60s and 70s, of the master (of that same surrealism) Luis Bunuel, of whom I considered "le charme discret de la bourgeoisie" his maximum exponent, I was surprised to see this film of this filmmaker, here in an extremely successful foray in the field of neo-realism (although surrealism is also present in some scenes). A timeless movie. What we see on the screen as a reality of Mexico in the 1950s, continues to be a reality today in many places of the world (I, who recently worked in African countries for 6 years, do not forget the reality that I saw day by day, well close, and that is very close to the one we see in the movie). Yesterday as today, society continues to corrupt individuals, here personified in the character of little Peter. His intentions were good, but sometimes it is very difficult to fight against a kind of destiny that already seems to have been traced. It is even very difficult for many to oppose or evade a kind of propagation of "evil", which seems to be (and increasingly) instituted and rooted in society and which ultimately destroys or corrupts individuals, even those endowed with a kind of magic "purity" (or at least, some). The pessimistic tone of the film, although it may not please many, has every reason to be, for this is the reality of things. In every 100 stories similar to the movie, there are 99 that do not end well.