Monday, September 30, 2013

Cambio de Suerte / Lucky Bastards



Pretty funny
Very hilarious movie to watch haha. Explains the ghetto side of Mexico and how sometimes your luck can go from good to bad in one night. Haha never trust some prostitutes in Mexico City haha. you never what you may find haha. thats my only criticism of the movie but they make a good point putting the transsexual there. Movie isn't for kids and just for adults. 18 and older..

A brilliant, overlooked film
Of all the many films I have seen that were influenced by Tarantino's "Pulp Fiction," this is the best. Other movies that the film-makers might have seen and profited by are Goran Paskaljevic's "Cabaret Balkan" and Mike Figgis's "Timecode." In any case, I mainly list the comparisons in order to give potential viewers a sense of where the film is cinematically situated. This is a brilliant piece of work in its own right.

"Cambio de suerte" follows the intersecting adventures of about a dozen lowlife characters in the streets of a Mexico City neighborhood in one evening. If you are easily put off by nasty characters, don't watch this! - I had to remind myself that I was safe, that the scuzziness I was seeing couldn't leak through to my side of the screen.

We return to many events from different points of view that reveal unexpected dimensions to what we thought we had already digested - particularly in the case of an episode of sexual violence that bookends the...



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