Victor Gaviria went into a suicide project with this "La vendedora de rosas": he tried to create a fiction using some kids that live in the streets of Medellín, he used them as actors, and that's quite a risky task since they're not boy scouts precisely. These are children that were born right in the sewer, most of them haven't a father or a mother, they steal, they kill, they prostitute... Their only escape is to sniff some glue, maybe because that way they can forget about the fact that no one gives a sh*t about them. The movie is so brutal and shocking, and it becomes more terrifying when you realize that fiction can never be compare to reality.
OK, the kids probe that they were worth the confidence Gaviria put on them. They played themselves, but that ain't as easy as it might look. Just try and play yourselves in front of a camera... Ridiculous, aren't you? And that's the biggest achievement of the Colombian director: he managed to get those kids acting very naturally, just like there wasn't no cameras in front of them.
"La Vendedora de Rosas" is a song to discouragement, to the horror of seeing young boys living in the tips of society, breathing the cruelty of the urban jungle. No moral, no principles, 'cause nobody has teach them such things. That's the way things are in our planet Earth, and that's the way Gaviria shows it.
*My rate: 8/10
OK, the kids probe that they were worth the confidence Gaviria put on them. They played themselves, but that ain't as easy as it might look. Just try and play yourselves in front of a camera... Ridiculous, aren't you? And that's the biggest achievement of the Colombian director: he managed to get those kids acting very naturally, just like there wasn't no cameras in front of them.
"La Vendedora de Rosas" is a song to discouragement, to the horror of seeing young boys living in the tips of society, breathing the cruelty of the urban jungle. No moral, no principles, 'cause nobody has teach them such things. That's the way things are in our planet Earth, and that's the way Gaviria shows it.
*My rate: 8/10