Niños Asesinos (2018)

Niños Asesinos: Directed by Ricardo Tavera. With Luis Xavier, Jorge Gallegos, Adrián Escalona, Lucero Lander. Murderous Children presents 4 files, 4 real stories of criminal children. The story begins in a reformatory where the most overwhelming and moving stories are gathered, showing the storms and abuses faced by children who have known abandonment, torture, rage and human disorder. Four lives that converge in the most culminating point to murder. Tweety and Cat: two teenagers who dispute their destinies in the world of drugs and human trafficking. Gerardo and Pablo: their proposal will be strong to push the people that they love the most. Carlos and Miguel: will take their inner grudges towards the most perverse. And Mariano: will have an opportunity to discover what is better? ¿kill or love?. Rather than showing a monstrous and ruthless society, it shows its most intimate, most innocent and illusive side, fractured at the most precise moment to become that they were so close to: Murderous Children. Killer children presents the most overwhelming and moving stories that show the storms, abuse and abuse faced by children who have known the abandonment, torture, rage and human disorder of the people with whom they have lived and loved. Their stories tell us the journeys, the decadence and the ruptures that have been taken to the limit of their control, the social events that have led our childhood to destroy that innocence, passing that thin thread between the illusion to become the evil and the absolute perversion. This saga not only narrates the cruelty in its reality and hopelessness, but also for the darkness of the lives portrayed, which rather than showing a monstrous and ruthless society, shows its most intimate, most innocent and hopeful side, fractured at the most precise moment the childhood.

“This is a film about four (true) cases of children who have committed murder and is centred in a reformatory. Taking real cases of children murderers and looking at what brought them to that state is a great idea, unfortunately it has been inexpertly realised. The actors playing the parts of the experts and social workers look as though theyu0026#39;re reading from boards that are just out of view. Their flat exposition is all we learn about the childrenu0026#39;s past, the kids themselves are mostly constrained to acting out the murders and after. Poor performances, too much u0026#39;Blah. Blah. Fishcakesu0026#39; from the pretend professional careru0026#39;s, plus a lack of reference to fact left me with a shallow, unconvincing and disappointing movie. Itu0026#39;s worth noting this filmu0026#39;s form, content and presentation is very similar to another Mexican film, u0026#39;El Camino De La Vidau0026#39; from1956. I also need to point out that one of the u0026#39;case filesu0026#39; left me feeling very uncomfortable. This was an enactment of a murder that so exactly matches an infamous UK crime that it seems unlikely to have originated in Mexico. A copy-cat murder is not impossible, but every detail is the same. I was quite offended, as a viewer, that the filmmakers seemed to take the UK story with an apparent lack of respect to those involved or their audience and sold it as their own because of its shock value.”