Today's Review: La Jaula de Oro

Here's another review I wrote for MS this week:

http://www.moviescene.nl/p/154754/la_jaula_de_oro_-_recensie

Quite a harrowing movie. And it began in a rather optimistic fashion, with positive teenagers hoping for a better life in the USA and following their dreams, leaving behind their extreme poverty and hopping on a train off into the great unknown through the beautiful jungle. An unknown that keeps being unraveled by revealing nothing but misery which keeps spiralling into ever more degenerative depths of despicable human behavior the closer the protagonists get to the border. What began as a roadmovie ends in a social horror picture. Director Diego Quemada-Díez has made a chilling drama movie that needs to be seen to fully understand the plight of Latin-American illegal immigrants. But he doesn't make it easy on his audience, nor should he if he is to respect his source material, the suffering immigrants themselves.