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Best movie of this year hands down!

Excellent but underrated film

Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

La zona is a movie taking place in a gated community somewhere in Mexico. The story begins at night when a billboard crashes down at the wall of said community and three teenagers enter it in order to steal valuable things as the neighborhood is located right next to a very poor and desolated city.The film shows how the population - who is not used to deal much with the world outside their walls - copes with the situation of three guys intruding their peaceful safe zone. The longer they are inside the more things get out of control. The story is both told from the view of the inhabitants and of the three burglars. It shows how a little disturbance of order and peace can bring out the worst in some people and lets them make unethical decisions. Another topic of this brilliant movie are police corruption (in Mexico), but I don't want to tell you too much.What I personally want to stress is the great camera work which makes one feel very attached to the story and puts the viewer in the middle of the events taking place.In conclusion it can be said that la zona is an outstanding piece of art and cinematography and it is a definite must-watch for anybody who is even remotely into movies.

La Zona is a movie that kicks the middle class right in their butts. It is a movie that bluntly tells them what they actually are, as against, what they think they are - Rodrigo Pla, through this attempt, probes the very fundamental idea of "civility", often extolled by the bourgeoisie as one of their defining (sometimes distinct) quality.Written by Laura Santullo and released in 2007, the movie talks about the degrading and twisted values in an industrialized Mexican society that is also marked by acute economic inequality. In her 'intelligent' script Laura underlines the fragility of social notions and values in times of stress.A fear struck group of people - who are considered progressive, civil and developed as per the accepted societal standards and who also live inside the excluded gates of a suburban colony surrounded by shanties - suddenly resort to the meanest and most butcherly of acts when threatened. The movie gradually rides the viewer into a mood of alarm, where even a grotesque act of covering up dead bodies of two teenagers in municipal garbage tends to be seen as normal and chasing a 16 year old boy to his death is passed off as an act of self defense.In a town, which fully characterizes the have/have-not divide in the post-modern society symbolized through its excluded gates, irenic living of its residents take precedence over morals and values.This story can find resonance in every country and in India that resonance is alarmingly loud. How many times have we read about residents of housing colonies beating up a robber to death or parading a woman naked because her son snuggled up to an upper caste girl?? La Zona is about all that - a simple and straight story line that can make you feel extremely uncomfortable for what you actually are and to a great extend break the farce called civility that the country's middle class often harp about. This was Laura Santullo's first attempt as a writer and she gets my two thumbs up.I give this a movie five star - must watch!

Every year there's a summer movie festival in the open court of an old palace in my town. I like going there, with some friends of mine or alone, to see films carefully chosen every time from the recent months new releases. The logic is: no blockbusters, high quality. I knew nothing about "La Zona". From the first minute, i was given the possibility to see the future directly in the eyes of Aldous Huxley or George Orwell, if they were here now. The birth of a brave new world, full of violence, where law is a word without meaning. Or with a lot of different meanings, that's the same. The plot is very simple,but brilliant. A perfect mechanism, with classical roles and fantastic acting. Destiny is in the air, like in Greek tragedy, and the best of all is that you can't identify yourself with one or the other easily. If you do that, you'll be someway guilty. Not to miss.

In any large city of Latin America or the rest of the third world, wealth and poverty coexist side by side, not uncommonly separated by just a thin high wall. In typical fashion the rich appropriate the bulk of the country's wealth, a few of the poor reclaim a tiny portion back through robbery and muggings, and the rich react in turn by protecting themselves and even striking back. It's low intensity class warfare.La Zona is an enclave, a walled-city with massive iron gates, widely scattered security cameras and around-the-clock monitoring. It's the modern equivalent of the medieval castle. Laying siege is a slum, where live the nemeses of the inhabitants of La Zona. They have come to this enclave out of fear, for protection against further assaults, to enjoy the good life in a secure haven. Many are angry. Some have been victims. Some are vengeful.The story begins when, during a storm, the wall is breached and electrical power is lost. A threesome from the slum takes advantage to penetrate the enclave and steal a few things. The temporary invasion does not go well. Shots are exchanged. People die. That event sets the wheels of the thriller in motion.The typical characters are present. The honest police investigator whose work is subverted by a corrupt police department. The good bad-guy, the bad bad-guy, the good good-guy and the bad good-guy. They are all there, some in multiple copies. It's formulaic, but effective.