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Watch: Desde allá 2015 123movies, Full Movie Online – Armando, a middle-aged owner of a Caracas dental prosthesis business, is estranged from his father, who he observes occasionally from a distance. He finds a young man of the streets who negotiates a fee high enough for the boy to be used to provide Armando’s masturbatory object. Although a following encounter ends in a beating for Armando, he continues to make the boy dependent. What is the final result that Armando desires? Is it something more than a conflicted relationship with a hustler?.
Plot: Examines the struggles of a man petrified by the notion of human contact and intimacy. Armando, aged 50, cruises young men in the streets of Caracas and pays them to come back to his house. He also regularly spies on an older man with whom he seems to have ties from the past. One day he meets 17-year-old Elder, leader of a small band of thugs. Their turbulent relationship will come to mimic the violent, passionate, oppressive unpredictability of the city around them.
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Ratings:

	6.6/10 Votes: 3,873
	78% | RottenTomatoes
	73/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 103 Popularity: 6.506 | TMDB

Reviews:

Great story, complex characters, uncomplicated staging and direction allow the message to come through better
Life is complicated regardless of your income, education, or family. Everyone wants to be loved and sometimes that’s difficult to show and receive. Through raw footage, spartan dialog and the very patient dissection of complex characters they learn to love and trust and to be worthy of both. But that doesn’t mean life sorts itself out right away and just when things seem to be great, the plot twists in gut wrenching ways and roles reverse. That doesn’t mean it ends well for all.

Contrary to the comments of another, I found the raw staging, brief dialog and lack of music (except when one would encounter it in real life) to greatly enhance the direction of the file. It takes a bit more patience to find yourself drawn into the story, but its so much more honest and lifelike.

The two lead actors were great… very empathetic. Kudos

Deeply Pessimistic
I have seen this film twice; once a few years ago and now again recently. I am torn between giving it a good review or a not so good review and decided on the latter. The film in itself is well made, and Lorenzo Vigas clearly decided not to give it music, and in so doing avoids audience manipulation, and psychologically we are often left in the dark about the two protagonist’s motivations. So far so good, and anyone who knows film history both Antonioni and Bresson come to mind. Here again I admire the film for its ambiguity and to confront a troubled relationship between a street hustler ( played excellently by Luis Silva ) and an older man played neutrally and well by Alfredo Castro. We are told very little in the film about the truth of both their pasts and this again I can go along with. A savage and brutal relationship develops between them, and their sexual contact is as hard as the physical violence between them. In the conventional sense there is no ‘ love ‘ between them, but a need bordering on dependence on the youth’s side and darker motivations on the older man’s side. The terrible ending is hard to watch, and in a way that I cannot understand the film seems to endorse the homophobia that it appears to attack. In no way is it a positive film about homosexuality, and this troubled me as it comes from a country that needs to understand homosexuality more than it does. However well made it is, it is so full of hatred towards others and the inner selves of the two main characters that I had to reach the conclusion that it is a negative, and repulsive film. The conclusion is a construct as all films are. A decision made by writers and a director and it offers absolutely no hope at all. It is my personal right to dislike this construct and turn my back on the film. It is not enough to make a film that is well made; but a film that is heartless and cruel in intent towards the natural state of homosexuality repulses me. Pessimistic in the extreme it serves no purpose in our troubled society.

Other Information:

Original Language es
Runtime 1 hr 33 min (93 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 30169
Status Released
Rated Unrated
Genre Drama, Romance
Director Lorenzo Vigas
Writer Lorenzo Vigas, Guillermo Arriaga
Actors Alfredo Castro, Luis Silva, Jericó Montilla
Country Venezuela, Mexico
Awards 12 wins & 27 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix D-Cinema 48kHz 5.1, D-Cinema 48kHz 7.1
Aspect Ratio 2.66 : 1
Camera Arri Alexa
Laboratory N/A
Film Length N/A
Negative Format N/A
Cinematographic Process Digital Intermediate
Printed Film Format DCP