Sujo (2024)
Genre: Drama
Duration: 126 minuten
Country:
United States / Mexico / France
Directed by: Astrid Rondero and Fernanda Valadez
Stars: Juan Jesús Varela, Yadira Pérez and Alexis Varela
IMDb score:
6,8 (1.384)
Releasedate: 19 January 2024
Sujo plot
The Mexican Sujo grows up with his aunts. His father was violently killed as a member of a drug cartel when he was a young boy. Sujo makes it his life's mission to break the chain of violence in his family, no matter how difficult that may be. He decides to move to the city and study literature. Will he be able to determine his own future?
Reviews & comments
mrklm
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- 11629 messages
- 10041 votes
Sujo [Kevin Aguilar] is 4 years old when his father, the 'number 8' in a local crime cartel, is liquidated. He grows up with his spiteful aunt [Yadira Pérez] and is friends with Jai [Alex Varela] who also has ties to crime. Not a crime drama, but a kind of coming-of-age drama (with Varela as a teenage Sujo) where you would expect something interesting to happen at some point. Nothing could be further from the truth. Slow, boring and often soporific. Rondero and Valadez are clearly more interested in pretty pictures (and there are plenty of them) than in telling a compelling story.
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De filosoof
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- 2489 messages
- 1700 votes
The film is of course a combination of several art forms: just like theatre it tells a story, uses actors, there is the aspect of the entire decoration (sets, costumes) and – in this the film distinguishes itself most from theatre – it expresses itself by means of the image/photography which you could call the 'true' art of film. What you often see with 'arthouse films' is that the art of film is fine – the film is 'beautifully' shot so it always contains beautiful pictures – but that the story is simply not interesting and Sujo is a typical example of that. You keep expecting a twist that will make the story exciting – like in Godfather II the wimp of the family unexpectedly becomes the boss and the avenger and of which Sujo has the same premise – but it doesn't come. Apart from a lack of writing talent, it will also have a moralistic purpose: you can also just come from a mafia family and go to study in the city to become a respectable citizen, but that doesn't make the film any less boring. So I agree with mrklm: nice pictures but no captivating story. But because the film art of the movie is fine - you can't criticize how everything is shown - I end up with a higher score.
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