On the surface, director Rodrigo Moreno’s award-winning new film, The Delinquents, mimics other heist films by showing how the best laid plans always seem to go awry. While that simple template of a plot alone could be considered clichéd by now, this movie takes that formula and not only bends it by injecting the bank robbers with dramatic human desires, but also pushes the philosophical concept of existentialism in thought-provoking ways. Aside from the actual people who are trying to apprehend Moran (Daniel Elias) and accuse Roman (Esteban Bigliardi) of thievery, the two biggest antagonistic forces in The Delinquents seem to be the abstract notions of procedure and order.
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