Don Oscar

Although I hail from L. A., my heart will always be in CALI, COLOMBIA. I called this vibrant city "HOME" from May, 1985 until August, 2001. It is hard for me to imagine anyone who, like me, lived in CALI a long time, or who was born and raised there, not having a really clear & definitive visceral reaction to DOGWASHERS! ...If You are from New York City, or, like me, from L. A.... You have seen innumerable films with your hometown as a backdrop! CALI has appeared only in a handful.... Especially, as depicted in DOGWASHERS, where the Director undoubtedly was keenly aware of this reality and seemed to make a point of on-screen driving around to showcase different well-known CALI neighborhoods and principal thoroughfares.

Focusing on the movie itself: The characters are all portrayed in a manner that is starkly and utterly convincing! Although I must admit never having interacted with anyone similar to the lowlifes depicted in the film... They struck me as slice-of-life believable! Looking at the IMDb Profiles of the cast... Most of them apparently have never appeared in any other productions.... So, they could be classified as "AMATEURS"! Director Carlos Moreno has done an absolutely exquisite job coaxing(?) phenomanally natural performances out of the entire cast!... There is, in an oblique way, a touch of the CLASSICAL in DOGWASHERS, in the sense that, when you come right down to it...GREEK TRAGEDY, would be a fitting description! Probably, as so often is the case in films produced in a different language... Just about all of the subtle culture-clash nuances will be completely lost... But there is enough universality in DOGWASHERS... to make it highly enjoyable and well worth your time! 8********

This is a great movie, with a awesome story line and with great actings, very recommended, with the correct action, the correct comedy, and with a great script. If you like the narcos movies you should see this film.

Seems like a decent movie, but past the time and twisted to nonsense movie, too much stories too many short stories and ending in nothing, nothing in common and take your attention for nothing, waste my time, do not see this boring movie, bad movie,

Fake gardeners. Real gardeners. Broken statues. Money problems. Drug dealers and their customers. So much going on in this colombian neighborhood. And the coppers might be watching it all. Everyone owes money to someone. Some want to pay when they can raise the cash. Others have the dough, but just don't want to pay. Out of spite. And the bodies start piling up. Lots of talk of the church, the bible. Various folks quoting the bible.... when it suits them. Good, but a pretty dark, ending, as expected. Currently only on the netflix. Directed by carlos moreno. It did win a bunch of film fest awards.

Stop the nationalist chauvinism, this is the real underground Colombia. Although the plot has some loose ends and some characters deserved more development, this Guy Ritchie like production shows the decadence of a drug lord, the racism, the male chauvinism besides the classical beauty pageant lady who married a drug dealer, because average low-middle class Colombian woman is raised like that. Oh unfortunately, if she is pretty OUR society tells to find the narc to pays her tastes. And the nasty if not idiotic side of authorities. But certainly a mirror of our reality.