tttw6 this low budget flick is 10 x better than 80% of Hollywood films out there in every way. the acting is what i love best about this film the lead actor has to be good in a film like this since it focuses on his life and he is almost perfect. the film keeps you on the edge and my only disappointment was the end as i was sad to see it i was expecting a little more. another thing i liked about this is i never got bored even though there isn't that much action it keeps at a good pace all the time.the script is good the directing is good i can find no other real faults with this film i recommend this film

jotix100 "Dias de Santiago" is a disturbing film. We are taken by its creator, Josue Mendez, to the mean streets of Lima to follow a young man that works as a driver of a taxi. Santiago's home life is not exactly a happy one. The mother is a long suffering woman who doesn't do anything to rebel against her husband and what life has given her. Santiago, we learn, joined the army at an early age. His tour of duty is over, so he came back to Lima, where he is not prepared to experience his new reality. While Santiago stayed basically a good guy, most of his former colleagues have turned to crime because the atmosphere they found once out of fighting the war with Ecuador.The director, Josue Mendez, uses a mixture of black and white with color photography to emphasize what is going on in Santiago's mind as he faces different moments in his life. Mr. Mendez got an amazing performance from Pietro Sibille, who makes Santiago real throughout the film. This young actor, who seems to be a non professional is a natural and surprises us by the range he displays in the film. Mr. Sibille is the main reason for watching this film that shows the underside of a society where it seems no hope exists.

johno-21 I saw this at the 2006 Palm Springs International Film Festival where it played for it's second year in a row. I guess since it became Peru's official nomination to the Academy Awards the Festival organizers felt they should bring it back as they feature most of the films that are official submissions to the upcoming Academy Awards. I would hope it doesn't come back for a third year at the 2007 festival. This is admittedly a low budget film but nothing in this film can get you past the fact that it is low budget. I tried to be sympathetic to young former soldiers trying to make a living back in the civilian world but except for the lead character you didn't know enough about his friends to care what happened to them. As for his plight it became predictable from the beginning. The woman who played the mother and the girl who played the little sister in small roles seemed like the only ones in this movie who could actually act. I would give this a 4.5 out of a possible 10 and not recommend it.

vdg Lima, Peru. If you ever been there you will recognize the sad truth about that city: poverty and misery all over. For a movie coming from Peru, I think it was very good, but it cannot stand with international standards: most of the actors were pathetic:) Now, don't understand me wrong, the movie is nice, and I recommend it, BUT is still far away from the Italian neo-realism (It is indeed a neo-realist film..) and WAY far away from the Taxi Driver, that many people compare it with. The streets and the atmosphere from Lima was caught very good on the screen using some black and white images alternating with colored ones, but other than this, don't expect anything spectacular.7/10 - one of the best Peruvian movies.