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Plot: Set in war-torn El Salvador in the mid-1980s, an eleven-year-old boy must decide between joining the army and fighting alongside the guerrillas.
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MCT:July 1, 2008
Though it is subtitled because it's in Spanish, and I had to read the entire movie. It's worth it. The story, the acting, it was all very good.
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MCT:June 12, 2008Yet again another shining foriegn language film with good performances and a sad way to learn about history. Really Good!
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MCT:June 8, 2008Powerful. One of the things that struck me the most was the speech the Cura (priest) makes to the people of the pueblo (town) in front of the church. He says: "The word of God should be heard by those who have not found grace within themselves. What is grace? Grace is the presence of the divine in every one of our actions. The skeptics say, "If God existed, there would be no war." And I respond, "If humanity would obey the word of God, then there would be no war!" Because God has given humanity the privilege to live in grace, or on the contrary, to provoke disgrace. I assure you, when one lives in the grace of God, war does not exist. Nevertheless, there are those who ignore their own divine nature and they satisfy themselves by robbing, humiliating and killing their own kind..."
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MCT:April 7, 2008
Heartbreaking, powerful drama about the war in El Salvador. Director Mandoki gets an amazing performance out of Carlos Padilla as Chava, the young boy who witnesses the bloodshed and terror of the children caught in the crossfire of the government soldiers and the guerillas. His performance is authentic and amazing. A beautifully made, heartwrenching film.
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MCT:April 7, 2008
Extremely sad. It's based in a true story developed during the civil war in El Salvador in the 80s and shows us the condition of a Salvadorian family, and more specifically, the situation of the children under these unacceptable circumstances.
First of all, the direction by Luis Mandoki is wonderful, and the performance by Carlos Padilla is awesome if we consider his age during the footage, involving you with the story in an amazing way, like so, making you suffer with him and the rest of the cast.
On the other hand, the script is very simple, but in Mandoki's hands is almost a masterpiece; this exposes the innocence and naivete of the kids and the pure love that they can feel, love able to change things, contrasting this with the infamous fate that the army and guerrilla provides them in a nonsense, evidencing how far the mankind's stupidity can get, eroding and corrupting this magnificent feelings, leading, therefore, to a hopeless, awful, useless, and senseless end of a war which shouldn't have begun in first place. I think that the war is necessary in certain cases, but not managed by brainless leaders and intended to corrode from inside the social order, unless you are a super power dedicated to take advantage from the other countries' people, culture and natural resources.
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viacrucis5posted 534 days ago
