Innocent Voices

"Innocent Voices" is a sharply detailed, moving film that tells a powerful human story and documents the horror of El Salvador's brutal, U.S.-funded civil war from 1980 – 1992.

The movie manages not to send explicit massages about USA role in El Salvador civil war or plays any political arguments; it simply depicts the struggle of those who suffered as it is happening. The movie is narrated through the eyes of a child Chava an eleven-year-old boy who takes on the role of the man of the house after his father abandons the family in the middle of the El Salvadorian civil war. I was really impressed of the performance of the lead actor incomparable with any other child actor I have seen before.

The movie is full of well captured emotions and moments of drama that stay in the memory and stir the feelings; moving smartly between brutality of war and the innocence of children in normal moment of life between friends and family. One of the scenes the left a footprint on me is when the boys were laying flat on the tin roofs of their homes hiding from the government military who wants to recruit them.

"Innocent Voices" is worth picking up.