Best movie of this year hands down!

good back-story, and good acting

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

This is the second time that I have seen the movie Innocent Voices. The first time I saw it was in Costa Rica on a school service trip. This movie did a fantastic job of showing the viewers how intense and dangerous the civil war was in El Salvador. The children and really everyone was never able to feel 100% safe. The young main character, Chava, was deeply afraid of turning 12 because the soldiers were able to recruit children if they were 12 and older. They would show up at the schools or even the homes and just take the children, the parents had no say. It was very saddening to see the way things were and all the hardships Chava and his family went through. Chava saw two of his friends get shot in the head and was almost killed many times himself. All together I think that it was a really good movie that kept my attention and interest.

I have now seen this movie twice and I have greatly enjoyed it both times. It is more of a suspenseful movie as you have to wait for things to work themselves out. Chava was definitely my favorite character in the movie even though he was a bit stubborn at times. I've never seen a movie that has a plot relating to this one, where once you turn 12 you are taken to the military and forced to fight against rebel forces. That sounds terrifying to me as I think back on my twelve year old self. I couldn't do that! It's very easy to tell that this is nothing like an American film because for one, speaking Spanish, and the cultural values are much different than that of Americans. Overall, I liked this movie and how it is based off a true event that took place in El Salvador and I wouldn't change the ending at all as Chava was reunited with his mother.

Innocent Voices is based on the true story of a young boy growing up in war torn El Salvador. Chava, and his family, know that once he turns 12 the Salvadorian army will come and take him away to become a child soldier. Since his father left, Chava is the 'man of the house' and helps to bring in income to support his mother and two younger siblings. He keeps his siblings safe from the bullets coming through the wall of their house during the gun fights between the guerrillas and the army. The cinematography in this film is fabulous and the casting was perfect. Sometimes the amount of violence seems almost exaggerated and it is a harrowing thought to think that children went, and are going, through this. This was an amazing, touching movie.

I really like this movie because is very realistic referring to the civil war in El Salvador. It shows how government and the left hand political view had such a horrible war in El Salvador. I was born in El Salvador at the time when everything was about to finish, but now that I'm an adult is really sad to realized how everything happened, how innocent children were killed. This movie shows the injustice the military force had over those poor and innocents women and children. My parents were not in El Salvador at the time so they never really talk about how the thing worked over the war. After I watched, I asked some of my dad's uncles and they told that it actually was that bad as it's shown on the movie.I can't say too much about it because I wasn't even born when everything happen, but thanks to released such a good movie. It makes people like me to know more about the government point of view and the "guerrilla" thinking. The movie depicts the story of a little boy, "Chava", who lives just with his mother and the military drafted him to fight against the guerrilla. Trough that his story when he had to see how the military killed his best friend and others kids around the edges of 11-12, is how we can have a perception of those injustices against children in general.