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Epic Shows War ‘Through the Eyes of a Child’
Late in the film “Innocent Voices,” the year-old main character waits on his knees to be executed by U.S.-trained government soldiers. Just before our young hero is shot, the country’s leftist guerillas attack and the boy is saved.
Before that happens, though, a soldier shoots another boy in the back of the head, and the camera lingers on him as he falls forward, breaking film conventions against showing violence against children on-screen.
“Innocent Voices,” Mexico’s official submission for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, is built on the experiences of its co-writer, Oscar Torres, from his childhood during El Salvador’s civil war. Torres lived through these events, and wrote from the perspective of his year-old self.
“The night before we shot [the execution scene], I was doing the shot list in my room,” says director Luis Mandoki in an interview with The Harvard Crimson. Mandoki helped Torres turn his draft into a completed sc
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All About War Movies
Based on a true story, Luis Mandoki&#;s Voces Inocentes aka Innocent Voices is going directly on my list of all time favourites, regardless of the genre. This Mexico/US/Puerto Rico co-production is an astonishingly beautiful movie despite the atrocities it depicts. It is simply awesome and as good as Army of Crime about which I raved last year. It is one of the movies on my Children in War Movies List and a s such worth watching in any case.
What makes this movie so incredible is the fact that it works on many levels. It is as much the story of a childhood and a little boy, as an in-depth look at a way of life we are less than familiar with and a civil war we have almost forgotten about. Last but not least it shows the portrait of a mother (Leonor Varela) whose spirited fight and love for her children makes her one of the most memorable and dignified characters I have seen in any movie.
The war, that started in and lasted 12 years, was initially a conflic
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Voces inocentes
film
| Voces Inocentes | |
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Theatrical release poster | |
| Directed by | Luis Mandoki |
| Written by | Luis Mandoki Óscar stad i florida Torres |
| Based on | Óscar Torres's childhood |
| Produced by | Lawrence Bender Luis Mandoki Alejandro Soberón Kuri |
| Starring | Carlos Padilla Leonor Varela Xuna Primus |
| Cinematography | Juan Ruiz Anchía |
| Edited by | Aleshka Ferrero |
| Music by | André Abujamra |
Production | Santo Domingo Films |
| Distributed by | Lionsgate(El Salvador&#;; theatrical) 20th Century Fox(international) Polychrome Pictures(U.S.A release) |
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Running time | minutes |
| Countries | Mexico El Salvador |
| Language | Spanish |
| Box office | $5,, ( $, (United States) |
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