The Japanese version is translated as "The Battlefield of 12 Years Old". I prefer "The Voice of Ignorance" as the title of the film, which is the original meaning and poetic. "Gloomy and damp" is the image system of this film, rain scenes, rain forests, cloudy days, small towns, fearful expressions, secretive expectations, mangoes that are cut and juicy...
The protagonist is like the one in "Swing Gypsy" That tomboy's brother, I like kids that look like that. The mother is beautiful and stoic. The scene of the young son, who calls everyone Daddy, crying and laughing under the bed during the gunfight is impressive and makes people smile -- that's what children are. From time to time, he would come up with some verses, "I will depend on me in the future", "We will be lonely without you" and so on.
Another "children's just like that" episode is the kid who wets his pants with fright when taken by the army, and then shows off and intimidates in front of his erstwhile buddies in full armor. There are too many things in this world that are easy to make people vain, and things outside themselves that are tough enough to shut up the other side. If you've always been humiliated and desperately needed to rise up, then sell your soul to the devil and give you this weapon, will you do it? "I sold my soul to the devil, and he gave me a haunted guitar", I prefer this line of dialogue in "Three Kings".
"Children are like that", Chava's love is also very touching. His silly smile, shy invitation, the shyness and ecstasy of the first kiss and being kissed, the grief after losing... In this world that needs constant vigilance, the restless little animals remind me of Rilke's "Dedicated to Sonnets of Orpheus: "...how we like and shyly yearn for each other, like lambs with a talking book, speaking with our silence. When we are full of joy, it does not belong Anyone, and how it melts in passing adults and worries about a long year..."
Wheels and bullets were all around them, and they hid looking at tanks and chariots, houses sitting in Around them, they are scattered or burned in an instant, the illusion is not strong - they do not know them at all, only the gunfire and the cannon fire are real things, on the question of "who will rule these people we can kill" .
Other scenes and details are still fresh in my memory: the priest's speech before his death; the uncle asked: Do you have a girlfriend? Chava said: Yes, but only one; the expressions of the three children before they were executed were very good. Although everyone reacts very differently to the desperate realization and acceptance of the fact that they are going to die, the grit in the hollow is appropriate; it turns out that this kind of thing is called a paper firefly in El Salvador.
The theme song is very nice:
on the corrugated roof, listening to the sound of rain, the sadness
who lives in the corrugated house, our sad and sad
laborer walks down the mountain, the heavy work, how hard he walks in exhaustion
, he can't get rid of it, endures Working hard
on the hills, leaving behind a pregnant wife
Overlooking the town, shrouded in the clutches of the city, today is the same as
yesterday,
there is no tomorrow . Parasites live in corrugated houses, children's sad puppies, they live happily in exploiters' mansions You may not believe that dogs even have schools to teach them how to nibble newspapers, but over the years the dog's owner , Over the years , the sadness of the children
living in corrugated houses has been gnawing at the laborers
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