I was rummaging through the disc stand last week and came across this disc. Never heard of it, but was fascinated by the cover: beautiful sculptural face, eyes that don't belong to an 11 year old! I was curious and bought it immediately. It's just about war, there's some conflict.
Introduction of the film: "In the 1980s, there was a civil war between the Salvadoran government army and the guerrillas, and the child had to go to the battlefield when he was 12 years old. At the age of 11, Qi Hua became the only pillar of the family because his father left without saying goodbye. At school, I had a simple and sweet first love with a beautiful female classmate. Seeing that Qi Hua's 12th birthday is approaching, his heart with his mother is getting heavier and heavier. Will there be miracles in life? He won the Berlin Film Festival Crystal Bear Award, Mexican Film Academy Award for Best Actress, Oscar nominee for Best Foreign Language Film."
After watching, the film is very good, touching and poignant.
The soldiers are right in front of you, the bullets are around, but it is still a very childish childhood, naughty, curious, slapstick among peers, play between siblings, and even ignorant love. It's just that at the age of 12, he will be drafted into the army, and the day that boys are afraid of.
The hanged priest, the slaughtered child, the broken skirts of the beloved girl scattered in the black ruins... All cruelty will not stop for a child's childhood. In the night with the sound of guns, the guitar sings and sings, but the war has no end. When prayer is powerless to save, who can do anything?
Without film, wars are just repeated news footage and mind-numbing casualties. When film made everything real, there was hope, that none of that ever happened.
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