For a long time, El Salvador has been one of the poorest countries in Central America. Years of war have caused the people to live in poverty, but if it only talks about the war and the conflict between the two gangs, the film itself is bound to have less connotation, and it will be different when it comes to children. Mandoki focused his attention on a little boy in the war zone. Chawa, his father was not with him, and his mother brought his family with him. The shuttle bullets were just a normal part of life, as usual as playing dodgeball and throwing sandbags.
This is a life like purgatory, but Mandoki deliberately avoided the feelings of bitterness and hatred, and spent a lot of pen and ink on the children's happy days, saying "happy", in fact, it is just an optimistic spirit in the cracks. The beginning of the love affair with the little girl, coupled with the madness of the silly big man, is a lot more interesting, but it always has to form a dramatic contrast at the end.
The film does not clearly stand on the government or the anti-government armed forces. Of course, the most disgusting thing for the audience is the hiring of Boy Scouts. In our eyes, children are always a kind of future, and they are the offspring that can be carved into beautiful things. as a tool. So in the most dramatic scene, Chava dropped the weapon in his hand and ran away from his former friends, which still showed Mandoki's mainstream value orientation - the hope of El Salvador's future, not to sink.
In the end, the family moved away from home, crying and roaring in the flames, and the mother's greatest wish was very simple, just to let the child leave and go to a safe place.
A small country seeks to survive in the interests of a big country, and there must be times of suffering. The United States played a disgraceful role in the 12-year civil war. Even the American people realize that this method of seizing interests is based on Above the great suffering of other countries, as Peter, Paul and Mary sing:
Just like Poland is 'protected' by her Russian friends
The junta is 'assisted' by Americans
And if 60 million dollars seems too much to spend
in El Salvador
They say for half a billion they could do it right
Bomb all day, burn all night
Until there's not a living thing upright
in El Salvador
They'll continue training troops in the USA
And watch the nuns that got away
And teach the military bands to play South of the Border
And kill the people to set them free
Who put this price on their liberty?
Don't you think it's time to leave
El Salvador?
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