Innocent voices is a movie that makes you hurt deeply for all its characters, and does so over and over again. Tony Medley from tonymedley.com discusses in his review that the civil war claimed over 80,000 lives in an 12 year span. This was a tragic loss of life became a part of the boys’ lives over the course of the movie, and you can see the degradation of there hope and outlook on life respectively. No kid should have to go though the daily onslaught of civil war, and I believe many Americans may never understand how blessed they are to live in country where the worst country dividing issues are meager drops of rain in lake, compared the hardships of a place like El Salvador. I was curious to of how significant 80,000 deaths was in a country like El Salvador and it would be the similar (adjusting for population) to if the US had a civil war today and 5,000,000 or more people died. I found that just absolutely shocking. In the movie it casts a very bad light on America, and like in any war…show more content… The resistance was a group known as the FMLN (Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front), and was considered to be terrorist group who drew support from castro. With this in mind one can start to develop what is probably a more realistic and complex situation. A country with an overbearing government and a semi-radical group that but heads and create a swirling mess of conflicts and twisted distorted views that fly around like the bullets the whizz by in this movie. This makes the movie evermore interesting for now you must consider both sides of a story and can find the fault in both. Much like one does when reading about the American civil war which by reading the South's point of view you would think the North was a group of people straight from hell and vise versa. War has a way of writing history in a much more black and white way than it really
