Unfortunately, I felt like I was watching a Mexican movie. The Mexican actors who contributed in this movie are very talented and I applaud to them with admiration but it didn't touch me because I could hear the Mexican accents on the actors. Really? how many salvadorean did you check that could do these roles? I think it could have been an enormous success if they were portrayed by Salvadoreans. We have talent in our country you just have to look, it is not hard to find. Anyway, Salvadorean don't say "Chava" we say "Chamba". Any salvadorean can tell you that. Another thing, the guerrilla was portrayed as the favorites, the "good" guys. They were very disruptive, they came into our classrooms and always interrupted our class. Always yelling and taking possession of school property. When the army tried to take them out from the school properties, we the students we were always in danger because of them. Many times we had to cover ourselves because they decided to have a fight with the army and hide in our school. How many times I had to stop going to school because they were burning the buses, of course, the bus company had to stop the bus circulation. They destroyed telephone boots anything that was on their way. Weakening the infrastructures they said, but the affected ones were the population. Yes, we were all in risk of being taken by the army but the guerrilla was also doing the same. I am sorry but this just brought me bad memories from my childhood. Good movie but it could have been better if you hadn't taken sides on one faction only.

Innocent Voices is based on the true story of a young boy growing up in war torn El Salvador. Chava, and his family, know that once he turns 12 the Salvadorian army will come and take him away to become a child soldier. Since his father left, Chava is the 'man of the house' and helps to bring in income to support his mother and two younger siblings. He keeps his siblings safe from the bullets coming through the wall of their house during the gun fights between the guerrillas and the army. The cinematography in this film is fabulous and the casting was perfect. Sometimes the amount of violence seems almost exaggerated and it is a harrowing thought to think that children went, and are going, through this. This was an amazing, touching movie.

I really like this movie because is very realistic referring to the civil war in El Salvador. It shows how government and the left hand political view had such a horrible war in El Salvador. I was born in El Salvador at the time when everything was about to finish, but now that I'm an adult is really sad to realized how everything happened, how innocent children were killed. This movie shows the injustice the military force had over those poor and innocents women and children. My parents were not in El Salvador at the time so they never really talk about how the thing worked over the war. After I watched, I asked some of my dad's uncles and they told that it actually was that bad as it's shown on the movie.I can't say too much about it because I wasn't even born when everything happen, but thanks to released such a good movie. It makes people like me to know more about the government point of view and the "guerrilla" thinking. The movie depicts the story of a little boy, "Chava", who lives just with his mother and the military drafted him to fight against the guerrilla. Trough that his story when he had to see how the military killed his best friend and others kids around the edges of 11-12, is how we can have a perception of those injustices against children in general.

This is a wonderful movie. Amazing actors, especially the kids, beautiful and also disturbing pictures about the life in a war zone. Well made directing by a formerly Hungarian director(just like me). And of course the heartbreaking music too makes this movie unforgettable. It's sad that what we can see here are real...shame for those people who want more and more power by killing others. Spanish voice is the best here. I don't know why, but it's more powerful with the original language. Truly moving piece of cinema art! I'm really happy to have this movie at home. A war movie where we can see teardrops falling into river of blood on the dirty floor... A must see!