Female Immigrant Subjectivities And The Politics Of Voice

During the decade of the eighties in El Salvador, the government would armed forces and recruit children that are approximately twelve years old out of their schools. Since Chava is only eleven years old, he still has a year of innocence, which means a year before he is conscripted to fight against the rebels of Farabundo Marà ­i National Liberation Front (FMLN). Chava’s life becomes at risk since it is a game of survival and he carries negative effects with violence. Although with the love of his mother and with a classmate, Chava finds the bravery to keep positive understandings and stay alert against time before he might get recruited. According to Yahaira Padilla, in Hermanas lejanas? Female Immigrant Subjectivities and the Politics of†¦show more content†¦This film was taken place before by Oscar Torres; the person who co-wrote the script was once situated before becoming a teenager. Torres wanted to parallel his ending when he landed to the United States at the same time when Chava left El Salvador. On the other hand, Luis Mandoki, a Mexican film director that enjoys putting real life situations in a movie. While reading â€Å"Re-membering the Nation: Gap and Reckoning within Biographical Accounts of Salvadoran Émigrà ©s† by Susan Bibler Coutin compares and contrast the narratives of after the Civil War in El Salvador. During those twelve years of war, majority of people were separated because of international emigration and violence (Coutin 2011). In contrast, Coutin argues to the audience that Central American minorities narrate their personal experience just to relink their historical events, just as Torres. There are many war films that can relate to â€Å"Voces Inocentes†, but unfortunately it is rare that a twelve-year-old kid tells the story throughout his own experience. I guarantee that most people would not want to live around a ‘barrio’ that is around with death like the one in this film. On the other hand, Mandoki prefers to show the brutal that military soldiers would do at the time to the children; death and terror. The film tends to bring different tones such like having its humor once in a while and how