[Mitbaevents] Movies that Matter Saturday 7:15pm

[Ravi Purushotma]

Hey Everyone --

Some of us were getting together to watch _Innocent Voices_ on
Saturday 7:15 pm in the Sidney Pacific seminar room if you and/or any
friends wanted to join us!

~Ravi


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Based on the true story of screenwriter Oscar Torres's embattled
childhood, Luis Mandoki's Innocent Voices is the poignant tale of
Chava (Carlos Padilla), an eleven-year-old boy who suddenly becomes
the "man of the house" after his father abandons the family in the
middle of a civil war.

In El Salvador in the 1980s, the government's armed forces are already
recruiting twelve year olds, rousting them out of their classes at the
local middle school. If he is lucky, Chava has just one year of
innocence left, one year before he, too, will be conscripted to fight
the government's battle against the peasant rebels of the FMLN.
Chava's life becomes a game of survival, not only from the bullets of
the escalating war, but also from the dispiriting effects of daily
violence. As he hustles to find work to help his single mother pay the
bills, and experiences the pangs of first love for a beautiful
classmate, Chava's tiny home village becomes both playground and
battlefield.

Armed only with the love of his mother (Leonor Varela) and a small
radio that broadcasts a forbidden anthem of love and peace, and faced
with the impossible choice of joining either the army or the rebels,
Chava finds the courage to keep his heart open, and his spirit alive,
in his race against time.

(In Spanish with English Subtitles)
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