American Richard Boyle was a journalist who lost his job because of alcohol and drugs, and his wife left him because he couldn't stand it. The announcer Roque also lost his job. In 1980, under Boyle's persuasion, the two came to Salvador to take pictures of war themes, hoping to exchange money for it. In the chaotic Salvador, they risked their lives to take many rare photos. Boyle fell in love with the Boyle woman Maria, and he managed to move Maria's family to a relatively safe place. At this time, Salvador's right-wing military leaders, with the support of American military advisers and intelligence officers, suppressed Partizan , and a fierce war broke out. In support of Partizan, with the help of U.S. Ambassador Kelly and journalist John Cassady, Boyle is determined to bring the atrocities of the "Death Squad" to light. After the situation spirals out of control, Boyle tries to send Maria and her children into the U.S. secretly, but at the border, U.S. immigration authorities deport the Salvador people, including Maria, and Boyle is alone again as before. Live a poor and lonely life.
Salvador movie plot
2022-03-15 08:01
Extended Reading
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Jacey 2022-03-15 09:01:11
It is almost impossible for the truth to be concealed, expanded or distorted in the face of political power. . . The so-called aid of the United States is also purely out of its own political interests, and it has undoubtedly become a beautiful cover for the so-called just people.
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Kaya 2022-03-15 08:01:02
It continues the anti-war stance of "Field Platoon" and its criticism of American politics (Mary, who was repatriated at the end, and the straightforward word card are both intrusive accusations), but there is an additional layer of questioning about left-wing resistance forces. Photojournalist Richard was originally a spectator and opportunist, but because of his reunion with his old lover Maria, he became a party and victim of the turbulent political situation in El Salvador, and a scene of hell on earth slowly unfolded in front of the audience. Correspondingly, the two key plot nodes of the style change are quite powerful: first, when the protagonist first entered El Salvador, the military shot and killed a teenager without a permit in the street. The description was drawn to El Salvador, which was under fire; the second was the assassination of Archbishop Romero. After that, the plot became more and more desperate: church women were ruthlessly raped and murdered, fellow reporter John died under fire, and the protagonist was twice removed from the government. The army escaped from death. The audio-visual language is real and terrifying, showing the brutal war scene with great impact, and the successive dramatic climaxes in the second half are even more oppressive and almost physically uncomfortable.
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Richard Boyle: Is that why you're here, Colonel? Some kind of post-Vietnam experience like you need a rerun or something? You pour a hundred twenty million bucks into this place, you turn it into a military zone, so what, so you can have chopper parades in the sky?
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Richard Boyle: [drunkenly waves a blade at the thugs surrounding him] You're gonna have to fucking kill me. You ain't fucking taking me alive!