Children of the War
2007 · 90 MIN · IMDB 8.1 · 103 VOTES · DIR. Alexandre Fuchs
Overview
Hijos de la Guerra (""Children of the War"") is a feature-length documentary film about the world's largest and most violent street gang: the Mara Salvatrucha, also known as MS-13. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has declared the MS-13 the fastest growing and most violent street gang in the United States. Through a series of over 80 interviews (including gang members across several countries, the gang's founders, experts and academics) and powerful footage inside jails in El Salvador, gang-infested neighborhoods of Los Angeles, and Salvadoran communities across the East Coast of the United States, the film sheds light on the root personal reasons for gang membership, the ensuing explosion of fratricidal violence as well as the complex role of social and government policy in both containing and aggravating gang proliferation.
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00:00:05 What is seemingly, on the surface a group of misfits with guns
00:04:25 hospitals, death, prison.
00:07:59 We were fighting guerrillas. Trained in counter-terrorism.
00:12:19 Not the interests of our people.
00:16:05 Within those 3 or 4 there are internal rivalries.
00:19:36 Gangs go into battle dressed for combat.
00:22:10 To watch her get sick while you run up debt?
00:25:04 between rival gangs.
00:27:58 It was that simple. They'd go to the cells
00:31:02 They use it all the time as a way of getting elected.
00:35:12 Each of us have struggled as far we've been able to.
00:38:30 This isn't a sport or tradition, nothing like that.
00:42:01 these people become very meaningful.
00:44:43 that this was a topic that could unite the population
00:46:45 They torture people, commit Satanic acts, everything imaginable.
00:50:32 The government reported 8 homicides per day before the Firm Hand Plan.
00:54:54 There's a social class marginalizing us. We don't want to be marginalized.
00:58:05 Why does the number of gang members keep rising?
01:01:21 Over 100 gang members, mostly MS-13, died as a result.
01:05:29 to see this kind of repression; the killing of 'bad elements'.
01:08:33 as a response to the politics of state repression.
01:11:05 apply apparently simple solutions to very complex issues.
01:14:31 If you know how to learn from living life, experiencing things
01:18:04 and association, among many others we should not take for granted.