How someone could reject the silent army? This is a sensitive film on a question of real world deeply troubling (child soldiers in East Africa), made by a Director who feels clearly very strongly on the issue of a point of view personal (grew up in the region) and humanitarian angle (that is the right thing to do).
Ok... If anything, maybe Jean Van De Velde takes a little too? This ought to be powerful watch savagery moved an empty war - two children, an abducted rural villagers and press-ganged in the fight for the rebel army, the son of the head desperately to save. Instead of this, it becomes something to halfway between Blood Diamond and things are going from the 1980s to chance – ho action brazzell sent directly to the video.
Founder of points in the path under the weight of the melodrama too saccharin, voltage fluctuations that heads nowhere in particular script and the importance is paralysed by some particularly inept characterization comes painfully close to a parody of liberal white guilt over.
How to interpret, when barely five minutes Abu, the poor black kid receives a controller video game carved in wood from his father, then will play with Thomas, its rich friend best white happily accepts this by for the course? It isn't as if it could never happen, more that Van De Velde, it calls instantly appears as a play of sympathy of the audience. Take the way in which it is the first thing that the Viewer is expected to focus on and that the scene is in place, including ridicule human indoor moralism. Spike Lee
How to interpret when Van De Velde spends so much time on that first revolves around one of the most basic tragedies introduction sequence families can suffer (flagrant pulling feelings again) and secondly, is probably useless? Characters abound, dialogue of grids and acting just passes the rally. Ninety seconds of exposure carefully would have more effect.
And even if the plot slowly gathers pace, once that village rebels raid Abu, Director undermines this almost instantly with the realization that Yes, father Thomas' Edouard (head) will really engage naive entreaties his son, they will save his friend. There is no reasoning with him, not even any attempt to establish how stupidly it would be dangerous - Edouard battling with guilt about shortcomings, as a father consists of helpless at work, while arguing with her son to move the object of research.
After Van De Velde double back again unable to decide if it should be lionising Eduard or mocking his incompetence. Authorities to freeze with barely disguised contempt (same referral of a clumsy Schindler list) that it cannot find a back - but we then get all the severity, a jaded and attractive female aid worker seduced by its stubborn persistence that accepts him.
No gels, if that thoughtful, considered to be politicized, pure evasion or anything between. Each time that impress is quickly followed with a so tired cliche and lifeless to cause potential wasted screen real mental distress. Van De Velde is far from Edward Zwick - he never once stoops noble wild tropes or characters of marginalizing black - but it does not seem to understand how the army Silent no more than a weak cry of the heart.
Compare with Johnny Mad Dog Jean-Stephane Sauvaire; same parcel basis points (can a child soldier being released from the virtual slavery?), but without the white player well intentioned and feeling anxious emergency Sauvaire is simply the best film. Johnny Mad Dog feels really dangerous, almost unhinged, to the point where it is impossible to predict which could live and to die. The same scenes could hardly be more different - two films featuring rebel force a "Rookie" to assassinate a parent telling, but Johnny Mad Dog, is a nightmare. Army Silent feels too much put thing staged by Golan Globus.
Similar film outclasses it. Africa-set horror of death Ford's sister is a film of zombies and across, sometimes to his detriment, but it feels even much more coherent and credible, with a sense these individuals and anonymous it (or had) a life beyond the film. Van De Velde barely gives a sense of history, any real sense of place or characterization beyond tourist postcards and willing to waste and a father inexplicably tormented turn into a saint.
Silent army simply not living up to its promise, the opening of saccharin in stupidly invented final setpiece. Jean Van De Velde and his crew are clearly eager to do something positive for what is undoubtedly a humanitarian disaster with no easy solution in sight, but they seem to be so desperate to prove a man can make a difference, they lose any restraint and at the end with a trade-off between generic shiftless charm and flag. There are countless ways to better to entertain or educate yourself and as such, the Silent army can really be recommended.
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