82%User score 82 percent
Innocent Voices
2005 · Drama · War
User Score
450 votes
Survival is a cruel game.
On a faraway mountaintop, eight kids with guns watch over a hostage and a conscripted milk cow.
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SWITCH.
August 5, 2019
Perhaps the best way to describe the film is to keep it simple: ‘Monos’ is a mood, an aesthetic, an idea; a sensory cinematic experience more than a story. - Jake Watt Read Jake's full article... https://www.maketheswitch.com.au/article/review-monos-a-hypnagogic-mix-of-teen-angst-and-warfare
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Stephen Campbell
November 18, 2019
**_A bleak allegorical study of war as seen through the eyes of children_** >_The idea comes from, in many ways, the country where I'm from, Colombia, a country that's experienced 60 years of civil war. And it's been going on for so long, and there are so many different factions and sides, and there's peace agreements and they break, so, in a way, it wasn't something you could go at with clear ideological premises, b…
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December 22, 2019
Monos is a film that's both raw, and abstract. Incredibly well done and surprisingly well acted by the young cast. An interesting look at those who are essentially nothing more than pawns of a game they don't even understand, but I liked it a lot that the focus is not on it but on this group of young people and the experience is as crude and strange as it is mesmerizing.
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CinemaSerf
December 11, 2025
Now we’re not given too much of a preamble here, suffice to say that we arrive at an hilltop bunker where eight lads ranging from late teens to only just lost their baby teeth are holding two hostages. One is an American doctor (Julianne Nicholson) and the other is a milk cow. Amidst all their guns, machetes and grenades these men know that it’s the beast that will explode loudest of it isn’t milked regularly and so…
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