Review on "Invisible Children"

This is a documentary film in Sudan of the soldiering of children there. It was an amateur, or raw, film that was filmed by three college students just looking for some story, but they what they found was surprising and shocking. This adventure they took help reveal a story that not very many people knew about. In this documentary tells the story of the kidnapping and turning into solders of children. It tells how children have to travel from miles around to come to one save area that will protect the children from being taken away in the night. This documentary also shows the dangerousness that the three college students went throw just to reveal this story to the world. Not much information or knowledge of child soldiers was out before this and now that it is, changes can be pushed for. The child soldiers are used for a rebel group trying to over throw the Sudan government, and children are kidnapped at an early age and brained washed. This is how the rebel army got it soldiers and how they effectively attack, with children firing at the Sudan army.

I liked this documentary because it is moving and brings forward an issue that not very many people know about. Knowledge is power and with knowing what is going on in the world then we can better push for a better future. I feel that I have a better knowledge of the situation in Sudan and understand more of what is going on due to this documentary. This is a big issue and only one of many in the world that need to be fixed or solved. I hope that this can be solved soon before more children are kidnapped and killed with the fighting and violence. With this knowledge out there and some of the college students that filmed this documentary starting a NGO called “Invisible Children” that helps bring awareness to the issues; this might help and fight against the children soldiers.

This is a huge human rights issue, which violates the convention to protect children. This documentary helps bring forward the issue which needs to be solving to forward in the human rights fight. Hopefully when people see this will bring them to want to help solve this issue is some way. The fight for human rights is still ongoing and a long way to go, but with this documentary it might help people understand what is going on in the world and want to change it.