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* PunchClockVillain: The members of the Salvadorian National Guard guarding the border post that Boyle, Maria and her children try to go through at the ending are a ‘’’very’’’ disturbing example. [[spoiler:When they discover that Boyle is a critic of the government, they torture him and are ready to castrate ad murder him. When they receive a counterorder from the capital (thanks to the US ambassador’s intervention), they are more than happy to share a beer with him, laughing out loud all the time.]]
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* PunchClockVillain: The members of the Salvadorian National Guard guarding the border post that Boyle, Maria and her children try to go through at the ending are a ‘’’very’’’ disturbing example. [[spoiler:When they discover that Boyle is a critic of the government, they torture him and are ready to castrate ad and murder him. When they receive a counterorder from the capital (thanks to the US ambassador’s intervention), they are more than happy to share a beer with him, laughing out loud all the time.]]
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* HopeSpot: Two harrowing examples towards the end of the film:
** Two thirds into the movie the rebels unleash their long-awaited offensive, overrun the strategic town of Santa Ana and seem poised to march on the capital and overthrow the right-wing military junta. Cue the US Ambassador ordering American military supplies to the Salvadoran Army to resume [[spoiler:and news arriving in Santa Ana that Colonel Figueroa’s armoured division has broken through the rebels’ defences.]]
** At the end Boyle, Maria and her children are able to leave El Salvador, reach the Mexico-USA border and are waved through after a perfunctory search and questioning. [[spoiler:Then the bus they are traveling on is stopped at a US Immigration interior checkpoint and Maria and her children are arrested to be deported.]]
** Two thirds into the movie the rebels unleash their long-awaited offensive, overrun the strategic town of Santa Ana and seem poised to march on the capital and overthrow the right-wing military junta. Cue the US Ambassador ordering American military supplies to the Salvadoran Army to resume [[spoiler:and news arriving in Santa Ana that Colonel Figueroa’s armoured division has broken through the rebels’ defences.]]
** At the end Boyle, Maria and her children are able to leave El Salvador, reach the Mexico-USA border and are waved through after a perfunctory search and questioning. [[spoiler:Then the bus they are traveling on is stopped at a US Immigration interior checkpoint and Maria and her children are arrested to be deported.]]
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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Thomas Kelly, the US Ambassador in El Salvador, is a good man who is doing his best to rein in the violence that is tearing the country apart.
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* {{Anvilicious}}: Being a film directed by Creator/OliverStone, the underlying message that El Salvador at the time was ruled by a bunch of right-wing brutal fanatics that the US Government should not support is not particularly subtle, nor is expressed in a subdued way.
