The cautionary tale The Quiet Son succeeds in building is not one on the perverse sneakiness of recruitment but on the dangers of rooting a story solely on the flimsiness of good intentions.

And what started off as something political becomes something deeply and painfully personal.

How the extreme ideologies catch the youth people. [Full review in Spanish]

The actors do their best with weak material that never probes too deeply into not just the characters’ psychology but the systems around them that shape their behaviour.