Icebox, written and directed by Daniel Sawka - 8.3 out of 10

Icebox, written and directed by Daniel Sawka
8.3 out of 10


For the last couple of days, CNN has aired the photo of a father and daughter that have drowned trying to cross the American border.

This tragedy has caused many reactions...probably Trump would consider something else, alongside his stupid wall.
It highlights the perils that immigrants face when they try to escape their dangerous countries.

At the center of this powerful film we have the plight, the suffering of a boy that is caught at the border and then sent to the now infamous children cages of the loathsome Trump regime.
Anthony Gonzales is stupendous in the main role of Oscar, a traumatized refugee.

As he states in a court of law, he was trapped by a Honduran gang, the tattoos on his chest prove that.
He saw them kill in the street a child, whose family could not even get access to his body.

What he describes is horrendous and yet the American justice system does not seem to take note of that.
Except to affirm that his participation in criminal activities probably make him ineligible for the asylum.

The judge does not seem to take into account the fact that this child is a victim.
Oscar had been abused, scared, blackmailed and beaten.

He receives a beating in one of the cages in which they keep children in the Land of the Free.
CNN reports that children do not have soap, toothpaste and many sleep on the concrete floor.

This is not in the Icebox movie, it is happening in real life.
In one scene from the film, one of the child detainees tells Oscar...

Pretend you are talking on the phone...it is warmer here.
They are allowed, reluctantly to make a phone call, and in the arena designed for the calls they do not suffer from the cold they endure back in their cages.

An impressive motion picture!