{"id":48890,"date":"2026-02-28T00:02:40","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T08:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=48890"},"modified":"2026-02-28T08:31:37","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T16:31:37","slug":"silent-struggle-sara-salamo-2025-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=48890","title":{"rendered":"Silent Struggle (Sara Salamo, 2025): Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reviewed by Salma Morales. Viewed at SBIFF.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-27-at-6.16.26-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-49220\" src=\"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-27-at-6.16.26-PM-325x222.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"325\" height=\"222\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; float: left\" srcset=\"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-27-at-6.16.26-PM-325x222.png 325w, https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-27-at-6.16.26-PM-768x524.png 768w, https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-27-at-6.16.26-PM.png 937w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 325px) 100vw, 325px\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">El Silencio, also known as <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Silent Struggle, followed<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> along the journey of Isco Alarc\u00f3n. During his season with a new team, he had gotten injured on his foot and was in a boot. His wife made this documentary therefore we could follow along his healing journey and show us behind the scenes of how this act held him at a chokehold mentally and physically. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The editing was never too fast to cut to the next scene, it lingered to show the afterfact of what Isco was feeling, as if we\u2019re in pain with him and not cutting time to heal faster. Since Isco was feeling alone, most scenes were filmed of him being isolated for training\/ gym, appointments, throughout the documentary. The team&#8217;s colors were white and green- the whole documentary stuck to the green color scheme, ranging from darks to lights and to pastels. The pallet was very strict and not as vague compared to other films\/ documentaries. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As there are lots of stories that follow an athletes recovery process, all go through a stage of isolation and start to believe in doubt. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I felt this documentary was great to watch, it has its unique touches and is not like others. It was very personalized to Isco, Sara Salamo worked in a way that this documentary is hers- her style is modern but something new audiences could get into and enjoy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reviewed by Salma Morales. Viewed at SBIFF. El Silencio, also known as Silent Struggle, followed along the journey of Isco Alarc\u00f3n. During his season with a new team, he had gotten injured on his foot and was in a boot. His wife made this documentary therefore we could follow along his healing journey and show [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":249147,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,3,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-documentary","category-films","category-santa-barbara-film-festival-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/249147"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48890"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49224,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48890\/revisions\/49224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}