Follows the journey of a young boy,
Agu, who is forced to join a group of soldiers in a fictional West African
country. While Agu fears his commander and many of the men around him, his
fledgling childhood has been brutally shattered by the war raging through his
country, and he is at first torn between conflicting revulsion and fascination
Depicts the mechanics of war and does not shy away from explicit, visceral
detail, and paints a complex, difficult picture of Agu as a child soldier. Written by
Bennie Carden
(Courtesy
of Internet Movie Database)
I don’t know if I’d ever be ready to live the reality of
life depicted in the film BEASTS OF NO NATION. When it first appeared on
Netflix I took notice as it starred Idris Alba and at that time I was watching
episodes of LUTHER and enjoyed his performance there. Naturally as things
played out I finally came back around and finally took the plunge into watching
BEASTS OF NO NATION. Having heard of the strife and turmoil of that region and
others from a friend who was from Serria Leone Africa and had his own
terrifying stories to tell I felt prepared enough to understand and view this
film. The story was very compelling and was in a way a coming of age type film.
The performance of Abraham Attah, who played the main character, was as great
as it gets. I truly feel I could recommend this film to a friend and hope they
would enjoy this tragic story as much as I did. So for BEASTS OF NO NATION I
give it 4 stars.
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