Beasts Of No Nation Film Analysis

The newly released movie called Beasts of No Nation is about “a civil war that rages in Africa. In the movie a fierce warlord trains a young orphan in joining his group of guerrilla soldiers” (Google 2015). The movie portrays an average African boy by the name of Agu. Agu had a father, a mother, and two siblings. Tensions were appearing when the people of Agu’s village knew that the army was going to attack to counter the rebels. Only Agu’s father was supposed to stay behind to defend their land and property but it turned out that Agu and his older brother had to remain as well. Only Agu’s mother and newborn were able to flee. Before he last saw his mother, she told him to always pray to God. Agu’s childhood fell to pieces when his father was executed for being a suspected ‘spy’ and when his older brother was shot right beside him, when attempting to escape execution. When watching the movie, a noticeable trait amongst the African children and teenagers is that they’re all happy despite living with hardships and during a hard time such as the civil war. The movie did
He clinged to the woman and after realizing that she was not his mother, he and his rebel buddies took her daughter and beat her to death. Later, he found the other rebels raping the mother and couldn’t stand seeing the sight, he shot her in the head. In conclusion, the movie is gruesome and the fact that it’s actually based off of real life is tough to comprehend. It wasn’t any different than watching what Hitler did to his victims. In the movie, many innocent lives were taken even though the people didn’t mean any harm. Beasts Of No Nation truly opens up the eyes of the watcher and shows them what the African civil war was actually like. The sight of all the violence makes me realize that videogames such as Call of Duty are such a delusion in depicting war. War is a serious threat to families and is absolutely no