Cary Fukunaga's "Beasts of No Nation" [2015]

If anything BoNN is more comperable to blood diamonds. They both have the central theme of orphaned child soldiers.

Hotel rawanda was more about genocide as a result of feuding ethnic groups. Hutus and tutsis were basically an artificial caste created as a result of french colonialism.

Y'all need to turn off the TV and pickup a book
 
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iLLiCiT305 said:
turned the movie off halfway when they were beating on the young girl . i cant watch this im str8 
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Yea this movie was rough--I walked away during the scene he was raped kinda messed me up for a while---I couldn't imagine in my worst nightmare growing up like that
 
I just watched it and I thought the movie was extremely good. I definitely think it's worthy of an Oscar.

I didn't find any scenes hard to watch or anything but I didn't expect it to be this realistic and brutal.

It might be hard to watch for some people but I think it adds to the movie because this is what's really going on with child soldiers over there.

Overall brilliant movie. Whoever played Agu did a great job, Idris Elba too.
 
I may be the only one who didnt find this movie brutal maybe because I have seen Johnny Mad Dog ( this is esentially the same flick with abetter budget and a sort of back story), and i have family who lived through all this stuff.
 
Yeah I'm not gonna follow the argument from earlier but I did watch the movie.

As someone stated earlier this movie is more related to Blood Diamonds than Hotel Rawanda.

I personally think they did a great job of showing what it is like for many child soldiers in Africa. I felt for lil homie living through all that plus being raped by his commander.

I was a bit lost as to why Idris' character refused to be promoted and instead chose to flee with his battalion only to leave them in the middle of the jungle with nothing for so long. Was homie just blood hungry or did he feel like his second in command wasn't fit to lead his unit?
 
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Yeah I'm not gonna follow the argument from earlier but I did watch the movie.

As someone stated earlier this movie is more related to Blood Diamonds than Hotel Rawanda.

I personally think they did a great job of showing what it is like for many child soldiers in Africa. I felt for lil homie living through all that plus being raped by his commander.

I was a bit lost as to why Idris' character refused to be promoted and instead chose to flee with his battalion only to leave them in the middle of the jungle with nothing for so long. Was homie just blood hungry or did he feel like his second in command wasn't fit to lead his unit?
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I believe idris was demoted and the other guy was promoted to Idris current role as commander
 
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I believe idris was demoted and the other guy was promoted to Idris current role as commander
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That was weird to me because the Supreme commander or whatever they called him told Idris it was a promotion.

Also **** that superior commander because dude clearly saw child soldiers with Idris and was like "thats whats up" :smh:
 
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That was weird to me because the Supreme commander or whatever they called him told Idris it was a promotion.

Also **** that superior commander because dude clearly saw child soldiers with Idris and was like "thats whats up" :smh:
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Idk i think Idris wanted a different role, like a non soldier role and dude just gave him a new title but still would require him to be out in the field.

Lol and of course the supreme commander dude disnt care about child soliders, all he wants is the land to be destablized so the asian and european business men can cut him a check.
 
idris was a war criminal

the leader wanted him removed because the conflict was gaining international attention

and it was a promotion in name only

the reason the 2IC was killed when he was with the prosti is because they were going to kill idris but messed up
 
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Hand2HandKing said:
idris was a war criminal

the leader wanted him removed because the conflict was gaining international attention

and it was a promotion in name only

the reason the 2IC was killed when he was with the prosti is because they were going to kill idris but messed up
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Man I remember Idris saying something like "you tried to have me killed" but I figured he was just paranoid.

I genuinely felt like Idris had something to do with 2IC getting killed but it didn't really make sense to me at the time.

I guess we all saw that it was a promotion but it lacked the same power that Idris currently had.
 
no the plan from supreme commander was to take the army from idris, tell him hes being "promoted" and then have him killed
 
One of the best war movies I've ever seen.

I watched a little bit last night and just finished watching the rest a short while ago.

Kid who played Agu should be up for some awards. I'm kinda blown right now. A lot of scenes were sobering and painful to watch.

10/10 for me.
 
Thought this film was great I didn't really like the ending but it's still good. If you dig this you should check out Lumumba
 
Movie studios make movies for the world now a days. Not just for white Americans. Not having white stars is not why it wasn't in theaters. It is a good movie though.
 
Added to my list to watch today. Appreciate it!

Looks informative.
 
Just wanted to say...

This movie socked me right in my feelings man.

Almost cried 4 times for dude.
 
When his dad was gunned down in the firing squad and his brother shortly after.

When he was molested by Iron Jacket & comforted by Strika.

The death of Strika, whom clearly became like a brother for him.

And his ending conversation with the psychologist, in which he acknowledges that after all he's been through... He will never be the same again.

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And the symbolism of him being off the brown, thinking that chick was his mother, then turning and shooting her as she was being raped.

Saw that as him pretty much abandoning the possibility of ever seeing her at that point.
 
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Jay Patt said:
Just wanted to say...

This movie socked me right in my feelings man.

Almost cried 4 times for dude.

 
When his dad was gunned down in the firing squad and his brother shortly after.

When he was molested by Iron Jacket & comforted by Strika.

The death of Strika, whom clearly became like a brother for him.

And his ending conversation with the psychologist, in which he acknowledges that after all he's been through... He will never be the same again.

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And the symbolism of him being off the brown, thinking that chick was his mother, then turning and shooting her as she was being raped.

Saw that as him pretty much abandoning the possibility of ever seeing her at that point.
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The way I looked at it, I felt as though Agu did that woman a favor by killing her.
 
Watching now. Will come back after I finish.

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DAMN is all I gotta say. Solid movie. Sad truth.
 
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LuckyLuchiano said:
I just hate these awards shows are going to treat this as some raw film on "savage Africa" and nobody will be talking about these wars being created by Western Governments to destabilize these nations and suck out the resources. The Director dropped so many little gems in this film that sadly nobody will even notice.
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QFT
 
watch this movie with your families over the holiday 
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Hand2HandKing said:
and what happens when the same hollywood machine blackballs this movie from award consideration?

imo

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I'm saying.....on another note was that actually his mother he killed or was he just high?
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hand2handking hand2handking here's your awards fam

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1365050/awards?mode=desktop



He was just high. All Agu wanted was to be with his mom again after all that happened.

I never got that they wanted to kill the commander (Idris), he was "promoted" somewhere off the field at a lower position because his methods were viewed as bad business. Although I do believe Idris was then jealous and hating 2IC because he was going to take over his squad and he had something to do with 2IC being shot by the prosti.

I thought for a minute Agu & Strika wete gonna have a beef when Agu was becoming "the favorite" and Idris didnt let Strika look thru the scope. At first thought Strika was mad when Idris called Agu up in the lil barrck or w/e. When he walked to the back room i saw the bed, man the wheels in my head were already turning n i was like no no please no. He gave him the hat and said he liked him i immediately was :smh: i felt bad for Agu, Strika sympathized cuz he knew the feels. I

got in my feels when Strika died though :frown: .. got me teary-eyed like when G-Baby got shot
 
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