Beasts of No Nation: Crash Course Film Criticism #14
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Date: 2022-04-04
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HVYContent
If you watch the documentaries Vice TV made about Monrovia, Liberia (Cannibal War Lords) and the one about Central Africa, you'll understand this movie better.
There's a dude in the movie who's butt naked, and there was a real life general name General Butt Naked who went around with a child army that performed blood sacrifices on innocent kids so that his army drink could drink the blood.
He would also get them all hopped up on liquor and heroin before battles.
Look it up.
Anyways, this film hit all bases when it came to these topics, so Fukunaga really set the right type of tone in this one. Great film and Agu's character development was real as hell. Overall quality acting and work
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If you watch the documentaries Vice TV made about Monrovia, Liberia (Cannibal War Lords) and the one about Central Africa, you'll understand this movie better.
There's a dude in the movie who's butt naked, and there was a real life general name General Butt Naked who went around with a child army that performed blood sacrifices on innocent kids so that his army drink could drink the blood.
He would also get them all hopped up on liquor and heroin before battles.
Look it up.
Anyways, this film hit all bases when it came to these topics, so Fukunaga really set the right type of tone in this one. Great film and Agu's character development was real as hell. Overall quality acting and work
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[Ae]stheticSwim
It's weird when you watch the movie in the beginning and see how the government slaughters innocent people, it leaves you rooting for the rebels, the NDF, but as it progresses you see the NDFs true colors, it leaves you disillusioned, it leaves you wondering what cause is really right, it leaves you feeling nihilistic and empty, it leaves you numb, then in the end there's hope, but we're left not knowing if we can walk away with this newfound hope, if we can grow past what we did, there's no changing what we did, it will always haunt us, and that it's what keeps me up at night
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It's weird when you watch the movie in the beginning and see how the government slaughters innocent people, it leaves you rooting for the rebels, the NDF, but as it progresses you see the NDFs true colors, it leaves you disillusioned, it leaves you wondering what cause is really right, it leaves you feeling nihilistic and empty, it leaves you numb, then in the end there's hope, but we're left not knowing if we can walk away with this newfound hope, if we can grow past what we did, there's no changing what we did, it will always haunt us, and that it's what keeps me up at night
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Huw
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After the scene involving Agu walking away from the Commandant's room after being abused I had to pause the movie for a coffee break. There was one way in which Agu had not had his childhood stolen from him up to that point, and then the Commandant robbed him of that too.
Beasts Of No Nation is one of the hardest-to-watch (in the right way) movies I've ever seen in my life, maybe THE hardest. Probably only Platoon has come close to hitting me the way this movie did. Such an incredible movie, and props to Crash Course for doing a video about it.
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After the scene involving Agu walking away from the Commandant's room after being abused I had to pause the movie for a coffee break. There was one way in which Agu had not had his childhood stolen from him up to that point, and then the Commandant robbed him of that too.
Beasts Of No Nation is one of the hardest-to-watch (in the right way) movies I've ever seen in my life, maybe THE hardest. Probably only Platoon has come close to hitting me the way this movie did. Such an incredible movie, and props to Crash Course for doing a video about it.
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Mikayel
the only problem is that there are no likeable charecters, the boy was kidnaped ''pun intended'' then turns worse than the peapole who killed his mother, and he never gets punnished i know hes a kid but from the dark things hes done id shank him myself its soo gritty that there are no likeable charecters if you dont like that dont watch it
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the only problem is that there are no likeable charecters, the boy was kidnaped ''pun intended'' then turns worse than the peapole who killed his mother, and he never gets punnished i know hes a kid but from the dark things hes done id shank him myself its soo gritty that there are no likeable charecters if you dont like that dont watch it
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sam
the commandant isnt demoted. he is promoted. (more of a fork in his career path) the promotion would give him political power, he instead wanted to be promoted to general(more of a hands on power as hed be in direct command of more field troops) which he feels would have been better(so its implied through his eyes that its actually a demotion)
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the commandant isnt demoted. he is promoted. (more of a fork in his career path) the promotion would give him political power, he instead wanted to be promoted to general(more of a hands on power as hed be in direct command of more field troops) which he feels would have been better(so its implied through his eyes that its actually a demotion)
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Johnny
I was an aid worker at the very beginning of the Liberian civil war and was in Charles Taylor controlled territory. this movie captures it pretty well. you would come across 12 year olds armed and stoned manning the too many bamboo road blocks as you travelled the red dirt back country roads.
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I was an aid worker at the very beginning of the Liberian civil war and was in Charles Taylor controlled territory. this movie captures it pretty well. you would come across 12 year olds armed and stoned manning the too many bamboo road blocks as you travelled the red dirt back country roads.
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thijsvox
Incredible movie, just rewatched it for the 2nd or 3rd time. Very powerful and in my humble opinion a movie that everyone could gain something from watching. Definitely helps you to look at civil / intrastate wars differently.
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Incredible movie, just rewatched it for the 2nd or 3rd time. Very powerful and in my humble opinion a movie that everyone could gain something from watching. Definitely helps you to look at civil / intrastate wars differently.
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Jboy
This movie was seriously one of the best movies I-ve ever seen. What a masterpiece. A story that breaks your heart and the fact that this is happening with so many children in real life makes that feeling a thousand times worse.
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This movie was seriously one of the best movies I-ve ever seen. What a masterpiece. A story that breaks your heart and the fact that this is happening with so many children in real life makes that feeling a thousand times worse.
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Natcha
This movie is point about the bigest problem that UN concern becasuse now aday child problem have been in any place thus have no peaceful eg. Somewhere in Affrica South east Asia.
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This movie is point about the bigest problem that UN concern becasuse now aday child problem have been in any place thus have no peaceful eg. Somewhere in Affrica South east Asia.
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