MR : Beasts without nation

 

Beasts without nation

 

The atrocities of the war as narrated by a Nigerian author. Most of the African countries have cvile wars for more than 1 century with most governments corrupted  This happened to the most countries in Africa. I still remember stories in Congo Nigeria and many other centra African countries. I can suspect that the language used in the movie   an be Hausa or Yoruba two of the most used in Nigeria. Or Gambia as someone else noticed?

Now back to the movie. As many mentioned in the imdb page  and clearly shown in the movie  the army of the new established junta a killed the family of a young child without any significant jury and reason with a total trivial or stupid logic :

If you re not ours , you are with them .

This also reminds the history of the civil war after the WII in Greece . The after resistance troops did exactly the with people who had different political or even monetary differences or other personal reasons but sometimes with innocent people ie relatives of the killed.

The troop  Aggu was recruited was managed by a arrogant person with a very good  manipulator of poor minded people  although I feel him using cheesy cheesy talks s wuitrh very wooden language until the end of the movie as none cold be effected by his methods. The reasons of fighting are neatly  the same with the army’s with more emphasis that none other can really him except the  troop members who are his family.

The movie is quite long at 2 hours and surely something could be cut . really after the 2/3 pf the film I lost my interest except in the end when Agu his self analysis .

Everything has been done for nothing as another story member told later

Many scenes were quite tough or brutal for anyone not previously watching  movies of Tarantino or Rodriguez (machete series for example ) which are even more violent though perfectly  fake. 

Beasts without nation This is the title of the movie told by Agu before story ends. Really  being recruited for a troop makes someone losing his interest for life and  th dedicated  as a soldier without any other meaning for his life especially when he is so young, around 9-10 years old .

Although for a African movie you expect a rather amateurish production, this movie uses an excellent equipment and filmography  like it was designed by an American director

 

8/10