October is the month when people return to watch
zombies in the Walking Dead or scary movies of various different genres and
sub-genres, but nothing is scarier than truth and that is why Beasts of No
Nation is one of the harshest, emotionally draining movies you can watch this
horror season.
Written for screen and directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga
(True Detective, Season One) gives us a tale of a African child Agu (Abraham
Attah), who in the story that eats you for 2 hours and 10 minutes provides an
multi-faced perspective of transformation from an innocent youth to a guerrilla
rebel fighting against the corrupt t under his Commandant (Idris Elba), who
seeks revolution for his people, but the story doesn’t stop there. The movie
gives explicit hints what happens behind the scenes of any war between Warlords
as outside business men with suitcases come changing politics and agendas of
war, but the fight must persist because there must be some cause for the war
orphans to pillage, rape and slaughter in the name of revolution.
The movie might be fictional, but the story it tells
is all very real in today’s world. We live in a world where little children
have to rise up and fight against their own brothers on the sole purpose of
lands being sold, gold mining and oil is drilled all for the sake of capitalism.
Children are born to die in a war. That is what you
call horror.
Beasts of No Nation is available now on Netflix &
is based off the novel by the same name byUzodinma
Iweala.
