Based on the same-titled novel by Uzodinma Iweala, a Nigerian doctor and sociologist who began the story as a thesis project at Harvard, the movie immediately puts us in the shoes (and sometimes bare feet) of its hero, eight year old Agu ( Abraham Attah ). The novel follows the journey of a young boy, Agu, who is forced to join a group of soldiers in an unnamed West African country. Go behind the scenes of Netflix TV shows and movies, see what's coming soon and watch bonus videos on. The children of Germany Year Zero and Johnny Mad Dog do not articulate their feelings regarding their debased environments. As does Fukunagas prominent use of color. In his directorial debut, Robert Townsend channeled his frustrations with the typecasting of Black actors, resulting in a satire whose hilarious critique of Hollywood still resonates today. This is a film that came out of no where.delivers an experience Ill never forget. Unlike most studio offerings of last year, this Netflix indie reminds everyone of the importance of story in cinema. Genre: The Scenery was beautiful and it wasn't really nothing special but it's hard for me these days to come across a movie that I can rate over a 7 and this one is a 8 in my book. These films take their cues from an established and ongoing Western literary tradition wherein the exotic continent, supposedly populated by beasts and brutes, requires white eyes to peer into and reveal its mysteries. Based on a true story. He was at first a very innocent kid scared to be apart of the fight but when circumstances force him to join the violence he has only one choice. 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Agu suffers from drug withdrawal and is tormented by what has happened and has nightmares about it. Fukunaga followed that grim saga with a vividly bleak 2011 adaptation of Jane Eyre, and in 2014 won further critical acclaim for helming the first season of True Detective, a mystical southern noir, as critic Jeremy Egner describes it. When war came to his family's small village, Agus mother and sister are able to leave with the UN peacekeepers, but Agu is ordered to stay behind and fight with his father and the other men of the village. Idris Elba brings a terrifying charisma to the role of the Commandant, who tells his young charges: "I am your future!", but nothing is as distressing as the look on Agu's face as he learns to. This lighthearted opening sequence, empathetically shot by director Cary Joji Fukunaga, announces a different kind of African war filmone not interested solely in shock and nightmare but in an unrepentant enthrallment with reality. Barely any clothes to speak of. He offers the rubbish to a bemused soldier, and using the shell to frame themselves, the kids perform, in Wakaliwood fashion, soap operas, dance numbers, and raucous kung-fu fights. murderous campaign, testing his young soul beyond human limits. [4] On May 17, 2014, Participant Media, along with Mammoth Entertainment, came on board to co-finance the film, initially budgeted at $4.3 million but which ultimately cost about $6 million. with updates on movies, TV shows, Rotten Tomatoes podcast and more. The tight frame fills with Agus blank, hesitant visage, as he stands with a machete over a naked man who says he is an engineering student, and who pleads loudly for mercy. All rights reserved. Beasts of No Nation by Uzodinma Iweala, Apr 15, 2005, HARPER COLLINS PUBLISHERS edition, paperback. With this one Netflix proves that their originals are one of the best nowadays. No armor. Instead he tells of how he used to be a good boy from a family who loved him. In time, he comes under the care of a missionary shelter/hospital run by a preacher and a white woman, Amy. Beasts of No Nation Full Movie (2015) FREEWATCH FOR FREE! https://4k.movieasu.com/movie/tt1365050/OR DOWNLOAD! https://www.youtube.com/@MOVIEASUOFFIC. [16] Dan Romer scored the film. Rather than location, it is Agus interiority that lends specificity and authenticity to the feverish events. During this time of war Agu and the army have very little to eat, so they eat what they can: rats, small game, goats, and sometimes other people. Josh and his parents are shocked to find a singing crocodile in their attic but quickly learn to love him. "Beasts" does a solid job of showing how quickly a child's moral compass can be knocked off-axis, how men like The Commandant can bask in the adoration of immature or gullible followers and become despots within the dictatorships they serve, and how easy it is to teach a child to kill and rape when the reward (in addition to food, shelter and protection) is love, or a twisted facsimile. One of the other child soldiers drags the young girl with the woman and stomps the child to death. During that time, he also struggled to find backing for this deeply tragic and violent, child-focused project without a sympathetic white character. Watch 'Creed II' Cast: What if Your Life Had a Montage? Expand. The film is an international production, shot on location in the jungles of Ghana. Based on the book by Uzodinma Iweala, the story is told from young Agu's point of view as he narrates the horrifying events that shatter his life. Parents need to know that Beasts of No Nation is a brutal, uncompromising look at the life of a young guerilla fighter in an unnamed African country. [11], Red Crown Productions was the financier and producer, along with Primary Productions and Parliament of Owls. They march headlong into open fire, into the smoke of death. Agu, Strika, and the other young men, through killing, mourn their lost country, their departed way of life, and their deceased families. Your AMC Ticket Confirmation# can be found in your order confirmation email. Certain questions linger: Why are we being told this particular story, at this particular time, in this particular way? [10][14][15] The film was shot at locations in Koforidua and Ezile Bay at Akwidaa. The Commandant's lieutenant, Two I-C, will take control of the battalion, and the Commandant will be made Deputy Chief of Security under the leader. Our Future. and The Power Is in Your Hands., Fukunaga allows two truths to coexist: Agu can be a monster and a hero. The book had its roots in the author's creative writing thesis at Harvard. The writer never experienced the events he writes about in his novel unlike other books in the same genre.[6]. I felt as though the film explored more than it explained, which was a very odd thing to do in my opinion. Its notable that Agu seems to pine only for his mom. The boys adore The Commandant because they think he's teaching them to be men, specifically warrior-men, but he's really teaching them to be murderers, thieves, rapists and torturers who wrap their bloodlust and greed in ideology that seems half-understood when it's comprehensible at all. They won't be able to see your review if you only submit your rating. Fukunagas choice to preserve the subjectivity of Iwealas novel and do without the benefit of the doubt afforded by a supposedly objective camera opens up fascinating terrain. Not only is this a powerful story, but Idris Elba really makes you believe this clan exists and the way he forces his kids to do things is brutally realistic. In fact, out of 528 nominations in the Best Picture category, no film with an all-black. Haunted by his father's own death at the hands of militants, which he fled just before witnessing, Agu is vulnerable to the dangerous yet paternal nature of his new commander. Agu, played by Abraham Attah, is a young, mischievous but a happy go lucky boy, who makes the best out of every situation. Ammunition runs out, leaving the group with no way to defend themselves from encroaching enemy forces. Why, then, does it feel dubious in certain ways, and perhaps troubling for the wrong reasons? Which African conflict is 'Beasts of No Nation' based on. By opting to have your ticket verified for this movie, you are allowing us to check the email address associated with your Rotten Tomatoes account against an email address associated with a Fandango ticket purchase for the same movie. Amy invites him to share his thoughts and feelings, and Agu tells her he would like to be a doctor and save lives so as to redeem his sins. Many soldiers throughout history have essentially been criminals in uniforms; Americans in particular seem to hate admitting even the possibility that this could be true, but it is true, and it has always been true, and Agu's story is one more exploration of the phenomenon. Preacher and Randy decide to run away to rejoin the war. Members can watch as much as they want, anytime, anywhere, on any internet-connected screen. "You can feel the ground washing away beneath your feet," he tells us. The book does not give any direct clue as to which country it takes place in, and it remains undisclosed. It is with these sad
and the 2015 | Maturity Rating: 18+ | 2h 17m | Dramas. When civil war tears his family apart, a young West African boy is forced to join a unit of mercenary fighters and transform into a child soldier. Based on the acclaimed novel by Uzodinma Iweala, Beasts of No Nation unfolds in an unnamed, civil-war-torn West African country, where the young Agu (Abraham Attah, in a haunting debut performance) witnesses carnage in his . While the soldiers (except for Agu and Strika) spend the night with the brothel's women, one of the women shoots Two I-C. Two I-C accuses the Commandant of orchestrating the incident before dying, while the Commandant insists it must have been a botched attempt against himself. Drama, Original Language: With rebel forces headed towards the village, many people flee to the country's capital for safety. Down on his luck, Ariel longs for a different life. Starring as the child soldier at the center of Netflix 's first original feature film, Beasts of No Nation, first-time actor Abraham Attah has received critical acclaim for his performance. Watch A Guide to the Style of Cary Joji Fukunaga. [10] Later, Opeyemi Fagbohungbe also joined the cast. I am all of these things but I also having mother father brother and sister once. From the beginning I had high hopes for this movie and it lived up to my expectations. Commandant (Idris Elba). Oct 16, 2015 Nielsen Casting By Harrison Nesbit Production Design by Beasts of No Nation, A Netflix Original Film. Beasts of No Nation (2015) Full Cast & Crew See agents for this cast & crew on IMDbPro Directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga Writing Credits Cast (in credits order) verified as complete Produced by Music by Dan Romer Cinematography by Cary Joji Fukunaga Film Editing by Pete Beaudreau Mikkel E.G. the Terms and Policies, and to receive email from Rotten Tomatoes. Following a confrontation between a frustrated Preacher and paranoid Commandant, Agu and the soldiers all abandon the Commandant to surrender, ignoring his warnings that they will merely be thrown in jail and disowned by their families. In the end, this is a very solid film that can be hard to watch a times, but I would still highly recommend. and tone, disarming in its honesty. Agu: I saw terrible things and I did terrible things. Now on the run from their own faction as well as their enemies, the battalion suffers heavy losses. He thinks about how he and his friend used to play at war and how this war is not the same. He's an unholy combination of a battlefield commander, a drill sergeant, a football coach, a decadent older brother, and the patriarch that a lot of these boys either never had or recently lost to revolution (or revolutions, pluralwe get the sense that governments flip over all the time here). Donate . Scott. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use. When Preacher confronts the Commandant to say that he is leaving, the Commandant calls him Two I-C, who died earlier in the story. The vast majority of our reviews come from verified purchases. Commandant's second in command, Luftenant, is stabbed by a prostitute. Just below that it reads "Ticket Confirmation#:" followed by a 10-digit number. In a bloody initiation, the commander forces him to kill an unarmed man. "[12], The dialogue in the screenplay is faithful in form to the novel, originally written in a lighter form of Nigerian Pidgin English known as Krio. There is magnificent use of shadow and silhouette throughout, and small details (such as the red clay on Agu's feet as he kneels in supplication, and the rhyming shots of boys carrying other boys on their backs) that seem poignant or mysteriously pitiful, in the manner of great photojournalism. He fears that God hates him for killing others, but he soon forces himself to believe that this is what God wants, because he is soldier and this is what soldiers do in war. He befriends a mute boy named Strika, and together they face the crimes and hardships of war: looting, rape, killing, and starvation. The vast majority of our reviews come from verified purchases. Synopsis. Conniving partisans conscript the Belorussian Flyora (Alexei Kravchenko), only to abandon him, in Elem Klimovs Come and See (1985). Best friends Tully and Kate support each other through good times and bad with an unbreakable bond that carries them from their teens to their 40s. From beginning to end The Child goes through his stages as he is more exposed to violence. 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Without school, Agu and his friends restlessly busy themselves with activities such as parading around that television shell. And as he runs into the ocean with childlike abandon, he is rejoining the world, venturing back into the wide vista in the hope of forgiveness. . Amy Kaufman, He admits to being a devil, but says that his mother is loving him. The camera pulls back, revealing the shell of a television set. Is the message or point so urgent that it required a portrait of African men behaving like beasts for two hours? Netflix, National Board of Review Announces 2017 Award Winners, Indie Spirit Awards 2016: Spotlight Wins Big, RT25: Celebrating 25 years of Rotten Tomatoes. The prostitute professes that it was an accident, but the Commandant and his men shoot the women and leave the city with the battalion. "Beasts of No Nation" wasn't just a high-stakes, death-defying production for its cast and crew. Following a brutal initiation process where Agu hacks an innocent captive to death with a machete, Agu becomes a fully-fledged member of the militia. It follows a young boy who becomes a child soldier as his country experiences a horrific civil war. Strika dies, and Agu ultimately leaves his fellow soldiers. Not much, really, even though, as stated up top, the movie's visceral effectiveness is so overwhelming that to deny it would be dishonest. Cinemark He had studied Central and West African conflicts, and specifically the Sierra Leone Civil War, as an undergraduate at the University of California, Santa Cruz, in the 1990s. For the film, see, Audio recording: Uzodinma Iweala reading from, "Award: The Los Angeles Times Book Awards", "Idris Elba meets his Waterloo in Ghana", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Beasts_of_No_Nation&oldid=1105741169, Short description is different from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 21 August 2022, at 15:23. Then the country is turned upside-down by revolution. The Commandant eventually takes the battalion to the village of his birth where they visit a brothel. $83.9K, Runtime: Director Cary Joji Fukunaga Writers Cary Joji Fukunaga Uzodinma Iweala Stars Abraham Attah Emmanuel Affadzi Reviews from customers may include My Best Buy members, employees, and Tech Insider Network members (as tagged). When civil war tears his family apart, a young West African boy is forced to join a unit of mercenary fighters . [2], On June 5, 2014, principal photography was underway in the Eastern Region of Ghana. [13], On August 20, 2013, Idris Elba joined the cast of the film adaptation. Complete narratives do more than simply satisfy a laundry list of suggested story points--they provide . Hallucination and indoctrination, the surreal and the sublime, the melancholic and the suppressed are common themes of these rich texts, leveraged to precise, brutal effect. Grief is also strewn across Beasts of No Nation. Cocaine-fueled feral children rampage toward Monrovia during the Second Liberian Civil War in Jean-Stphane Sauvaires Johnny Mad Dog (2008). [23], The film was released on Blu-ray and DVD by The Criterion Collection on August 31, 2021.[24]. The film Beasts of No Nation follows the novel in not naming the country or conflict (hence the title); trying to decipher where the narrative takes place misses the point of the movies burnished patina and opening shotthat television shell. witnesses before escaping to the jungle. [21], On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a rating of 92% based on 146 reviews, with an average rating of 7.90/10. For much of America, if Africa exists anywhere, its on the news. If only their grumpy neighbor felt the same! A vast community of chimpanzees thrives in a forest in Uganda, navigating complex social politics, family dynamics and dangerous territory disputes. Airstrikes and supply shortages kill many of them, including Strika. The children acting in this movie are amazing, it is one of the best movies where a child grabs your attention. that counts young boys among its numbersled by the charismatic Go behind the scenes of Netflix TV shows and movies, see what's coming soon and watch bonus videos on. This Netflix released picture really shows that they know how to find quality content for their streaming service, because at one point this film was being considered for Oscar buzz. Privacy Policy The armys return to headquarters also lingers in my mind: the convoy of trucks overflowing with the young fighters, resolutely riding with guns up, could be a Roman legion arriving to a rose-petal parade la Gladiator. Tap "Sign me up" below to receive our weekly newsletter Follows Agu's journey as he's forced to join a group of soldiers. A young boy, Agu, lives in a small village with his parents, older brother, and younger sibling. During one of the raids Agu, under the influence of brown-brown, mistakes a village-woman during a raid for his mother. 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