This is a story about what happened in Africa. Africa is simply a continent that is half neglected. "No Man's Land" tells the story of Africa. Regardless of the subject matter or the appearance, it is a work that is easily overlooked, but it is a masterpiece and it is worth taking a good look. recommend. In the movie, Hollywood star Idris Elba was in the line. He also won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor Nomination for this film, which gave "Beasts of Boundless" a lot of exposure. In the Oscar nomination for best actor, Idris Elba is also very likely to be one of the final nominations.
Let me talk about Africa first. In this barren land, there are mainly a large number of black-skinned people. Because of poverty, their voices are always different from the mainstream culture of the East and the West, and they are not well known. For example, now we all know that ISIS is a very cruel extremist organization. However, the reason why we know about ISIS is because they directly caused harm to mainstream Western society, such as the Paris incident and the Russian flight incident. With the spread of mainstream culture, the global community has learned about the terrorist status of ISIS. But we don’t know that the deadliest, most radical and brutal organization in the world is not ISIS, but an extremist organization called "Boko Haram", which is active in northeastern Nigeria in Africa. This terrorist organization can produce it every week. One or two massacres on the scale of a California gun case. For a long time, this organization has produced many large-scale attacks that dwarf the Paris terrorist attack, sometimes shooting hundreds of civilians at a time. The 2015 Global Terrorism Index released by the University of Maryland Institute for Economics and Peace shows that Boko Haram killed more deaths than any other radical organization last year. "Boko Haram" continues to launch anti-government rebellions in several northern states of Nigeria. The organization killed 6,664 people in 2014, while the "Islamic State" organization killed 6,073. The comparison of these two data shows that the brutality of Boko Haram is shocking, but more terrifying than ISIS. The report also stated that the number of people killed in Boko Haram in 2014 increased by more than 300% over the previous year. The attacks included multiple suicide bombings and the razing of dozens of villages and towns to the ground. Its members cut the school-age boy's throat and left it in the dust, allowing him to bleed to death. They also beheaded the victims, like the Islamic State, and documented the atrocities on video. Although Boko Haram has threatened the West several times, its main targets are actually poor Nigerian civilians, and they are not the focus of the media. Social media and mainstream media paid far more attention to the terrorist attacks in Paris on November 13 than Boko Haram’s massacre of Nigerian villages and towns (their names: Gamboru Ngala, Goza Gwoza, Bama, Bama, etc.) Dikawa). After Boko Haram attacked Goza in August last year, some people claimed to have witnessed headless men's bodies all over the town. We didn't know anything about the Blog Holy Land organization for a long time, but it itself was not idle. It officially announced its membership in ISIS at the beginning of this year, claiming to be the "West African Province" of the "Islamic State".
This is Africa. Earlier, 20 years ago, between April 7, 1994 and mid-June 1994, a genocidal massacre occurred in Rwanda, Africa. At that time, there was a civil war in Rwanda. The Hutu carried out an organized genocide against the Tutsi and Hutu moderates, resulting in a total of 800,000 to 1 million deaths. The death toll accounted for more than 1/5,000 of the world’s population at the time. The massacre was won by the Rwandan government, Support from the army, officials and a large number of local media.
These unbearable tragedies have occurred in modern society, but unfortunately we know very little. Africa is almost a forgotten alienation. The limited film and television works can only be glimpsed. Like "Rwanda Hotel", "Last Dictatorship" and "Tears of the Sun", they are all top-notch masterpieces. Now, there is another one, and that is "Beasts Without Borders".
The story of "Beasts Without Borders" is adapted from the novel of the same name and is a fictional work. It said that in a certain country in western Africa, there was a fierce military conflict between government forces and rebels. Both sides treated civilians with a genocide. And a young boy named Agu, originally lived a warm and happy family life with his parents and brothers. But because the area they were in was within the sphere of influence of the rebels, their entire village was slaughtered by the government forces. Under the protection of his father, Agu managed to escape the government's strafe and hid in the jungle. Wandering aimlessly around. Until he met a group of rebels headed by "Idris Elba", the rebels thought that Agu was a spy of the government army and wanted to kill him, but "Idris Elba" still After asking to understand the origin of Agu, he did not hesitate to take him in, and appointed other rebel fighters to train Agu specifically.
Thus, a tragic story happened. A child who was originally weak and introverted gradually turned into a murderous demon. Moreover, the story of the whole movie is unfolded from the first point of view of the little boy Agu, telling how he worked hard to live, how he evolved into another appearance step by step, and how he worked hard to find his mother, and finally his inner heart The process of growth and struggle. The film hardly carries the slightest pity, but confronts one tragedy after another from a calm and cruel perspective. Here, there is almost no good person in the world that the little boy Agu faces. The military leader "Idris Elba" is a treacherous and vicious guy. He uses rhetoric to brainwash his men without being polite. Killing civilians and competitors with their own interests. For him, whether it is a government army or a rebel army, it is a tool he uses to achieve his own rule. In order to maximize his own interests, he does not care about the life and death of others. Therefore, here, war has become an extremely absurd thing, there is no distinction between justice and injustice, and some are just personal gains. Unfortunately, Agu finally discovered the truth slowly while he was in the toilet, and finally broke free from the cage and ran to freedom.
The tail of the work is bright. Agu finally received modern education and the baptism of religion. Although it is difficult to return, he still took the first step.
The director of the film is Kerry Fuyong. There are not many works, but they are all well-known. One is "True Detective", and the other is "Mia Huasikowska and Michael Fassbender" starring together Jane Eyre, the current "Beast of Boundless", is even more impressive. It is also the first feature film produced by Netflix. It is not a major production and has not even been fully released in the United States, but the quality is not bad. The most important thing is torture the heart, which makes people unable to calm down for a long time after seeing it.
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