Some people want to be children, some want to grow up

Shakira 2021-12-17 08:01:08

In the end, Agu ran to the sea and played with his peers of the same age. This is what he has always wanted in his heart to do what a child should do.
It seems that from the moment he appeared in the camera, he vaguely felt that this child was a little special. It seemed that he was a little bit more intelligent and courageous than his peers, and he also had a calmness and calmness beyond his peers. Although it is a very childish act to dismantle his own TV and win a group of friends to sell Imaginary TV, his children's wisdom and brains are undoubtedly revealed.
If he was born in a peaceful environment, maybe, he will grow up very well, and he will be an outstanding person.
However, Cha Cha, his village soon suffered from the war, and his relatives went into exile and were shot dead by innocents. He escaped by chance and hid in the jungle in a panic. Scared like a child.
In the war years, it seems that hiding will never end, and it may never have confidence. You don’t know when it will end, in what way, you don’t know, avoiding the immediate danger, is there a gun aimed behind you? Lost myself.
Like a hunter's prey, Agu was dragged into a group. He was forced to learn to mature, learn to face bravely, learn the brutality of men, and learn to kill without reason. There is no enjoyment, no pleasure, only endless worries and fears. Killing is fear, and not killing is also fear. This process is too difficult for an innocent child!
Children can only learn to behave like smoking, taking drugs, shooting, and killing people. They don’t understand the meaning of it. They only know that this may be very prestigious, but after playing prestige, they still want to play with their own toys, but, The adults behind forced them to go to the battlefield.
There are several things that are not so easy for any child, even any adult, to do, or even not as good as Agu:
After encircling a convoy, a prisoner of war was captured. The commander encouraged A Gu to slash him with a knife. For someone who had seen war, it seemed that death was commonplace, but when he wielded his "butcher knife", it was so. Specifically, it requires courage and even the meaning of swinging a knife. A Gu, a child, swung down the knife in a short time.
They were mopping up in an attic, and found a pair of mother and daughter in the closet. Agu immediately hugged and called to his mother, but the "comrades" around him were still pulling the "prey" caught by accident. What should be done? Agu probably only wants to be a child holding his familiar but long-separated mother, or he prevents his "comrades" from stopping pulling and protecting his mother and sister, but the hunger and thirst are all stronger than him. "Beasts" ", will he stop him? The result may be that the mother wanted to protect her son and refused to admit it. At this time, there was a huge conflict in the boy's heart. The mother suffered pain and humiliation under the crotch of the beast, but she was powerless at the scene. What should I do? Finally, after asking God, he calmly fired a shot at his mother.
After being taken to his residence by the commander, Agu was sexually assaulted after completing an oral confidentiality agreement...
Many things in this series of processes, for a child, each one is enough for a young child. His heart is half-dead, but in a group of adult games, he is laughing and joking like an adult, fighting and fighting to survive. There is no safety or protection, only fast and strong, only to adapt to these survival rules, this is The only way to survive.
Perhaps it is these experiences that make a teenager who should only have fun and live in the present begin to think about the present self-awareness, and give birth to a wise teenager's inner desire. He will get tired of meaningless games-war, he He just wants to lie on the warm ground and do nothing, but he is like a boat floating in a raging river. If he wants to go upstream or dock to the shore, he may end up in a capsized way. As a child, instinctively Terrified!
Fortunately, in the end, the team surrendered to the UN peacekeeping force. The children have a safe environment where they can learn, read, play football, and have food. They don’t have to spend days in the wild, drinking blood and having no place to live. Facing a teacher with the qualities of a psychologist, Agu slowly confessed all his experiences, and then changed from a calm and dignified boy to a boy who started to pounce on the sea to a group of peers, and finally became a child. It's time to do it.
And this is a film and television drama, an abstraction higher than reality. This may not be the case in reality, at least not as fast or as obvious as the movie came.
During the consultation, I received a girl. When her parents divorced when she was young, she was rarely taken care of before her parents divorced. One day I could only see them when they were asleep, but then she would have fallen asleep. Until they were arguing, they kept arguing. After a few years of intermittent quarrels, I finally got divorced. For a child, this is a big thing. The safe sky collapsed suddenly, and he was so fragile and so insecure. The only thing he could do was curl up and cry alone. Cry enough for a person to learn to face this already completely different world, a world full of dangers, a world that can be lost at any time everywhere, in order to survive, we must learn to grow up and adapt to this adult world quickly.
But in the end, she couldn't help crying, when she realized that what she was doing in the real world was the behavior of a child who lacked safety and trust. Maybe the tears were because she felt the pain of growing up, maybe she was understood for a moment, maybe she finally got a new understanding of her confusion... Although she is now approaching adulthood, but her heart Still a child.
Finally, she said, I want to grow up slowly and tear down this wall by myself...

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  • Zackery 2022-03-28 09:01:04

    Three and a half. The monologue, photography, and music are all reminiscent of Malick, plus the brutal war background, much like an African version of "The Thin Red Line", but it doesn't feel like the final presentation is very good

  • Antonio 2022-04-22 07:01:31

    The bloody display of the worst side of human nature

Beasts of No Nation quotes

  • Commandant: -You wanna take that brige?

    Young Soldiers: -Yes sir!

    Commandant: -We're gonna take that fucking bridge?

    Young Soldiers: -Yes sir!

  • Preacher: Come and tell him how much we are suffering in here. Come! Everybody come.

    Commandant: So, you... You are the big man now, huh? Where will you be going? Huh? Will you surrender to the other NDF camp? No. they will eat you. And what of ECOMOD? Huh? That might be better, but what next? Jail? War crimes? Huh? You think you can just go and do what you want in peace? You will go back to your village and your family will not associate themselves with you. Huh? You will be nothing. You and your uneducated, poor mind, you'll be NOTHING. Nobody will care for you. Huh? Look at you. And you will wake up and you will rise and see the sun rise and see the sun set, and you can just wait all day ALL DAY with thousands of men just like you, waiting for somebody to give you a job. Huh? that's what you want to go and do? You are stupid! You have Nothing! No future! I am your future.

    Preacher: [Points gun to Commandant] You fucking die here, sir.

    Commandant: What?

    [Points Gun to Preacher]

    Commandant: How are you going to shoot me if you don't have bullets?

    [Agu points gun to Commandant]

    Commandant: And you, Agu? You wanna kill Commandant? Hey, Agu, I want you to kill Commandant. Come. Push it.

    Preacher: [Whispers] Do It.

    Commandant: Come, Agu, come. Put It here. Here! A-ha! Aha! Wanna Kill Commandant?

    Preacher: Do It, Agu. Do It

    Commandant: Kill Commandant! You wanna surrender? Huh? You wanna surrender? You wanna surrender?

    Agu: Yes.

    Commandant: Hey, Agu. Just get out. Just Remember, when you are all poor and hungry, you'll remember me! You'll remember your commandant. Just go! Just go!

    Preacher: Come on. Everybody, let's move!

    Commandant: And know that I will be calling for you one day. Go and drink gunpowder tea and playing draughts. No, no, no. You remember me. You remember your Commandant. You're gonna say, Yeah.

    [Points to Agu]

    Commandant: Remember, I will call for you again... and you'll come. Remember.