AGU in the African land and Sansang under the grass house

Kiana 2022-03-25 09:01:09

I just finished reading Cao Wenxuan's work "The Grass House" before watching "Beast Without Borders", and then watched the movie version in 1998. Two children of the same age, with a teaching father, mother and sister, living in a peaceful (or relatively peaceful) village...however, these are two very different stories.
When reading "The Grass House", along with Sang Sang's joys and sorrows, I recalled my childhood life. There were also small twists and turns, but it was full of happiness. Those happy, sad, angry or It's a shameful past, almost everything I've ever experienced. And in "Beasts Without Borders", AGU, the African boy who played tricks with his friends in the title, I can't imagine him going through all this, I really can't imagine it, but I know it's all It's true, there are really tens of millions of AGUs, sleeping in the African jungle with bullets in their arms, only in the night when everything is quiet, looking at a small piece of starry sky in the gap between the treetops, remembering that I once had my parents, There is a group of friends, and there is a home that can shelter from the wind and rain.
We are on the same earth, and we seem to be living in two worlds.

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  • Pink 2022-04-20 09:01:44

    Best anti-war movie I've seen in years

  • Ed 2022-04-21 09:02:20

    3.5 The cruelest thing in war is not killing, but turning innocent children into beasts. There is a problem with the overall rhythm, the foreshadowing is too long, and the ending is too hasty. There is not enough emotional exploration of the characters, and the audience's sense of substitution is not strong. The commander played by Elba is excellent.

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.