It's not time that makes the soul grow, it's pain

Jeromy 2022-03-25 09:01:09

Thanks to a certain gentleman, I have not missed this good film. According to my taste, this kind of theme + slow-paced film has always been skipped by me.
The movie was so hilarious at the beginning that I had to laugh every five minutes, especially at Imagine TV, where there are not only dances but also Chinese Kung Fu, hahaha, these kids are so cute, the most adorable thing is that they sell the TV to a Soldiers, soldiers kindly bought a few boxes of lunch. What a carefree life. In addition, the African people still sing and dance without saying a word. In those moments, I really felt that if I lived in Africa, it would be great to live such a happy life, dancing and singing. Then I got slapped in the face.
The style of painting suddenly changed and the war began. The little male protagonist first experienced separation from his mother, and then witnessed his father, grandfather and brother being mercilessly killed by soldiers during the escape. In an instant, he was the only one left in the world. When I saw him hiding in the depths of the forest and crying, I burst into tears. I didn't feel so sad, but the tears kept flowing. (Someone actually said that I didn’t know I was crying. Hey, how seriously are you watching the movie? I kept touching my eyes and you couldn’t see it.)
At the end, the male protagonist looked at the psychological counselor sitting opposite, listening He asked her innocuous and ridiculous questions, silently thinking that the other party didn't understand anything at all, that he had experienced the war, and psychologically he was already an old man. I was really persuaded by his acting skills when he said this line, and I really wondered if he had experienced the war firsthand. Also run to google it. The state of the little male protagonist's whole person, the numbness of the heart is indescribable to me, the eyes are very cold, and when I smoke, I really feel that I am not a child at all, but an adult in his thirties. After the war, the human soul has aged by several decades. This kind of growth cannot be given by time alone.

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Beasts of No Nation quotes

  • Commandant: I will always protect you because you are my son. And a son always protects his father.

  • Commandant: What this thing is doing here?