The movie "Beasts of No Country" tells a story that happened in West Africa. The protagonist, the little boy, Agu, is an African "good boy in a good family". His mother works hard and raises four children. His father is a teacher and his brother is a A fashionable youth who likes music and dancing. The family lives in the buffer zone of the war. Although the current situation is turbulent, the family is happy. The kids were selling them to the soldiers in the refugee area a TV they couldn't watch, they called it "Imagination TV", the TV screen was gone, the kids came out of the screen frame, laughing with big white teeth, they said it was 3D . The innocence of the children at this time is in stark contrast to the cruelty in the future, and the horror of war makes people think deeply. Under the nest, An has finished eggs. As Agu said "nothing is permanent and everything is changing." The short-lived peace was quickly broken. In order to protect Agu, his father and brother were killed in the war, and Agu narrowly escaped. Only out of the tiger's den, and into the wolf's den. Agu, who survived the disaster, accidentally joined a guerrilla group. The leader of the team is played by the famous black movie star Idris Elba, who is cunning and treacherous, calm and cruel. Make good use of language to brainwash your subordinates, and cultivate subordinates' absolute loyalty to him through constant lectures and orders. He made these children believe that they were righteous, and told the children to follow themselves to fight, not for useless sacrifices, but for the sake of gain, for justice, and to protect themselves. Use religious rituals to convince soldiers that they are invincible, so that they can better charge and act as cannon fodder on the battlefield. Of course, the most important thing is to submit a nomination certificate. Killing people not only can exercise courage, but also means that there is no turning back. It was such a hypocritical warmonger who finally found out that he was actually just a pawn in the hands of politicians. Until he ran out of ammunition and food, and all betrayed his relatives, he still did not change his nature and chose a path of obstinacy. He took advantage of the "simple ignorance", easy control and easy training of these children, and trained them into killing machines like dead men. Drug addiction, prostitution, murder, robbery, these sinful words have become the daily life of this group of children. Killing is as simple as eating and drinking for them, without thinking at all. There are three bloody killings in the film. In the first scene, the protagonist A Gu's village was swept up by the government army. A Gu, his father, brother and the villagers hid in a small grocery store, but was still discovered by the government army. Although the villagers have repeatedly stressed that they are not soldiers, they are still regarded as enemies. Machine guns swept past, and a row of kneeling villagers fell. Agu and his brother fled into the ditch, and watched helplessly as his brother was killed by the machine gun that was chasing after him.
In the second scene, Agu became a small soldier in the guerrilla unit. The unit was ambushed under a bridge. The leading soldier blew up oncoming vehicles with artillery shells and captured a prisoner. The prisoner said that he was just a college student from the engineering department and came to repair the bridge. But the commander of the NDF insisted that he was the enemy and asked Agu to treat him as his father's enemy. Agu finally slashed the captive's head.
In the third scene, guerrilla forces captured a village and caught a woman with a baby girl in a house. The older soldiers raped the women, while the younger ones kicked the baby girl. After witnessing everything, Ah Gu shot the woman in the head. Just like the title of the film "Beasts of No Nation", when the country falls into disorganized and irrational chaos, when the country no longer exists, the people are forced to become murderous and bloodthirsty beasts. On the whole, "Beasts of No Country" is not successful. There is nothing new in the subject matter and expression, and the visual impact is also lacking. Unfortunately, the second half of the story is a bit dragged and far-fetched. The negotiation and political struggle between warlords, the final position of the protagonist is shaken, and the international peacekeeping force is rushing to kill. These details are strong. Crossbow out a bright and harmonious tone. The film focuses on the struggles of small people in the background of the big era. Director Kerry Fukunaga's storytelling and character creation are wonderful, and the scene scheduling and mirror movement also continue the excellent level of "True Detective". But "Beast Without Borders" is still a sincere masterpiece with a slanted sword. Although there are anti-war people everywhere, war is always under the banner of "justice, freedom, holiness" and other brainwashing, and it has never stopped in the human world. In the hail of bullets, adults are not yet able to protect themselves, what about innocent children? Like the abyss! The young life has become a slaughtering machine, tired of beast-like killing and fleeing, and more and more confused under the barbaric brutality.
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