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Beasts of No Nation
Drama, War
Based on the experiences of Agu, a child fighting in the civil war of a West African country. Follows Agu's journey as he's forced to join a group of soldiers. While he fears his commander and many of the men around him, his fledgling childhood has been brutally shattered by the war raging through his country, and he is at first torn between conflicting revulsion and fascination.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers prepared for an unflinching, intimate portrait of child soldiers that prioritizes psychological devastation over conventional war-movie heroics.
- Tone
- bleak, dread, melancholic
- Payoff
- heartbreak, reflection
- Pacing
- slow-burn
- Intensity
- harrowing
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- war atrocity, childhood trauma, loss of innocence, coercion, moral injury
- Setting
- contemporary civil war, war-torn tropical villages and jungle
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Where to watch
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Netflix
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