October is the month when people return to watch zombies in the Walking Dead or scary movies of various different genres and sub-genres, but nothing is scarier than truth and that is why Beasts of No Nation is one of the harshest, emotionally draining movies you can watch this horror season.
Written for screen and directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga (True Detective, Season One) gives us a tale of a African child Agu (Abraham Attah), who in the story that eats you for 2 hours and 10 minutes provides an multi-faced perspective of transformation from an innocent youth to a guerrilla rebel fighting against the corrupt t under his Commandant (Idris Elba), who seeks revolution for his people, but the story doesn’t stop there. The movie gives explicit hints what happens behind the scenes of any war between Warlords as outside business men with suitcases come changing politics and agendas of war, but the fight must persist because there must be some cause for the war orphans to pillage, rape and slaughter in the name of revolution.
The movie might be fictional, but the story it tells is all very real in today’s world. We live in a world where little children have to rise up and fight against their own brothers on the sole purpose of lands being sold, gold mining and oil is drilled all for the sake of capitalism.
Children are born to die in a war. That is what you call horror.
Beasts of No Nation is available now on Netflix & is based off the novel by the same name by
Uzodinma Iweala.
