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Beasts of No Nation (2015) is an American-Ghanaian war drama movie written, co-produced and directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga, about a young boy who becomes a child soldier as his country goes through a horrific war. Shot in Ghana and starring Idris Elba, Abraham Attah, Ama K. Abebrese, Grace Nortey, David Dontoh, and Opeyemi Fagbohungbe,.[1]

Beasts of No Nation poster


Plot

Follows the journey of a young boy, Agu, who is forced to join a group of soldiers in a fictional West African country. While Agu 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 Depicts the mechanics of war and does not shy away from explicit, visceral detail, and paints a complex, difficult picture of Agu as a child soldier.[2]

Controversy

Beasts of No Nation, shows more damage to the African image by leading audiences to believe that Africa is solely a primitive and war-torn place, thereby continuing the negative stereotypes of the continent. There is a scene where the NDF and tribal elders yell at, beat, and even kill some of the initiates while they prepare to be part of the NDF. Again, this calls back to the violent and primitive stereotype that is placed on Africa. While it was an engaging scene to watch, it does nothing to represent how Africa is but rather shows the exotic Africa that viewers expect to see. Due to this, the message of the film, the brutality of civil conflicts, is overshadowed by racist stereotypes of the continent.[3]

Once viewer going deep on the movies, they will keep noticing more and more things about "Beasts" that feel somehow untrustworthy, or at least not immediately defensible. And it's a short hop from there to the realization that this is the second recent, highly acclaimed film about dark-skinned people not directed by an African or an African-American that has the word "Beasts" in the title. [4]

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