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BEASTS OF NO NATION<\/strong>
\nNetflix<\/strong>
\nReviewed by: Harvey Karten for Shockya. Databased on Rotten Tomatoes.<\/strong>
\nGrade: B+<\/strong>
\nDirector:\u00a0 Cary Joji Fukunaga<\/strong>
\nWritten by:\u00a0 Cary Joji Fujunaga based on the novel by Uzodinma Iweala \u201cBeasts of No Nation\u201d<\/strong>
\nCast: Abraham Attah, Idris Elba, Ama K. Abebrese, Opeyemi Fagbohungbe, Grace Nortey, David Dontoh<\/strong>
\nScreened at: Park Ave., NYC, 10\/19\/15<\/strong>
\nOpens:\u00a0 October 16, 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n

The key argument made, one that led to America\u2019s adoption of the 26th Amendment forbidding states to deny the right to vote to citizens 18 years of age and older, came out of the Vietnam War protests.\u00a0 The point was: if you\u2019re old enough to fight and perhaps die for your country, you\u2019re old enough to vote. This sounds sentimental and patriotic but does not stand up to cold logic.\u00a0 During the Civil War, ten-year-olds were found in battle.\u00a0 Johnny Clem, as much a hero to his age group as Ulysses S. Grant was to the Union army, was ten years old when he joined the Michigan Regiment and shot dead a Southern Colonel.\u00a0 Johnny Clem was old enough to fight and die, but did that make him old enough to vote?\u00a0 What about the child soldiers in a number of recent and current wars in Africa?\u00a0 In the \u201cDemocratic\u201d Republic of the Congo, for example, thirteen-year-olds were recruited forcefully as rebels to fight against that country\u2019s army.\u00a0 Should they vote?\u00a0 Hardly.<\/p>\n

But boy can they fight.\u00a0 In \u201cBeasts of No Nation, director, producer and writer Joji Fukunana (whose \u201cSin Nombre\u201d deals with Central Americans who hunger for better lives)\u2014filming in Eastern Ghana where a lack of structure in the country led to actors disappearing and crew members demanding more pay\u2014takes us on a brutal journey seen from a 13-year-old\u2019s point of view.\u00a0 If you\u2019re looking for clarity as to why at least two rebel forces are fighting against the government while avoiding capture by Nigerians under the U.N. flag, you won\u2019t get much.\u00a0 All we know is that a rebel leader known as Commandant (Idris Elba, the only \u201cname\u201d actor in the show) motivates his forces by claiming that the government was stealing their land.\u00a0 Like rebels romanticized in the Che Guevara mode, these ragtag units hide out in the mountains and forests of an unnamed African nation (filmed in Koforidua and Ezile Bay at Akwidaa, in coastal Ghana). When they come upon villages occupied by the regular army they fire wildly into the crowds, throwing grenades, and trying to stay alive while threatened with automatic rifle fire and bazookas.<\/p>\n

All is seen through the eyes of Agu (Abraham Attah), the movie\u2019s star, whose parents are killed by unknown forces and who is recruited by Commandant with the lie that the government was responsible to his parents\u2019 death.\u00a0 Having run away from his happy life horsing around with his friends, selling junk like a TV set without a screen (the kids perform in front of the blank screen area as though to prove that the TV was working), he is caught by Commandant and his forces and trained to be a fighter.\u00a0 His initiation consists of killing a man tied up and on his knees by using a machete, inflicting two deep gashes on his head, then hacking away on the body with other underage fighters.\u00a0 This is just one sample of the violence that might turn away some potential audience members, though a sexual encounter between Commandant and an unwilling thirteen-year-old boy is merely hinted at as though violence is OK but pederasty is out-of-bounds.<\/p>\n

Having played at festival premieres in Venice, Telluride and Toronto, \u201cBeasts of No Nation\u201d at the cost of just six million dollars is able to outfit scores of soldiers and rebels, the director\u2019s taking full advantage of the acting skills of London-born Idris Elba. (Elba\u2019s father is from Sierra Leone and mother from Ghana.) As Commandant, Elba adopts a wide range of performance skills including comic touches, and is best seen as a charismatic leader whose regular motivating speeches keeps his rebels intact\u2014until they run out of food and money.\u00a0 Young Abraham Attah, who appears this year in Jonathan Stein\u2019s \u201cOut of the Village\u201d (about a brother and sister caught in the West African Ebola epidemic), already shows great talent whether smiling and laughing in the early scenes and acting a confused and ultimately centered adult role as a rebel fighter.\u00a0 He is particularly adept when bonding with the mute Strika (Emmanuel Nii Adom Quaye), another kid favorite of Commandant.<\/p>\n

Ghanese citizens might be insulted that the film implies that their country is involved in a civil war, but the paradox is that Ghana, being a peaceful, stable nation, is counted on to provide calm and stability during the filming of this important, if overlong, film.<\/p>\n

Unrated.\u00a0 136 minutes.\u00a0 \u00a9 Harvey Karten, Member, New York Film Critics Online<\/strong><\/p>\n

Story \u2013 B+<\/strong>
\nActing \u2013 A-<\/strong>
\nTechnical \u2013 B+<\/strong>
\nOverall \u2013 B+<\/strong><\/p>\n

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