How does this film make you feel?

Rating: Null/10 (24 April 2016)

Can we fix what is happening to our people? "Bullet is just eating everything, leaves, trees, ground, person. Eating them. Just making person to bleed everywhere." - Agu (Beasts of No Nation) When not finishing your food and throwing the rest away, there is always that one person who says "there are kids in Africa who are hungry" always trying to make you feel like crap for not finishing your meal. Yes you're full, but now you want to grab the thrown away left over that was on your plate and just eat it just because of what that one person said. Society will always look at Africa being such a huge poverty driven country, and unfortunately, a lot of us know that it won't change unless a miracle happens. Mothers are being raped and killed just for being innocent in their living. Children are being turned into soldiers and put against their own will just for the sake of living, but it's honestly not life as what they are going through. But we could be forgetting the fact that not only is this happening in Africa, but other countries in the world we live in. Africa is an easy target to try and figure out their problems but what about places like China or the Middle East. This isn't nothing new. We say that Africa just goes through starvation and nothing, that's the only thing we ever look at, there is so much more. Like in the film "Beast of No Nation" everything changes, everyone's point of view on how life really is instead on how others put it, changes. Simple as that. Yes, hunger is big issue that could potentially be resolved and yes it is a difficult task on resolving this issue but there is so much more that citizens in Africa are going through and it's an understanding that we all need I read this quote, "People in Africa are not poor, they are robbed". We realize and have been realizing this since birth that society can help to uplift a country in poverty and there are people out there that can make a change and not just in Africa, but many different other country. What we don't really see is the process of them getting robbed, that maybe one day the people out there started out good, maybe not great, but there living was comfortable until there government takes it away along with family members too. Money and food and stability are such huge deals that citizens in Africa would do absolutely anything and everything to help their families out. I don't blame them, in fact a lot of people don't blame them, but a lot of us who were born in a comfortable environment here in the states, have a great tendency to take things for granted on an everyday basis which to me is a normal thing, not necessarily good, but everyone does it. Some are worse than others but we still do it. More than seventy percent of the citizens living in the continent of Africa are living in poverty and good majority of that percentage is because of the government taking away almost all of what they have had.
The film "Beasts of No Nation" touches this subject so well. A young boy (Agu), very family oriented tries to live to a happy life with family and rapping for fun with friends during the African war. His story only made me imagine of how really the kids in Africa are living during a difficult war era. A boy so harmless and skinny has no choice but to listen to an unknown commander who found him in the middle of the woods after having to see his family killed from the government. The commander brainwashes him into something that's not true. Yes, Agu survived but his survival was nothing compared to the person he later turned out to be. It's hard because children, just like Agu , are currently going this same situation if not worse and that hard to understand. He had no choice to run in hopes to live and survive. The commander turned him into something he's definitely not, as Agu was newly exposed to killings and the smell of death; he became very used to his new life. The film was based on a story in 2005 but yet the same situation is happening now if not a lot worse than this film has portrayed it. We hear and see celebrity saying or announcing how many charities they will open up for the hungry in places like Africa, but when we see homeless wanting some money for food out in our cities, we look away as if we didn't see anything. It's very understandable to help a third world country out, but I honestly like more of the help the better, and not just might building school and sending aid there way, but by trying to do something about the government of their countries and give them what they need just so they could leave the citizens at peace, but I feel like even that won't work for them.