African horrors

Rating: 7/10 (29 January 2007)

A fine movie about the problematic situation in Sierra Leone - a strong depiction of the creation of child soldiers and their brainwashing process which makes children hate their parents. The brutality of the civil war is explicitly depicted through the presence of the great actors especially the actor who plays the African fisherman bent on searching for his lost son.The end of the movie is inevitably moralistic notwithstanding that a lot of double-crossing and treason has been depicted during the duration of the film both among native Africans and white colonizers and soldiers of fortune.The triumph of morality in the ends comes after such a display of treason and duplicity that it does not have the required cathartic effect.