Beasts of No Nation

[Adam]

A pretty new Netflix production written and directed by Cary Fukunaga (True Detective). Starring Idris Elba (The Wire), the movie follows the journey of a young boy, Agu, who is forced to join a group of soldiers in an unnamed 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.

I was motivated to create this thread because the movie has a FANTASTIC ambient soundtrack that made the movie and deserves recognition. It was composed by Dan Romer and has an early-M83 vibe to it. Check it out.