Carrie Crilow

English 1109 M-W 10:30

4 October 2016

 Journal 5

Beasts of No Nation is a film that can have a personal effect on anyone. It's a film that can change your mindset on life for the whole day, and even make you reevaluate yourself.

I would only recommend this movie to people that need to learn and open their views on the things that others live. Its a eye opening movie that some may not be able to handle.

I would consider Mind of matter a main theme for this film.  Agu and his “friends” and leaders really don't look beyond life outside of war and there actions put a giant toll on how they changed their mindset throughout the movie. Agu values his family a lot during the movie even when he is at his worse.

This film educates reality for how other cultures have to survive and live life outside of someone else's norm.  When I watched it, it definitely had a strong feeling on my life. It made me rethink the way I should treat others because you never know what battle someone has fought in there life. Agu had a huge effect on me, I value the way that he would go through hell and through all the losses in his live he would try his best to do what is best for himself, because if he didn't I don't think he would've ended up so lucky.

This was a important part in the film because Agu was being faced with a life or death situation. He could've made one wrong move and everything would've failed in his life right in this moment.