Beasts of No Nation Page #2

It's your turn.

Dad's sending me away.

He's sending you because

you're a little baby.

Play the game.

Turn your light off.

Now turn it on and you'll feel better.

What kind of face is that?

Your face is like a monkey's butt.

Come on! Come on! Come on! Hurry up!

Hurry! I see one! Hurry!

Citizens of the republic,

living in the buffer zone.

Hurry!

The National Reformation Council

recommend non-combatants

to leave the buffer zone immediately...

This one's full. There's another here.

...as military operations

begin as planned.

Wait. Help me.

Is it heavy? Give it to me.

Agu, take it.

Please, move. Move!

Move back. Go back.

No space. No space.

Please, please, I am the Section Chief.

This is my family. There must be space.

No space.

This one woman

and this small-small children.

- And the little boy?

- Yes, him, too.

Where are you thinking

this woman and child would be fitted?

They're gonna be

sitting in the front with you.

No, no, no, no, no.

Seventy thousand, no boy.

With the boy.

You wanting your woman to

walk through the bush to the capital?

I'd rather walk. I can't leave my child.

You can't walk!

Please, how much to fit the boy?

Seventy thousand, no boy.

- Seventy thousand, no boy.

- Driver! Driver, driver!

Please, please, please.

Hey, hey. With the boy!

No boy. No bargaining.

I can't.

Get in!

I'll walk! I won't leave my child!

There's no other way! Get in!

Give her to her mother!

Give her to her mother!

Remember to pray to God everyday.

I'll see you very soon.

Always pray! Don't be afraid!

I will see you soon!

We'll find you, okay?

It's full! Everyone get back!

We'll find you!

Everything will be alright!

Take this!

You're with the men now, keep quiet.

Calm down.

Calm down.

Agu! Agu! Agu!

Let's go.

Let's go home.

And this is how it is starting.

Go take the clothes out of the rain.

Agu, close the windows.

God, when I'm closing my eyes,

I am seeing

the rainy season in my village.

You can be finding the ground

is washing away beneath your feet.

Nothing is ever for sure...

and everything is always changing.

Agu! Agu!

Hey.

Come on! Hurry!

Stay here. I'll call you when it's clear.

Hey! Hey, hey!

Come on!

Hey!

Hurry!

Hurry!

We need to go. If they catch us...

Keep quiet. They'll hear us.

If we run away now,

they won't see us.

Be patient. The soldiers are outside.

If you talk, they'll find us. Keep quiet.

Agu...

whatever happens...

it's God testing us.

We have to be strong.

We have to go.

Open it.

Don't do it!

Please.

Turn around! Turn around!

Give me a rope!

I will kill you today.

Quiet.

Y'all shut your mouth!

- Y'all shut your mouth!

- Shut your f***in' mouth!

Which faction do you fight for?

No faction.

- No faction.

- We are not fighters.

We are from this town.

We are protecting the stores.

You are Native Defense Forces, hmm?

- You are Native Defense Forces, hmm?

- No.

I am the Section Chief.

We are trying to stop the looters.

Bring the woman.

You are calling us looters.

- You are calling us looters.

- No. No. No, no, no.

You f***in' sh*t. Quiet!

No, no.

Do you know these men?

- Do you know these men?

- Master, master, master, please. Please.

This woman, everybody knows she's crazy.

I don't know them.

Master! Master, talk to her and you know

that she's not right in the head.

They are not from here.

They must be rebels.

We are not rebels.

We, the armed forces of

the National Reformation Council,

find you all to be spies.

- No!

- Please!

I sentence you to

immediate and summary execution.

Waste them.

Run!

Run!

Run!

Please, please, please.

Kill them all!

You! Hey!

Cease fire!

Wanna die, f***ing PLF?

- Wanna die, f***ing PLF?

- F***ing rebel.

Tie this f***ing spongebag up.

Hurry! Hurry!

I'm gonna kill you, man!

- I'm gonna kill you, man!

- This is not the right place.

Take position.

CO Hope, take your man.

I'm gonna kill you.

- I'm gonna kill you.

- F***ing PLF!

Strip those PLF soldiers!

Strip them.

Move, move!

Hey, you! Keep your eyes down.

Don't look at me.

Everybody move!

Here comes the Commandant.

You get out of the f***ing way!

What is this thing doing here?

Who is responsible

for bringing this thing?

Strika, is it you

that is bringing this thing?

Strika, untie him.

So all of you grown men,

it is Strika, the small boy,

that is finding this prisoner.

Where is Two-I-C?

Two-I-C!

- Two-I-C!

- Two-I-C!

Two-I-C!

Commandant, sir!

Two-I-C, what are we

to be doing with this thing?

This thing?

It is just a boy.

A boy?

A boy is nothing.

A boy is harmless?

Harmless, no, sir!

Does a boy have two eyes to see?

Two eyes, sir!

A boy has hands to strangle

and fingers to pull triggers.

Why you saying a boy is nothing? Huh?

A boy is very, very dangerous.

You understand me?

Very dangerous, you understand?

- Very dangerous, you understand?

- Yes, sir!

Huh?

- Huh?

- Yes, sir!

Strika, are you hungry?

Are you wanting to be eating this thing?

Let me see your hands.

Oh, you have hands like a baby.

What are you doing here?

You should be telling me.

If you are telling me,

I will be helping you.

You see, Strika is hungry.

He will eat you.

Huh?

What are you doing here?

The government army killed my father...

and my big brother...

and my father told me to run...

into the bush.

Everybody here is

calling me Commandant.

How does the Commandant look?

- How does the Commandant look?

- All right, sir!

How does the Commandant look?

- How does the Commandant look?

- All right, sir!

Ah.

Now, what are they calling you?

Agu.

Oh, you must say it

like you are prouder!

Agu.

One more time.

Agu.

- Agu.

- Uh-huh.

Well, Agu,

that is what I will be

calling you then, eh?

Leave this one under my charge.

I will be training him to be a warrior.

So you can be fighting

the army that is killing your father.

Is that what you want?

You must be saying yes!

Formation!

Say yes!

- Say yes!

- Yes.

"Yes, sir!"

- "Yes, sir!"

- Yes, sir!

"Yes, sir!"

- "Yes, sir!"

- Yes, sir!

"Yes, sir!"

- "Yes, sir!"

- Yes, sir!

- "Yes, sir!"

- Yes, sir!

One more time.

- One more time.

- Yes, sir!

One more time. Mmm-hmm.

- One more time. Mmm-hmm.

- Yes, sir!

Yes, sir!

- Again.

- Yes, sir!

Again.

- Again.

- Yes, sir!

- Again.

- Yes, sir!

Rambo, give this SBU some work.

You must carry this one.

I saved your life. I saved your life.

I saved your life. Go!

Straight line, straight line!

NDF!

- NDF!

- Yes, sir!

Move out.

- Move out.

- Soldier, move!

What are you waiting for?

Move! Quick, quick, quick.

Move it! Move it! Move it! Move it!

Move! Move! Move it!

Move out!

- Move out!

- Move out!

Move, move, move, move.

Move, move, move.

Move it!

- Yes, Commandant, sir!

- Yes, sir!

- Commandant, sir!

- Yes, sir!

- How our Commandant look?

- All right, sir!

- How our Commandant look?

- All right, sir.

How the Commandant look?

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