Watched this last night. Powerful, disturbing stuff and a must-watch. Similar theme to Tears of the Sun but without the Hollywood essentials of big-hearted beautiful bimbo doctor and heroic US Special Forces saving the day.
What you get from Beasts probably depends on your outlook. For me it confirmed that Africa is a sh*thole and many Africans are pretty much still savages. For my wife, who is a nicer and more liberal person than me, the message was "Why is the West not doing more to help these people? After all the violence is a legacy of our colonial past..."
Yeah, right. Get Jeremy Corbyn in there and that woman from Kids Company. If these kids had been hugged and had a good music and poetry teacher they would never have hacked people to death. Makes sense to me.
