Beasts of No Nation

Commandant:
All of you that have never been listened to before and have seen your family killed, huh, you now have something that stands for you. You now have something that stands for you!

Agu:
[after receiving a bundle of clothes from Strika] You got this stuff from where? [Strika points] From dead bodies? [Strika nods] Everybody is calling you "Strika." Why? [Strika extends his right arm forcefully] Are you liking war? [Strika shakes his head] Hey, I'm asking you a question and you are not talking. Are you having family? [Strika shakes his head again] I am thinking about my mom... and brother... and my little sister.

Agu:
I just want to be happy in this life.

Agu:
Bullet is just eating everything, leaves, trees, ground, person. Eating them. Just making person to bleed everywhere. We are just like wild animals now, with no place to be going. Sun, why are you shining at this world? I am wanting to catch you in my hands, to squeeze you until you can not shine no more. That way, everything is always dark and nobody's ever having to see all the terrible things that are happening here.

Agu:
I saw terrible things... and I did terrible things. So if I'm talking to you, it will make me sad and it will make you too sad. In this life... I just want to be happy in this life. If I'm telling this to you... you will think that... I am some sort of beast... or devil. I am all of these things... but I also having mother... father... brother and sister once. They loved me.

Commandant:
I will always protect you because you are my son. And a son always protects his father.

Commandant:
What this thing is doing here?

Commandant:
-You wanna take that brige?

Young Soldiers:
-Yes sir!

Commandant:
-We're gonna take that f***ing bridge?

Young Soldiers:
-Yes sir!

Preacher:
Come and tell him how much we are suffering in here. Come! Everybody come.

Commandant:
So, you... You are the big man now, huh? Where will you be going? Huh? Will you surrender to the other NDF camp? No. they will eat you. And what of ECOMOD? Huh? That might be better, but what next? Jail? War crimes? Huh? You think you can just go and do what you want in peace? You will go back to your village and your family will not associate themselves with you. Huh? You will be nothing. You and your uneducated, poor mind, you'll be NOTHING. Nobody will care for you. Huh? Look at you. And you will wake up and you will rise and see the sun rise and see the sun set, and you can just wait all day ALL DAY with thousands of men just like you, waiting for somebody to give you a job. Huh? that's what you want to go and do? You are stupid! You have Nothing! No future! I am your future.

Preacher:
[Points gun to Commandant] You f***ing die here, sir.

Commandant:
What? [Points Gun to Preacher]

Commandant:
How are you going to shoot me if you don't have bullets? [Agu points gun to Commandant]

Commandant:
And you, Agu? You wanna kill Commandant? Hey, Agu, I want you to kill Commandant. Come. Push it.

Preacher:
[Whispers] Do It.

Commandant:
Come, Agu, come. Put It here. Here! A-ha! Aha! Wanna Kill Commandant?

Preacher:
Do It, Agu. Do It

Commandant:
Kill Commandant! You wanna surrender? Huh? You wanna surrender? You wanna surrender?

Agu:
Yes.

Commandant:
Hey, Agu. Just get out. Just Remember, when you are all poor and hungry, you'll remember me! You'll remember your commandant. Just go! Just go!

Preacher:
Come on. Everybody, let's move!

Commandant:
And know that I will be calling for you one day. Go and drink gunpowder tea and playing draughts. No, no, no. You remember me. You remember your Commandant. You're gonna say, Yeah. [Points to Agu] Remember, I will call for you again... and you'll come. Remember.