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Beasts of No Nation

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Beasts of No Nation (2015) A Review by Grant Kanigan Directed by: Cary Joji Fukunaga Written by: Cary Joji Fukunaga, based on                  Uzodinma Iweala's novel Starring: Abraham Attah, Idris Elba Rating: Not Rated Release Date: October 16th, 2015, (Netflix Exclusive) I dris Elba and Abraham Attah walk a dangerous road in  Beasts of No Nation Image Source      Ask any biologist worth their salt the question of where life comes from and you'll get an answer quite close to the National Geographic's Genographic Project: "You and I, in fact everyone all over the world, we’re literally African under the skin; brothers and sisters separated by a mere two thousand generations. Old-fashioned concepts of race are not only socially divisive, but scientifically wrong."    - Dr. Spencer Wells       Wells' statement is an important fact when watching a story with the heft and weight of Fukunaga's Beasts of No Nation . The s