Child-soldier film ‘Monos’ captivating and maddening

By: Michael O. Sullivan, Washington Post

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Thursday 26 September 2019 12 AM CDT

Violent, beautiful and powerfully watched movie "Monos"-Spanish for monkeys-filthy muddy gets its title from code names used by a group of teenage guerrillas who have been tasked with defending American hostages from the top of the Colombian mountains. . Actress Julianne Nicholson seems like she hasn't seen a hot shower for months, like the actors depicting the actor.

The male and female cadres of eight child soldiers, nicknamed Bigfoot, Rambo, Swede, Smurf, Dog, Wolf, Boom Boom, and Lady, are amazing in that they receive only regular training and scanned supervision from a small person on horseback. Wilson Salazar often arrives to provide supplies (including, for example, cow milk cows called Shakira) and to approve or disapprove sexual contact. The subtitles of the film call them "partnership", but the Spanish used by the characters in the parody of social consciousness is "Mart Limono".

Bigfoot, who is commanding commander of Commando, after one of the Bigfoot's companions, has transformed Shakira to death, is played by Moises Arias, who looks much scarier than Rico in Disney's "Hanna Montana". Monoz has a brutal spirit from the beginning, but as it is increasingly entrusted to his own device, the film became even more miserable when he had to move to a dense jungle where flies were fought with government forces. King of Paris "Energy. Shooting a pig's head on the stake, a novel based on the 1963 film and the 1954 novel appeared.

Like William Golding's "Paris", filmmaker Alejandro Landes implies a kind of allegorical message, with the attempt to escape, murder and a descent to more fighters. However, this message is not as obvious as the humid, foggy atmosphere that dangles much of the film. Children or society-idiots? Coldness? Is the law of unintended consequences the only one that appears in vivid and often bloody clarity? Or restraint may not be possible. Ironically named Rambo attempts to return to his ordinary life and when his comrades come to him, hope seems indeed a very foreign concept.

There's nothing particularly specific about the situation of the story. Monos fight on the side of the rebel organization called Organization, but it is unknown what they fight.

It's disappointing because there's an ambiguity to get rid of all the misery and apathy exhibited in "monos". That doesn't mean it's bad. It's both if it's triggered by fear that feels like a dark and tingling pain than a sharp perception of something.