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Monos (2019) [Colombian] by Alejandro Landes - cranefly - 08-21-2021
Actually this is a multinational production (Colombia, Argentina, Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, Uruguay, United States, Switzerland, Denmark, France). I'll admit I was very disappointed to see that Norwegia was not represented.
It opens with a game of blindfold soccer on a mountaintop. This is just one of many training techniques employed to condition a small squad of teenage guerilla soldiers. The drill sargeant is a dwarf built like Schwarzenegger. Before you scoff at this unbelievable element, the dwarf was a former guerilla soldier currently in a reintregration program that the director recruited as a consultant but then elevated to actor.
The squad has a white woman as hostage. They've been instructed to kill her if there's any rescue attempt. But that's just a small part of the story.
The squad has the code name Monos. Monos is Spanish for monkey. But the title really leans towards the Greek "mono-" meaning of "alone" or "one." There's some Heart of Darkness and Lord of the Flies influences in this, but it stands on its own as a hard-to-define anti-war tale.
The movie is scored by Mica Levi, who did the score for Under the Skin. Haunting and ominous, it works very well.
Seen on Kanopy. Recommended.