08-21-2021, 08:19 AM
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.
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.