Beasts Of No Nation Film Analysis

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is estimated to affect about eight million Americans any given year (“National Center for PTSD”). This number is often inflated when the individual is especially engaged in events that increases their chances of encountering life-threatening experiences such as the military combat. The U.S Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) reported that an estimated 30 out of every 100 Vietnam veterans has had PTSD in their lifetime (“National Center for PTSD”). Other forms of these life -threatening exposures include sexual abuse, natural disasters, prisoner of war, car accidents and life-threatening illnesses. As a result of increase in prevalence of the disorder, the United States Senate just designated June 27th last year as an awareness day to educate families, healthcare workers, and communities. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, defines post-traumatic stress disorder as “a history of exposure to a traumatic event that meets specific stipulations and symptoms from each of four symptom clusters: intrusion, avoidance, negative alterations in cognitions and mood, and alterations in arousal and reactivity” (DSM-5, 2013). For this paper, the movie Beasts of No Nation will be

This was the groups’ way of initiating and testing his fealty. This murder has a profound effect on Agu’s personality is seen later reminiscing later on how he has become a bad person and is heard saying this is the worst sin (Fukunaga & Iweala, 2015). This was consistent with the signs and symptoms of PTSD in children, which included negative change in cognition, mood and impairment in normal function (Pinto & Schub, 2014). Agu also depicts a classical clinical presentation of feelings of shame also known survivor’s guilt after committing his first murder (Pinto & Schub,