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Nice work!
Here's what I wrote:
Monos
“Monos” is a bold and wildly unconventional South American war film that follows a group of teenage militants posted to a remote Colombian outpost in order to guard a kidnapped American doctor (Julianne Nicholson). Nestled above the clouds in the rugged Colombian Andes, the unit of 8 “mono” youths is left to their own devices when not intermittently visited by “The Messenger” (Wilson Salazar) for sessions of intense military training. Their remaining days are spent carousing and engaging in playful histrionics, even after being deliberately assigned a milk cow for the purpose of safe keeping. When a single tragic mistake is committed, however, a cascading series of transgressions finds the group splintered and increasingly adversarial—the full reality of warfare weighing upon each of them discordantly. With inspiration from William Golding’s “Lord of the Flies” and Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness”, and boosted by a unique and innovative soundtrack from Mica Levi, it’s a provocative and thrilling cinematic conception from Brazilian filmmaker Alejandro Landes.
No, she was recruiting them as young conscripts to the Islamic State, so Quinn took her out to stop her from recruiting anyone else. Seems it was too late for those 3 girls though. I don't think they were human bombs, just young naive girls who thought that joining ISIS would be some form of heavenly escape.
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