Wrong Elements

Documentary, directed by : Jonathan Littell, writing credits : Jonathan Littell, cast : Geofrey, Nighty, Mike, Lipiso, Dominic Ogwen, Joseph Kony, produced by : Tassilio Archauer, Jean - Marc Giri, Thomas Kufus, Philippe Logie, Benoit Roland, Guillaume Shuermans, cinematography by : Johann Feindt, Joachim Philippe, film editing by : Marie - Hélène Dozo, production management : Juliette Lambourg, Boris meng, sound : Yves Coméliau, Yolande Decarsin, Ansgers French, Ludovic Pochtesbeke, visual effects : Tobias Staerk, camera : Yakov Mirnicleo, editorial department : Pier Paolo Filomena, Tristan Meunier, 2h 13mn (2016).

After the success of his novel "les bienveillantes" the French writer Jonathan Littell directs a documentary about the children soldiers in Uganda. In this movie like in his books Littell goes near the violence for telling what he sees like Malraux, Hemingway, Kessel and Dos Passos have done before. Littell analyses but also improves interest for the people he meets influenced by his experience as humanitarian. Littell films six people (four young adults and two adults) whose the story follow the bloody way of the LRA (Lord Resistance Army) without trying to direct them.

Child soldier

The LRA leader Joseph Kony appears towards archive pictures because the Uganda army tries to arrest him and his last soldiers. In 1989 he affirms being visited by the spirits and he builds an army constituted by children kidnapped and indoctrinated. His army will commit many mass murders. Littell films also another LRA leader Dominic Ogwen who has surrendered himself to the Uganda army with the hope to be forgiven. But the Uganda authorities have bring him to the International Court of Justice because they don't have forgotten that this peaceful man has personality leaded mass murders.

Children soldiers

Littell stays more longer on the story of four young adults. The first Geofrey is cleaver and ready to make is own introspection. The second named Mike is joyful but he understands progressively what he has done. Two young women Nighty and LIpisa are also broken by their stolen childhood. Rejected by the Ugandan society they try to rebuild themselves. Littell brings them where the LRA has committed mass murders. He shows them pictures of LRA killings and pictures of the Ogwen catching. Littell tries to make us understand how young adults have committed such murders but also help them to rebuild themselves

Child soldier

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Wrong Elements (2016)

Directed by Jonathan Littell. With Geofrey, Nighty, Mike, Lapisa Evelyn. Uganda, 1989. A young rebel who claims to be visited by spirits, Joseph Kony, forms a movement against the central power: the

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4466384/