God Grew Tired Of Us
The Second Sudanese Civil War began in 1983 and ended in 2005. During that time two million of the Sudanese people living in the southern region of the country, were killed. “God Grew Tired Of Us” is a heartwrenching, funny, terrifying, humbling documentary about the Lost Boys of Sudan, a group of tens of thousands of young boys orphaned by the vicious Northern Militas, who fled on foot for 5 years into Kenya to escape the genocide. The Lost Boys of Sudan settled into a UN Refugee Camp in Kakuma, Kenya at a population of 86,000 refugees. The film follows three of those Lost Boys: Panther Bior, John Bul Dau and Daniel Abul Pach, as they seek a new life in America. This movie blew me away. One cannot imagine what these boys went through. For most, their entire families tortured, raped, murdered before their very eyes before they were ten years old. You can still see the fear and horror in their eyes of these experiences burned into their souls. But after being in the refugee camp for so long (ten years, twelve years), Daniel, John, and Panther decide to leave to America to start a new life, because the most important thing to them is informing advanced nations of what is going on in the Sudan, making money, sending it home, and helping all those others in refugee camps like Kakuma that God grew tired of. What an amazing fucking concept of how we should treat one another. That’s the one thing that stood out to me the most is how we treat each other, how we are so far removed from the kindness and compassion towards one another we share as human beings. These men make the most profound statements about the human condition that dropped my heart into my feet. Blew. Me. Away. One of the saddest, funniest, tragic movies I have ever seen in my life. Ever. And I watch a lot of movies.
(Note: normally I post a movie poster, small clip, or a screenshot before beginning these little “reviews”, but the image below of a reality so horrible speaks for itself. Imagine two million of what you are about to see and then only can you really begin to comprehend what these genocides do to human kind.)
