2012 War Witch

2012 War Witch

At the last minute, I was able to see War Witch (nominated for Best Foreign Film) before the Oscars (thanks to my sis, Amanda!).

Talk about a sad movie.  Twelve year old Komona is forced by rebels to shoot her parents (if she doesn't agree to shoot them, they will brutally kill them with machetes instead).  She is then forced to become a rebel, and beaten when she doesn't do well.  The leader of the rebels decides that she is a witch when she is the only survivor of an attack by soldiers.


Komona eventually escapes with a boy named Magician, who declares his love for her, and tracks down a rare white rooster in order to prove his love.  The two are married, and are happy together until they are recaptured by the rebels.  Komona is told that she must shoot her husband, but this time she refuses, and so he is killed with a machete.  Komona is made to be the mistress of the man who captured her, and becomes pregnant.  She manages to kill the man and escape again.  She returns to her village to perform a proper burial of her parents so that their ghosts will stop haunting her, and there she delivers her baby boy at the age of 14, and names him Magician.

It's very violent and brutal, and terribly sad.  Not fun to watch.