Wow. For all my reluctance to go see this, I was pretty blown away when I finally did. Strong performances, intense storyline. Intense sadness. Quite the companion piece to any of the boy soldier books out now (including this one I read, as well as there’s another all over the front of bookstores right now).

As for the Oscars: Djimon Hounsou was robbed!! Robbed, I tell you. He’s amazing in this movie.

(For the record, I think Leo was robbed also…but in a different way: because he SHOULD have been nominated for “The Departed” and he should have won for that. While he was good in this movie, he was great in that one.)