Newton Aduaka: The story of Ezra, a child soldier

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Uploaded by on Nov 4, 2008

http://www.ted.com Filmmaker Newton Aduaka shows clips from his powerful, lyrical feature film "Ezra," about a child soldier in Sierra Leone.

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  • I love that!

    "When a man resorts to profanities it's a sure sign of his inability to express himself"

  • What the hell are you talking about?

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  • @lebasson YEA. hes got to get out of the shell. as a film maker he should be prepared to interact with people. but his work is brilliant other wise.

  • The latter surely was the only useful comment in there.

  • my university class actually got to interview Aduaka. the guy who played the child soldier was a real child soldier. the film is really thought prevoking. i like when the child soldier tells one of the members of the TRC "you were a soldier, if i am guilty of a crime you are" and when he says that he was fighting for his beliefs, and for freedom, that is no crime..........life has many dimensions and this film shows some.

  • Agreed. but this is a kind of person who would rather do than talk. :-)

  • wow... I can honestly say...thank you for that perspective.

    I'm pretty sure (of the hundreds I've read) this is my favorite comment response on youtube.

    Particularly because you said "maybe I just need to watch the entire film" at the end.

    You're awesome

  • It doesn't make it true. Someone with that low an opinion of profanities simply doesn't appreciate their versatility, nor their unique place in linguistics as far as their taboo status. Or maybe I just resent his holier-than-thou attitude because he feels some moral obligation to abstain from profanities himself, thereby judging anyone else who does use them. Maybe I just need to watch the entire film.

  • yep!

  • Que?

  • Too bad the guy was so damn nervous :) I'm sure he has a lot of valuable stories to tell.

  • Isn't this more about awareness than negativity/blame?

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