God Grew Tired of Us

I loved this movie and I hope you all watch it if you get the chance. I encountered this documentary months ago and recently saw it again when I showed it to my seniors (they LOVED it). It follows three young men who are among a group of boys known as the "Lost Boys" of Sudan. The name "Lost Boys" was given to the tens of thousands of orphaned boys who fled Sudan in the late 1980s at the beginning of that country's brutal civil war. The boys, aged 5-13, escaped their villages when the Arab north ordered that all non-Muslim boys, regardless of age, be killed in southern Sudan. They journeyed over 1000 miles without food, clothing, water, or shelter, to a refugee camp in Kenya, where they remained for 10 years. In 2001, the United States brought thousands of the Lost Boys to America.

With subject matter like that it would be hard not to make an interesting documentary, but it is the elegance and gracefulness of the young men that makes the movie beautiful. Watch it and you will know what I mean! Such hope and beauty and duty amidst such desperate sadness. It will humble you.

And anyone who doesn't fall in love with tall John Bul Dau...woah.

(I sent Brent a copy, although the loser hasn't watched it yet. But you can borrow it from Somers. Maureen, I think Andrew would love this!)