Is this all in Africa?

Jayme 2022-03-22 09:01:16

Two and a half stars. Waste the subject advantage. There are many loopholes in the performance of the choreographer's technical performance, the exhaustion cycle is too short, the suspense is low in the second half, and the sense of scraping is strong. In addition, the story from the white perspective (even though politically correct self-deprecating against double racism) presents a ticklish story, and it is still American middle-class family values ​​that underpin the work. The humanitarian pattern has been tragically made small and spread out. // ps History cannot be forgotten, but it cannot be interpreted by Hollywood.

Garret 2022-03-21 09:01:19

Under the prestigious name, it's actually difficult. With the gimmicks of historical films, it is too frivolous to simplify the complex history of conflict between the two nations into a binary opposition between justice and evil, warlord dictatorship, and personal freedom. Even setting aside the recurrence and respect for history itself, this should be at least an African film. But from the hotel manager and the family relationship, there is not the slightest breath of Rwandan life. This is a middle-class American family in Africa. Except for a black skin, the protagonist is all white, afraid that he is not a mangosteen. From this point of view, the film has a strong white perspective from the selection of actors to the selection of visual images, from conflict establishment to conflict resolution, from character modeling to spatial modeling, from script to lines. It has to be said that this has formed an interesting intertextuality with the black and white relationship in the film, and it is even more attractive than the film itself. Finally, Bai Zuo, the male lead wife, was too annoying.