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you gotta be shitting me with this.  i got excited at the beginning with the rebel’s personal narration of the loss of her son and her resolve to fight.  yes!  africans owning their own voices!  no faceless, endless african misery in the middle of white/western action - african resistance! wrong.  by the end we spend […]

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so a lot has been made about how anti-commercial it was to make a movie about rats and with an unpronounceable title.  i think this put my expectations too high, so when this trod familiar ground i got too especially annoyed.  the conflict with his dad felt very perfunctory, then when it turned into a […]

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the first act pretty much blew me away.  i really liked the kind of loose structure and shots of colorful masses of people pushing and swirling around.  it really established the ‘humans are primitive’ theme well and was so smooth and enveloping it sucked me into the mindset.  it was hard as fuck without reveling […]

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i had to do some shopping in suburban sprawl hell so i thought this would be a nice counterbalance.  the final chapter and ending are very powerful and affecting but it was a bumpy ride along the way.  very watchable, but eye-roll inducing.  it follows the basic archetype of the idealized visionary finding truth while […]

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