Because of a school trip, I had the opportunity to watch the movie "Rafiki": a dramatic Kenyan movie directed by Wanari Kahiu. The plot takes place in Nairobi, where Kena, a brillant highschooler, fell in love with Ziki, a young woman with a flashy style. However, their love is forbidden, because they're both girls, and being homosexual in Nigeria is prohibited. Furthermore their parents are political opponents, that's make their relationship even more impossible. And that's what makes this movie so basic.
If I had one dollar for every time I saw this "forbidden love gimmick" I would be a freaking billionaire!!
For sure, the "Romeo and Juliette" cliché script is horrible. There are so many problems in the writing. The characters are poorly written, they're are too 2 dimensional, we can't explore a lot of their personalities or perspectives. And a movie with flat character isn't a good movie.
In term of cinematography, it's not that amazing. The mise-en-scène is very basic, the overlapped audio's cuts are not fully mastered and made the understanding of what was happening in the screen very hard.
At least the soundtrack was good and the topic of homosexuality was well aborded. But I still think this movie was garbage and a big waste of time.
I can understand how we can put more than 5 stars.
If I had one dollar for every time I saw this "forbidden love gimmick" I would be a freaking billionaire!!
For sure, the "Romeo and Juliette" cliché script is horrible. There are so many problems in the writing. The characters are poorly written, they're are too 2 dimensional, we can't explore a lot of their personalities or perspectives. And a movie with flat character isn't a good movie.
In term of cinematography, it's not that amazing. The mise-en-scène is very basic, the overlapped audio's cuts are not fully mastered and made the understanding of what was happening in the screen very hard.
At least the soundtrack was good and the topic of homosexuality was well aborded. But I still think this movie was garbage and a big waste of time.
I can understand how we can put more than 5 stars.