The Line-Up
- 2013
- 14m
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How far would you go to pay for your sister's life-saving operation?How far would you go to pay for your sister's life-saving operation?How far would you go to pay for your sister's life-saving operation?
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The film shows ontological anxieties of downtrodden people of Nigeria.
THE LINE UP: PERILS OF POVERTY BY PRADIP BISWAS, THE Indian EXPRESS NEWSPAPERS, India The new Nigerian film THE LINE-UP directed by Folasakin Iwajomo probably tries to take sad look into darker social aspects of war-torn Nigeria. Here the film shown at Fribourg this year seems to have drawn rapt attention in a sense it ontologically probes Nigerian nasty milieu. The film is of 15 minute duration but quite strong and funky. The director stirs up a moral query!!! How far would you go to pay for your sister's life-saving operation? The film narrates how ten men in a taxi, strangers to each other, head to an unusual line-up, where they must strip and subject themselves to blindfolds and inspection by a mysterious woman and her charge. This is too bizarre but an ontological reality. In the process only seven men romp home that night, big money in their pockets. We are left confused to count as to what of the other three? Funnily, the mysterious ritual is replayed again and again, and the attrition continues. For one man, it is suggested, the rumours of how much 'the chosen' spurs him on as he is desperate for the money to pay for his sister's operation?? But what is the price of being chosen? Not much is answered on the issue. Only tragic reality!!! Iwajomo's loud, disturbing film confronts the perils of the poverty-trap and the abuse of the desperate, in an allegory for the exploited rank file and lowdown people of Nigeria. African cinema through such experiments confirm how the directors are fighting to keep their heads up!!
- cinepradip
- Jun 24, 2014
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