On Becoming a Guinea Fowl

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Mar 31 Damn, ow, fantastic but ooooowwwww. See more Mar 27 Compelling story about death and cultural rituals in an entirely different setting. See more Mar 11 The sexual assault plot is hard-hitting, but I also found the Zambia culture depicted in the movie to be very compelling. Glad A24 distributed this African movie in the US. See more Helen H @Gordon118 1h Loved this one, but mainly because this is my home country! Nice to see some young folks making a living out there. See more James M @LizardKing75 Dec 20 I would say that this is a decent film, not a great film, but decent. It is nice to see cinema coming out of the African (sub-saharan) continent to give us a glimpse of the world through African eyes. Not just your typical conflict diamonds, poverty, misery, famine and war in Africa movies, but a more genuine take on the situation from people who actually grew up in the region and live there. I sympathize a lot with the alienation that the main character feels from her traditional culture. I share that same sense of alienation in that I have always felt disconnected from my own native culture, sort of a stranger in a strange land phenomena. "Traditional" cultures just seem so strange to me. Even when I grew up in one. I also liked the power & money dynamic between the different families during the "trial". It is a very topical narrative in that it shows the rich screwing over the poor yet again. 3.5/5 See more Kai L @psocid Nov 24 This movie accomplished everything it set out to do in an intelligent if subtle way, one small bit of literalism aside. It's stylistic choices, presentation and ending reminded me much of any film by Sean Baker, who has also been known to fall into the literalism trap that mush-minded movie watchers have required of today's movie makers. It's laden with integrated metaphors that don't draw the story or characters even slightly off course to obtain as they are well rooted in place, but it takes a keen eye to spot them all, indicating at times the level of love, thought, and consideration that went into the making of this film. The film is slow, meant for people who haven't rotted their attention spans on social media, and mislabeled as a comedy, but it is powerful, potent, and potentially even important. Complainers citing the lack of trigger warning should realize that films tell you exactly what they're rated for, if only you choose to look. See more Read all reviews

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