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War Witch (2013)

March. 01,2013
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NR
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Somewhere in Sub-Saharan Africa, Komona a 14-year-old girl tells her unborn child growing inside her the story of her life since she has been at war. Everything started when she was abducted by the rebel army at the age of 12.

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Acensbart
2013/03/01

Excellent but underrated film

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Micransix
2013/03/02

Crappy film

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Plustown
2013/03/03

A lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.

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Erica Derrick
2013/03/04

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

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drhupp
2013/03/05

This movie was very extraordinary and it is one of the first movies I've ever seen with a female child soldier. The way this movie begins is quite gory, where the girl is captured but she is forced to shoot her parents, something I could never imagine having to do. Then having to live with the people who just killed your entire village, very unimaginable. The idea of Witchcraft in this movie seems a little far fetched to me, I don't believe in magic so I'm not sure why the rebels think that they can win the war if they have to Witch. I really liked how the movie showed the progression of the main character by showing us two years of her life. She faced great amounts of adversity, the main thing that showed this was when she killed the rebel general by doing a not so okay thing to him. The way this movie ends is not the most awful or best ways I've ever seen, she ends up having a baby that does not belong to her Albino husband. She also gets on a bus headed to the butcher's house, so it seems as if things may start working out for her.

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Pablo
2013/03/06

Rebelle was a very interesting movie in my opinion. I knew a lot of African countries were struggling economically and in terms of civil unrest etc., but I never really thought of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Mainly after the events in Libya and especially what is going on in the Middle East right now, I didn't really pay any attention to how any other country was doing. After this film however, I now see how many countries are currently going through tough times all at the same time also! It's crazy to think how blind we can become to other problems in the world that don't directly affect us in any way. I thought this film had a lot of similar characteristics to other films we've watched. There is this reoccurring style of long periods of silence that we have gotten in many movies along with very little dialogue. This movie has little internal dialogue and most of the speaking is in the form of the main character telling a story of her life. I find this type of movie to be pretty interesting because its so different to what we are normally exposed to in movie theaters here in St. Pete or elsewhere. I didn't really like how there were quite a bit of unexplained things. For example, where specifically she lived, what the governmental situation was at the time, the towns they would go to while looking for the white rooster, etc. Another thing I found interesting was that when they showed the ghosts every so often, it wasn't CGI effects, it was real people that were painted white. I thought this was a clever use of resources.

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logatherum
2013/03/07

during it. I liked the different personalities of each character and how they contrasted from each other, but during the beginning I was a little confused as to what was going on. At first, I was confused because I thought that the movie somehow went forward in time right before Komona got married. I could not believe that not only was she 13/14 years old and willingly getting married, but also fighting in war and killing her family! However, the subtitles helped when it would say her age, because then I realized that it did not go forwards, and that this was just a really really different way of life and culture! My favorite character was Komona because she was so strong. I felt so bad for her because if I was forced to kill my own parents, I would probably kill myself since I would not be able to go on knowing I did that, even if I WAS forced. Not only did she have to kill her family at a very young age, she had to go on with life- and she sure did. I felt really bad for her because she suffered so much loss, and I wish this film showed a little more of her emotional side and a little less war. On every thing about this film that I found super intriguing and cool was all the albinos! I did not expect to see the scene where dozens of them were all together, like a little village. I found it kind of ironic how Magicien was searching for a super rare white rooster, and he was kind of like the super rare white rooster since he was albino.

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Michelle
2013/03/08

When we think of African countries, many Westerners think of countries in the midst of bloody civil wars involving child soldiers, senseless violence, AIDs, etc. Our impression of African countries is one that we've learned from movies like Blood Diamond and from images presented by charities and documentaries with major press coverage like Invisible Children and the Kony 2012 campaign. The unintended consequence of these shocking images, presented for the heartfelt purpose of raising awareness, is this: the single story. We have a few images serving as one generic story representing an entire continent of countries and cultures.The complexities, variations, and even just the common middle-class, everyday lives that exist in African countries are reduced to this single story: of starving, war-torn people waiting for the rest of the world to save them by donating a few dollars, or by buying a "buy one give one" pair of Toms shoes.War Witch embodies the single story that many Westerners think of the "country of Africa" because we simply meld all African countries together into one homogeneous war-torn state. In fact, War Witch doesn't even differentiate which country or war the story represents. The setting is simply "Africa." The Beauty of War Witch As I watched the first few scenes of the film, the tragedy of the child soldier story quickly become apparent as the movie's story. I was initially disappointed as it is a story with which I'm already familiar. Luckily, the beauty of this film's simplicity also became apparent. Without much dialogue, we as an audience were able to suspend our disbelief and appreciate the supernatural aspects of the story as a child's attempt to cope with the tragedies she faces. We watch as she deals with death, separation, and heartbreak while she is haunted by ghosts of her parents. The ghosts aren't cheesy nor are they scary, they are simply haunting reminders that the soul of the main character is not at rest.While the child conveys strength through each atrocity she faces, we as an audience are reminded by the white ghosts that she is not at ease. Title slides appear at different moments throughout the film and denote our young protagonist's ages throughout the film: 12, 13 and 14 years old. Displaying her age, rather than a date and time, reminds us of the innocence robbed as we travel with the main character through her struggles as she "forces tears back into her eyes." Were it not for these displays of her age, we would forget that the strength shown by the young woman is actually shown by a child. Nguyen excels at reminding the audience of this, in portraying the child's coping mechanisms through supernatural visions, and at having us witness tragedy without astoundingly gory scenes that, while they may be more accurate, would distract from our journey with the child.Visit aMovieaCountryaJourney.com for more.

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