I Have just seen iNxeba ...here is my two cents....its an incredibly powerful and moving film...it would have to be to arouse such emotion...it has nothing to do with exposing secrets of initiation .. The background is incidental.
A good movie transcends its setting and becomes universal..compare with Deer hunter or Apocalypse now or Platoon...they depict universal themes against the backdrop of the american military. Many people were upset that they showed the american military in a bad light... But they didn't try to get the movie banned or protest against the movie. No one would say to you you have no right to comment on those movies because you never been in the american army.
INxeba is the story of two men who love each other in a time and place when it is not allowed and the tragedy that results from that. I believe that anger at the film has nothing to do with the fact that cultural secrets are being exposed but because it dares show such love in a place which represents the heart of traditional masculinity. It is a universal story set in an African setting It also shows some of the most intimate and shocking images of man on man sex outside of pornography. Another reason it arouses so much anger
It is not a happy story and I agree that with some of my friends that more positive and celebratory stories of African gayness do exist and need to be told. But this story also needed to be told.
I believe this movie puts other movies it has been compared to...like moonlight...to shame and it will go down as a classic of African cinema
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