{"id":13139,"date":"2019-09-22T20:00:34","date_gmt":"2019-09-23T00:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=13139"},"modified":"2019-09-22T16:22:26","modified_gmt":"2019-09-22T20:22:26","slug":"rafiki-2018-wanuri-kahiu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/13139","title":{"rendered":"Rafiki (2018 Wanuri Kahiu)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The most colorful African movie we’ve seen – well-acted, a high-quality production with a timely subject. Shame about the weak and obvious script. At least that was my position before reading Sarah-Tai Black’s Cinema Scope article<\/a>, which basically says to shut up about the conventional structure and narrative, since it’s a groundbreaking film in other, important ways.<\/p>\n

Kena (right) and Ziki should’ve known better than to hang out near these spies:<\/em>
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Kena’s dad is a shopkeeper who recently ditched Kena’s very religious mom to start a new family, and he’s in a political race against Ziki’s dad (Dennis Musyoka, a small role in Sense8<\/em>). Kena starts ditching her would-be-boyfriend Blacksta and the daughter of the local gossip when she meets Ziki, and the two start growing closer until, inevitably, they get caught, beaten, arrested, preached-at and prayed-for, and permanently separated. I’m pretty sure Kena becomes a doctor at the end and Ziki moves away.<\/p>\n

Kena hashes things out with Blacksta, but spies are everywhere:<\/em>
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Katy and I have also seen Kahiu’s awesome dystopian short<\/a> and her feature drama<\/a> about people connecting in the wake of Kenyan embassy bombings, and will be sitting tight waiting for the next one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The most colorful African movie we’ve seen – well-acted, a high-quality production with a timely subject. Shame about the weak and obvious script. At least that was my position before reading Sarah-Tai Black’s Cinema Scope article, which basically says to shut up about the conventional structure and narrative, since it’s a groundbreaking film in other, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1049,42,1062,2562],"class_list":["post-13139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2010s","tag-africa","tag-kenya","tag-wanuri-kahiu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13159,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13139\/revisions\/13159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}