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Kirikou et la sorcière (1998)
Kirikou et la Sorcière
Kirikou et la Sorcière Kirikou is a young boy who was just born at the beginning of the movie. One of his better characteristics that he has is bravery. He comes out as this little boy, and all of the children in the village always make fun of him and just tell him that he is too young and small. What they do not know is that he is a hero to their village. The entire village is scared of the sorcerer. She has power, an army and the fear of everyone. The entire village feels like she is the one who took their water from them. The sorcerer takes their gold and their men, from what they think. Kirikou wants to help the last male fighter from the village to fight this sorcerer. Kirikou learns of his grandfather. His grandfather has power and knowledge. Kirikou is the only one who is small enough to sneak past the sorcerer underground. He finds out that she only has evil in her because she has a thorn in her back that is causing her great pain. Kirikou, being brave decides he will be the one to pull out the thorn. The thorn being nailed in her back was a metaphor for her being raped. After he removes the thorn she becomes nice again. She has been given freedom from kirikou. She gives him whatever he wants after this. Kirikou receives a kiss from her, and he becomes a big strong man and him and the sorcerer fall in love. This was a movie that I really enjoyed. It was really funny. The movie kind of impressed me because, the music was very interesting. It used many different colors for good and evil. After reading "The Rabbi's Cat" , I was able to notice the color difference. I liked how they made a small boy become a hero in the movie. The entire time this movie really kept my attention. It had a very good story to it also. In a way I can relate to kirikou. When I was really young, I was always the smallest one in my group of friends that I hung out with. A lot of the time I was shut out from sports, games and other activities because I was always so small. But I ended up proving myself to everyone that I might be small, but I am also pretty good at things, just like everyone else was. Being the smaller one, you always feel like you have to prove yourself, and that makes you do things better and also brings out a brave side just like in Kirikous case.
Twist à Popenguine (1994)
Popenguine Colonized
The movie "rocking Popenguine"(In the English title of it) was over all a good movie. Besides to reading the subtitles it was really good. In the beginning I thought this was going to be a movie about a war between two young gangs. I figured it was going to turn out to be a sad ending. The Kings, who were all about appearance, and the in's who had the girls were always against each other. The both have something that the other gang does not. In this story, they focus on colonization of the children. The small village was pretty much being colonized by the French. They were going to school to learn nothing but French. . Mr. Benoit, who is a well-respected man living in the village is the teacher. The town loves him and they show it in the movie after his drunken rant he has. Even though he was disrespectful and spoke words that he did not believe in, the town came together to show him how they feel about him. He points out in the story that the children are to speak nothing but French while they are in school. If the children were to break this rule, they would get the stick. In the movie, the parents are the only ones who speak pure Wolof. This can kind of be compared to the story nervous conditions, because the children in nervous conditions are colonized and the parents are pure shona. In a way it is the same.
In the end of the movie I was surprised on how everyone came together and it was such a happy ending. I was not expecting it at all. They threw the best party that they have ever had. All the kids from the school were happy and having a good time. I noticed the music towards the end of the movie went from being in English, to being in French. I thought that was really interesting how they changed that.\ In the end it was a really good movie. It ended in a good peaceful way. It was very unexpected how it ended with the two going under the table to get away from supervision. It was so unexpected. I did like how they explained what everyone was doing in their future, and how they all became pretty successful people.