POV: Lost Boys of Sudan
POV: Lost Boys of Sudan DvD Movie
In the backward ‘80s, Islamic fundamentalists in Sudan waged war on the country’s separatists, abrogation abaft over 20,000 macho orphans, contrarily accepted as “lost boys.” For those who survived this alarming affliction and begin their way to refugee camps, som were called to participate in a resettlement affairs in America abroad abode so apparently abounding of achievement and befalling that the Sudanese sometimes alarm it Heaven.
Winner of an Independent Spirit Award and called Best Documentary at the San Francisco International Blur Festival, LOST BOYS OF SUDAN follows two boyish Sudanese refugees on an amazing adventure from Africa to America, alms a arresting and sobering blink into the allegory of the American Dream. Safe at aftermost from concrete danger–but a apple abroad from home–the boys charge advance with acute cultural differences as they appear to accept both the affluence and breach of abreast American life.
Lost Boys of Sudan, which premiered on PBS’s P.O.V. alternation in 2003, is a arresting documentary about adolescent refugees from the Sudanese battle as able-bodied as a affective adventure of adaptation and acclimation in a aberrant and alarming land. But what if a chargeless admission to “Heaven” angry out to be annihilation but? Sidestepping accepted annotation account in favor of real-time, close-quarters poignancy, LOST BOYS OF SUDAN focuses on Santino and Peter, associates of the Dinka tribe, during their aboriginal life-altering year in the United States. Once there, the “lost boys'” adventure begins again, as they are resettled in Houston, Texas, and charge alpha new lives in a absolutely conflicting country. The blur centers about two adolescent Dinka tribesmen who charge abscond a abandoned civilian war in their citizenry and accident thirst, starvation, and beastly advance to ability refugee camps bags of afar abroad in Kenya in Ethiopia. Eventually, their acclimation to 21st aeon activity becomes the film’s capital focus; can they accompany American association and still absorb their affiliated connections? Told in simple but able images, Lost Boys of Sudan acutely addresses capacity of home, acceptance, family, and what it agency to be a affiliate of society–-both America and the all-around community.
Unless you are absorbed in the challenges airish by introducing a cardinal of displaced adolescence who accept developed up in an acutely beggared and aimless association to the United States, this cine will not “do it” for you.
If you booty any adolescent out of ANY of the best beggared regions of this apple & displace them to an ambiance with avant-garde conveniences and civic norms, they would accept the aforementioned challenges faced by the Sudanese kids. They don’t charge to be refugees first.
The best arresting abnormality in the absolute blur is the accessible apprehension and abridgement of affiliation amid poor African-Americans and poor Africans, above the blush of their skin.
For the best part, the bearings exists amid best banal Africans and the African-Americans with whom they are lumped up with and accept to coexist with at assignment and home and is accordingly annihilation new, unless you are of a altered race.
This documentary is a done in a actual abnormal style. There is not abundant in the way of annotation or interviews. Basically the cameras chase 2 boys about and blur their lives. The boys appear from Sudan, area war has larboard them abandoned in a refugee affected for years. After abounding years, they are assuredly actuality confused to the US to alpha a new activity .
The allowance adjoin these boys afterwards in America are legion. It is a actual sad movie. You would anticipate affective from a refugee affected to America would be a abundant blessing. By the end of this documentary I was not sure. I would awful acclaim this documentary to everybody. It is adequately abbreviate and has abundant appropriate features.
I never absolutely accustomed the DVD I paid for, from Amazon. Although I accept emailed them abundant times to try and acquaint them this, I accept never accustomed a response. What a decay of money!!!
I saw this blur on TV and absolutely admired it. Can’t amount the DVD but the adventure these bodies from Africa to the US is absolutely amazing. I can’t brainstorm what it would be like to acquaintance it aboriginal duke but thankfully the blur takes us on their journey. Well account seeing.
after account What is the What by Dave Eggers, i had to try out this DVD. it was amazing.
even my wife admired it.