Sometimes, when I watch a movie, I end feeling somewhat confused by what I'm looking at. It's not that I don't understand the plot or the characters, I understand them plenty. It's just I feel confused by what's going on and I wonder how the people in the movie can make something so small feel so big. That's how I felt when I watched Moolaade and even I write this, I still feel confused by the movie.
The film revolves around a African woman named Colle, who's strongly against the custom of women having their genitals cut. In order to protect a group of little girls who are forced to have their genitals removes, Colle performs a Moolaade, or Magical Protection barrier in order to protect. When I saw that, I instantly asked myself why is she going through all the trouble of doing that. It's not that I'm for genital cutting, but why perform some ritual that the viewer knows is a scare tactic. People in the movie are seen walking through it so it should be obvious that it doesn't work. Maybe I'm just being critical, but I just found that to be really confusing and somewhat dumb.
Other than that, I really don't have much to say about the movie as a whole. I think it's worth a watch if your interested in the argument on whether or not women should have their genitals cut. All I recommend is that you prepare yourself for some scenes that you might not understand and that the movie itself is spoken in another language, which means you'll have to read the subtitles.
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