drhupp This movie was very extraordinary and it is one of the first movies I've ever seen with a female child soldier. The way this movie begins is quite gory, where the girl is captured but she is forced to shoot her parents, something I could never imagine having to do. Then having to live with the people who just killed your entire village, very unimaginable. The idea of Witchcraft in this movie seems a little far fetched to me, I don't believe in magic so I'm not sure why the rebels think that they can win the war if they have to Witch. I really liked how the movie showed the progression of the main character by showing us two years of her life. She faced great amounts of adversity, the main thing that showed this was when she killed the rebel general by doing a not so okay thing to him. The way this movie ends is not the most awful or best ways I've ever seen, she ends up having a baby that does not belong to her Albino husband. She also gets on a bus headed to the butcher's house, so it seems as if things may start working out for her.

Pablo Rebelle was a very interesting movie in my opinion. I knew a lot of African countries were struggling economically and in terms of civil unrest etc., but I never really thought of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Mainly after the events in Libya and especially what is going on in the Middle East right now, I didn't really pay any attention to how any other country was doing. After this film however, I now see how many countries are currently going through tough times all at the same time also! It's crazy to think how blind we can become to other problems in the world that don't directly affect us in any way. I thought this film had a lot of similar characteristics to other films we've watched. There is this reoccurring style of long periods of silence that we have gotten in many movies along with very little dialogue. This movie has little internal dialogue and most of the speaking is in the form of the main character telling a story of her life. I find this type of movie to be pretty interesting because its so different to what we are normally exposed to in movie theaters here in St. Pete or elsewhere. I didn't really like how there were quite a bit of unexplained things. For example, where specifically she lived, what the governmental situation was at the time, the towns they would go to while looking for the white rooster, etc. Another thing I found interesting was that when they showed the ghosts every so often, it wasn't CGI effects, it was real people that were painted white. I thought this was a clever use of resources.

Holly Taplin I watched it last night, I couldn't stop crying, it was heart breaking, to see people, being treated, like no one should ever be treated. I don't understand why people do the things they do, It's just wrong that we live in a world where this goes on, Africa must be the hardest country to live in, my heart goes out to everyone there, cause it just isn't fair that anyone has to go through this one life we have like this! There aren't any words what can express what those people go through , Not that I would understand anyway, it's far from from my little world. It was enlightening for me though, I don't know much about Africa, but It is clear as day, that this violent reality of life they live, has to end! we need to put an end to this senseless brutality, it just shouldn't exist anywhere!

brucetwo-2 I thought I'd hate this film--another "60-minutes"-like guilt-trip about child soldiers. But it was something else--a personal story, an adventure, a love story, etc. The camera-work and editing were original and very good--all done in a low-budget way. Art over technology!The story itself felt very real even though it is also very classic and very generic: --war-time, challenge, and hope of redemption. She gets pregnant, has to return home, things get worse before they get better, etc. It reminds me of a Brazilian film I saw about street kids back in the 1980s or 1990s--"Pixote." The homeless street kids in Brazil didn't have AK47 guns, but their lives followed a similar story. "Streetwise" an American documentary about homeless teenagers in Seattle also has similar stories--growing up too fast. Sad to think this is true all over, which also makes it so classic. Faulkner's novel "LIGHT IN AUGUST" comes to mind too--many parallels. And then there are the ongoing drone-strikes the US does all over the world--more disrupted lives, more rebels--and more movies...