6/10
Exploiting the purity of others to rekindle the lost spark inside ourselves
12 August 2007
Effective though tiring documentary captures some amazing moments traveling with three Sudanese gentlemen as they are transported to the United States in programs designated to uplift their living experience. The irony these filmmakers expose in their work by showing the contrasting happiness found by these impoverished men in more dire circumstances runs deep. The multiple, gently condescending cultural errors we witness and laugh at (though hopefully with) are done with a warm heart. Eventually though, this initially promising odyssey looses steam thematically and narratively, ending up taking the exciting and fun concept (practically a real life "Coming To America") and overextending into more generic, though equally uplifting terrain that has become kind of prevalent in our rich-white-Hollywood world colliding with the humanitarian efforts throughout Africa- results often feel compassionate, yet still feel slightly exploitive and pandering.
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