Product: Nowhere in Africa (2003)
Rating: 5.0
Nowhere in Africa
It's a special form of torture to watch DVDs that feature Africa's natural beauty when you live in China. The typical movie about what the Nazis did to the Jews doesn't make me feel a damn thing. They're so heavy-handed that all I come away with is blunt force trauma. This one's different. A family ran like hell to Kenya or Nairobi or some damn place in Africa so isolated that it doesn't even matter what we call it. Think of all the obvious themes you can. Then stretch your imagination and come up with a few more. All are covered here, with a subtle hand, and you feel it. Powerfully. You're moved. You cringe over here and laugh over there, and in this other place you just get kinda disgusted with some people. Autobiographical, and it deserves its Oscar and its other awards.