Although Kinsky is too shy to be menacing, he and Shandurai aren't really on an equal plane. Shandurai is plagued by nightmares in which she's tearing down the posters of the Leader back in Africa, even finding one with Kinsky's face on it. At the end, you can see an art-deco lamp in the form of a Ubangi woman. Even if this is just some gewgaw Kinksy's aunt has left him, it's a weird breach of taste. Seeing that ugly lamp there for the one moment, I doubted that Shandurai was loved for her grace as a woman, instead of her exoticness as an African.
Few epics work all the way through.
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