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Poor Kid

posted 17 years ago by galada_isis
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This movie is so depressing, but I guess that is what you would expect from a movie protraying colonialism. Mwangi was trapped, in a way, from both sides (British and the revolutionaries). He had to work for a British family so he could help his mother and then one night was forced to pledge allegiance to the rebels. The matriarch of the British family was such a sullen woman that I was a little happy when her husband cheated on her. She treated her servants like they were a piece of sh** especially Mwangi. She had no sympathy. Their 13 or 14 son wasn't any better; he acted like he was king of the jungle. All in all it was a good movie, but just too depressing. Don't go into this movie thinking there will be a happy ending because there isn't one.

[–] quigley_brown-1 16 years ago

Ditto. I just watched it last night. The white son reminded me of a member of the Hitler Youth.

[–] chuckleberryfinn21 15 years ago

Thats not entirely unexpected.

[–] Captain_Bob 13 years ago

At the risk of sounding insensitive, did anyone else burst out laughing when young Edward accidentally shot his own mother as she was being dragged away by the attackers? Yeah I know that's mean but she was such a snooty pompous colonial bitch. She treated Mwangi like shyt and scolded him for the slightest error. It sucked though at the end when the "police" shot Mwangi. He got such a raw deal out of life.