i m not the most "artsy" person by any means, so forgive me if this question seems a bit stupid, but what do you all suppose happens to madiba and estelle. i loved the movie but it KILLS me that i don't know what happened to them. all i can do is hope that someday the talents that those two possessed would bring hem happiness and success
what do you all think happened?
I was wondering that too after the movie. WHat happened to the story? The intrigue? The plot?
Movie just so, so. It had great characters, however fell WAY short of expecations and purpose. What was the music teachers purpose? Needed to involve that. Needed to have deeper plot betwen estella and excuse me for not remembering but kid with the gun. Really could have been a nice little film, yet played it too safe and never really realized its potential. I would say 6.3-6.6. If they would have ended a great purpose, more tension and some intrigue I could be swayed as high as 8... if you like this watch City of gods...way better
In a strange way, it's also one of the _best_ things about the film. None of us know for sure where we'll end up. We can make plans and try, but chance plays a part, as does circumstance. It would have been such a sellout movie if it had a fairytale ending. Instead, you're left in the same position that Madiba and Estelle are - with enduring hope, resilience, strength and determination. The best movies are those that leave us thinking about the characters for whatever reason. I found it uplifting in that sense.
When I was in highschool in Melbourne Australia, one of the novels we studied (I think it was year 8) was 'All the Green Year' by an Australian author. It was a coming of age story of sorts, where the main characters go through a fair bit, and one of them runs off. I consider myself very lucky (and no doubt the era I was in highschool happily coincided with the author's twilight years where he did this sort of thing a bit) - the author actually came to our school and gave a talk about the book, his feelings about the characters and so forth. An interesting thing he mentioned - the book ended a little bit like this film - with hope, but still the unknown ahead of them - anyway he mentioned that he initially had an extra chapter at the end, where the main character wrote to the other one, saying he'd found work interstate (I forget what, I think possibly shearing, but no matter). And at his wife's suggestion, he left that chapter off the final submission. And even at that young age, it was pretty clear that the impact of the book (and by this extended metaphor, the impact of the film) would have been diluted if we knew 'everything' that happened thereafter.
Just one person's opinion mind you!
Estelle probably realised that made a mistake. Its ridiculuos that a movie like this should be marked family where a rich and rebellious young girl runs off with a poor boy. Where would estelle get the money from to support her lifestyle she is used to ? And what kind of happiness could she get from a boy from the slums , say after a week or two ?
You want to encourage kids to watch this crap by calling it family ?
even monkeys fall from trees
Couldn't agree more with you. I guess spoiled white ingrates exists even in Africa. I noticed Estelle surrounded herself with pop-Leftwing tripe...Malcolm X book, Bob Marley quotes, and her general antagonistic disdain for anything authoritative. This portrayal diminished the movie for me; I was hoping some corrective balance would have been employed but alas; if you're Caucausian, rich, and successful that's an automatic disqualification from any virtue.
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