This film featured the ups and downs of an uneducated common laborer as he frabs his way through life. He starts off working at an ostrich farm...which provides some striking visuals. In fact the whole film is nicely shot with a good flair for interesting angles, perspectives.
Unfortunately the protagonist is another lower-class bonehead who richly deserves his failures. He, and most every other male in the film, is highly excitable and all of them...of whatever class...shout at each other continuously. Is this a cultural trait? It makes them seem like overgrown children to me. The children also shout.
The story, such as it is, shows the lead slowly coming to realize some life lessons but when we fade to black I had no sense he was going to be any better at dealing with life's vicissitudes than he was at the beginning.
5
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