Friday, September 12, 2014

Stop The Pounding Heart

documentary

Mildly interesting as anthropology. We follow a 14 year old girl as she does chores on her parent's goat farm, sells cheese at farmers' markets, tends to her many siblings, flirts (sort of) with the boy next door who is a neophyte bull rider. The family are rigid christian fundamentalists.

This girl seems to be having doubts accepting the extremely restricted role laid out for her in the magic book but I got no sense that she would be able to throw off this terrible yoke. A curse on true believers...they cause more suffering than any other human weakness.

Film was much too long for the point it made. Too much aimless mooching-around scenes. Might have worked at twenty minutes or so.

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