While the opening credits of the movie suggest that this is a true story I could not help but wonder after viewing two hours of waiting for something why anyone would want to know anything about this true story.
A beautiful woman is in a vehicle with friends going somewhere to continue a night of fun. A fellow passenger is pregnant and a brief discussion about children follows. Here is an American or is she Italian?, person out with the gang while her son, who she loves, is home alone. The tragic car accident takes place as no one is allowed to have fun in this movie, remember, no one is allowed to have fun in this movie.
The hospital stay just goes on for ever and ever. The stages of makeup possibly suggests that the sequence was shot in reverse order so that it would be easier to add the more severe damage in each scene and thereby save time for the removal of additional makeup each day to show that Kuki is getting better.
Who is this woman? Why is she in Italy? Who was her ex-husband? How does she support herself after we find that she lives in her mother's house which she rents from dear old mom. How can she afford it?
Beautiful Africa, countryside, lake, animals, alive and dead. When is the movie going to start? How can the characters in this movie afford the ranch? What are they doing to pay for the work on the ranch? Do the Natives work for free? How did the new ranch owners learn to speak the native language so quickly? Help us out folks!
Life in Africa is no bed of roses but please, there are good times that do take place. Something worthwhile and redeeming will happen but will it take place in this movie? No!
What was Kuki doing with the bulldozer that she managed to get stuck in the mud. She built a dam? Where? All we saw was the machine stuck in the mud.
Is the life of the people on the ranch that devastating that we should be depressed with them? Granted the loss of a husband and a son is horrible but the movie almost telegraphed what was going to take place. The husband just can't stay still, he has to be on the move all the time. The son must play with snakes, watch out, he will be bitten some day and die.
AS my wife and I were leaving the movie with the other couple that attended the show with us we spoke with other patrons of the show and came to a general agreement,with the exception of the wife of the other couple, it was a huge waste of time. One kept waiting for something to make the movie interesting. Waiting describes what we were doing. We could have all gone out for popcorn and returned and still found the same depressing movie still stuck in the mud with the bulldozer.
Granted, the preservation of animals that are endangered is a good cause. Taking care of the environment is also a good cause but please not in this venue.
I am sure that the real person that was portrayed in the movie has managed to keep her sanity while everything around her is turning to disaster and I admire her courage in handling the loss of her husband and son.
I feel that the story of this woman could have been better told by someone who was not just throwing a bunch of scenes together and once filmed, cut the film and drop them on the floor only to be picked up and spliced together to make this movie.
Save your money, find something else to do. Don't bother with the video when it comes out as you may never view it again once you bring it home.
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