koolbloke

It is the complication some of us turn our lives into that most comedies rotate around and this comedy does exactly that.

I liked in particular that it is unbiased toward gender: it bluntly shows people's stereotypes and pre-conceived convictions and their forming of a complexity in lives that would otherwise be so simple.

It makes look at things from our partner's perspective and see how deceiving our perceptions to lead to unnecessary conflict. I guess if we could always be sensible, we would be able to see how pathetically biased our views are at times.

Overall, this film helps us laugh at our own erroneous judgements.

Like anything, people will offer their own view of things. This is my own.

There are many films out there that focus on bullying and its effect on the children that experience it. A few will go further to picture the consequences to those children as they become adults, some of whom will never overcome that.

But it was the first time, from my perspective, that a film ventures to show bullying by an adult. As the stories (in Africa and in Denmark) run in parallel, it makes one wonder what the child bully would become if he were not stopped.

Brilliantly told, it left me with a sense that in our days we are still not taking bullying as seriously as we should. So how can the bullies ?

Rather than focusing on the day of the attack and and lingering on the terrible moments displayed by various TV channels, the film direct us to the people whose lives got impacted on that day and their struggles to move on.

One may think the story of the young boy looks at first absurd but how else could a kid at his age copy with that ?

In moments of pain, it is difficult at times to make sense of a loss. It is time and the true effort to get one's life going that give one the power to find the strength to move on.

"Extremely Human and Incredibly Close to our Hearts"