I think sometimes it's best to see a movie without knowing anything about it - - you take the time to puzzle it out, get oriented, and if it pleases or intrigues you, then you let it unfold as it may. This is how I encountered this film, and I enjoyed every minute. It's a very long movie, and it rambles a bit, but you learn to care for the sweet characters: the Canadian teen and his newfound friendship with an African peer, Themba; Tunami, Themba's sister and first love interest, who needs to make her own way in the world; the village men and women who depend on one water hole and their jobs at the mine for their very lives.
Yes, you see the evil ones, the poachers, the users of people, and you learn to deal with misery and death, but there's no need to knock your teeth out with it -- we get it, gently.
Some quiet afternoon, try this one out, and lose yourself to the beauty and wisdom of the simple South African life. It's time well spent.
