And So Angels Die and the Reading

This film was absolutely baffling. There was so much going on I could barely keep up to what was going on. Eventually I figured out that Mory was played by multiple actors. The story line, in my opinion, was all over the place. Mory was engaged to one woman, and then he had married another woman. It was not really explained. I know Mory's father wanted Mory to marry someone else but it was foggy. Also, I had no idea what those two women that kept being shown on camera had to do with anything.

You could just tell that this was a low budget film from the way it was shot. After I read the Mermin reading, I figured out that Senegal highly taxes filmmaking because it is under Europe's control. "One cannot talk about Senegalese cinema without talking about problems of finance and production. Senegal has no shortage of aspiring filmmakers, but there is a lack of technicians, producers, materials, laboratory facilities, film schools, and financial support. Much more often than not the camera-person, many of the technicians, and the producers of Senegalese films are European. This depen- dence (usually on France) is intricately and persistently tied up with any attempt to define Senegalese cinema, and much writing and discussion have been devot- ed to its complexities (see Diawara; Traore "Cinema er Libertes")." Senegal has a lot of of problems when it comes to making films. 

I think that, again, this shows how lucky we are. The film quality here is better because of the higher amount of money that people have to spend. I think that these films are made for people that live in places like Senegal or Africa, because maybe people are in the same boat or have had to deal with similar situations. The main similarity that people in the United States could identify with is that many couple have had to deal with parental disapproval before.