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Customs
are different from culture to culture. Vaginal mutilation of the young women in
African Islamic societies that represents the main subject of Senegali ”Moolaade”
will come as a shock to Westerners, as well as the constant reminder of how
important and difficult the fight for the rights of women was significant and
hard in the past centuries.
Despite
the harshness of the script layout, overall acting and depiction is somehow
diminished by the naïve and unnecessary serenity of the self-taught
protagonists.
”Moolaade”
is one of those flicks where the subject is more important than the movie as a
whole.
