Timbuktu is set in 2014 africa where islamic religion police came to enforce new laws on the city as well as there own version of the religion already in the country and abolish it making Timbuktu a second/"extension" of islam. This fact means people want to go against there new "enforcers" to the point where people are doing such tragic and hideous things such as playing music and being expressive which is stricly forbidden and is punishable by stoning lashes or firing squad.
so Timbuktu is not a very nice place to live but not far from timbuktu, Kidane (one of the many main characters) lives peacefully in the dunes with his wife Satima, his daughter Toya and Issan their 12 year old shepherd. Kidane and his family are being spared the chaos that prevails in timbuktu but their destiny changes after one of the favourite cattle GPS is killed after destroying a fisher mans nets what follows show the jihadists legal system at work.
the performances of the characters is amazing seemed so realistic up until the last few minutes of the film where i found it unrealistic but that was my opinion. Kidane has been living for one purpose to see his daughter again before he dies that is all he ask's and while the wife Satima is a strong mother figure carming down Toya whenever they start to worry about her farther and when he is coming home after an accident happens. Toya and Issan are also very believable characters with them helping out Staima whenever possible and respecting kidane so much to the point that they actually run after him just to give him a hug and tell him that she loves him shows what a young kid would do when they are not spoilt when they know the joy of having a family that actually loves her without being distracted by a phone or a xbox or a iPad is something to see as this is what seems to be anything that is in the media never what a family life should be of being together happily but what it could be with all latest gadgets which only the insanely rich can afford them all.
the setting for this is a rare one as you always hear about people dieing left and right in africa due to jihadist extremists and jihadist in general but this is a surreal window into what we hear about there in front of us and isn't something made up by the media and is just as shocking as they say on the media.
in conclusion Timbuktu is a very good film with showing a different social realism to what we may be used to as this is what some people have to live through everyday of there life which is shocking when you think about it with stellar performances for 90% of the film isn't bad maybe next time it could be 100% but this doesn't harm the film much but its proberly biggest fault is that the passing of the film is very slow even though it shows real life and life docent go as fast as a blockbuster but some scenes where pointless.
so Timbuktu is not a very nice place to live but not far from timbuktu, Kidane (one of the many main characters) lives peacefully in the dunes with his wife Satima, his daughter Toya and Issan their 12 year old shepherd. Kidane and his family are being spared the chaos that prevails in timbuktu but their destiny changes after one of the favourite cattle GPS is killed after destroying a fisher mans nets what follows show the jihadists legal system at work.
the performances of the characters is amazing seemed so realistic up until the last few minutes of the film where i found it unrealistic but that was my opinion. Kidane has been living for one purpose to see his daughter again before he dies that is all he ask's and while the wife Satima is a strong mother figure carming down Toya whenever they start to worry about her farther and when he is coming home after an accident happens. Toya and Issan are also very believable characters with them helping out Staima whenever possible and respecting kidane so much to the point that they actually run after him just to give him a hug and tell him that she loves him shows what a young kid would do when they are not spoilt when they know the joy of having a family that actually loves her without being distracted by a phone or a xbox or a iPad is something to see as this is what seems to be anything that is in the media never what a family life should be of being together happily but what it could be with all latest gadgets which only the insanely rich can afford them all.
the setting for this is a rare one as you always hear about people dieing left and right in africa due to jihadist extremists and jihadist in general but this is a surreal window into what we hear about there in front of us and isn't something made up by the media and is just as shocking as they say on the media.
in conclusion Timbuktu is a very good film with showing a different social realism to what we may be used to as this is what some people have to live through everyday of there life which is shocking when you think about it with stellar performances for 90% of the film isn't bad maybe next time it could be 100% but this doesn't harm the film much but its proberly biggest fault is that the passing of the film is very slow even though it shows real life and life docent go as fast as a blockbuster but some scenes where pointless.
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