Moffie

A pesar que la película es un poco lenta sin mayores expectativas, logra cautivarte y atraparte en ese mundo machista del ejercito, en donde no se da cabida a la tolerancia. Los actores son de primer nivel excelentes no tienen nada que envidiarles a los actores hollywoodenses. 👍🏻👌🏻👌👍

It seemed like a rather pointless story. Don't bother.

a rollercoaster ride of emotions while having butterflies in your stomach. the cinematography and the actors' performances is breathtaking and top tier. Moffie is heartbreakingly gorgeous, a breath of fresh air in the lgbt list of movies. a film that earned a place inside the audience hearts especially mine. Kai Luke Brümmer and Ryan de Villiers deserves an Oscar for their performance. a movie and cast to dearly remember. must see, indeed.

Definitely felt something in that movie that makes you express various emotions from minute to minute.

Delicate, yet brutal, 'Moffie' is a fine piece of cinema in which I found myself desperately rooting for the characters to find happiness. It's a South African coming of age war drama that cuts hard while showing apartheid in 1981. The music here is captivating and adds to the power of what the film is able to accomplish. This is a hidden gem, with a queer subtext that is very intense. Final Score: 8.7/10

Filmed with beauty. Moffie takes a deep look into history and the struggles that comes with it.

Intensely emotional at parts, this film is a great representation of what men go through in spaces like the army without repercussions. Bullying and mob mentality is used to push them to ever-increasing levels of aggression and apathy. In the film, there are some harrowing moments portraying South Africa's oppressive laws at the time, which gets quite tense at times. The acting is spectacular, the scenery beautiful, and the ending emotionally jarring. It left me wanting more!

The sentimentality explored by the direction of this film shows how a low budget film about war can be considered a masterpiece, the sensitivity and oppression explored in "Moffie" manages to keep us entertained from beginning to end.

RATING: A Director: David Hermanus Moffie is one hell of an hard watch and is definitely not what you'd expect from an war film ( for instance it doesn't have some big budget fighting scenes ). The lead really makes you feel for him and you'll really hate the sort of camp overseer, so he's great. Obviously it makes it more realistic that the film is bilingual and there's not that much of English dialogue. That the Filmmakers chose a 1.37:1 Aspect Ratio makes it sort of boxy ( for "there's no escape ).

When a closeted gay South African teen (a "moffie" in local derogatory lingo) is conscripted into the military in 1981 to fight encroaching Angolan communists and to enforce the nation's existing apartheid laws, he's not sure how to handle himself. And, unfortunately, neither is director Oliver Hermanus when it comes to telling his story. The film's seemingly solid and ironic premise -- that of someone in a persecuted community having to enforce legally sanctioned discriminatory policies against members of other persecuted constituencies -- should have been enough in itself to drive the narrative of this offering. However, Hermanus frequently goes off point (and, in turn, off the rails) in examining other less engaging tangents, drawing attention away from what should have easily made this picture work best. Odd editing, an inconsistent use of flashbacks, a patchwork of incompatible camera techniques and an almost-corny soundtrack don't help matters, either. To the director's credit, he does a credible job of presenting the extremes of emotion that men are capable of, from horrifically barbaric to eminently sensitive and caring, in large part through homages to movies like "Full Metal Jacket" (1987) and "Brokeback Mountain" (sans cowboys) (2005). But, these few strengths aside, "Moffie" is a major disappointment, and that's regrettable, as this BAFTA-nominated release was something I was truly looking forward to.