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# TIMBUKTU DVD

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Must be understood in context
  

*by T***M on Reviewed in the United States on January 10, 2020*

For several years, I lived in rural, arid Senegal near the tri-border with Mali and Mauritania (TIMBUKTU was filmed in Mauritania by a Mauritanian director/screenwriter).  I learned an African language and exerted considerable effort in order to learn about cultural traditions, storytelling, etc.  My knowledge is still quite limited.  Nonetheless, my experience can explain some of the one- and two-star reviews for this film, though those reviews will assuredly align with the preferences for a subset of prospective viewers from the US.(1)  Standards for entertainment are different in different parts of the world.  On the West African side of the Sahel, stories are not constructed with the sole intention of throwing "plot twists" at viewers to maximize the surprise of the resolution.  Rather, storytelling is a medium for sharing moral norms, teaching lessons, and uniting audiences behind a message.  In the case of TIMBUKTU, the disruption of normal life from an outside force, disguised as a voice for Islam, invades the routines of rural-dwelling Muslims.  The resulting lessons are significant, for a vast majority of the population reasons about morality from an Islamic perspective.(2)  Personality types reflect accepted personalities within the dominant culture of an area.  Nearly all psychology research in the world builds consensus about personality from experiments conducted on WEIRD subjects--Western, Educated, and from Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic countries.  The spectrum of personality types outlined in Western psychology simply does not capture the diversity elsewhere in the world (i.e., not that people aren't either introverts or extroverts, but a framework like the Myers-Briggs means very little in rural Mauritania).  Even in real life, old men speak like sages, at times, because that's what's expected.  Children are treated as innocents, and commonly perceived as manifestations of the divine in our world.  Traditional coupling assumes women are subordinate to their husbands in formal settings, though that status does not mean they are not agents or devoid of influence (e.g., the quiet wisdom of Satima's character).  Certainly, iconoclastic personalities exist, but they conform to and break convention in particular ways based on conventions in the place where the iconoclasts have maturated (hard to see within one's own culture, but I would argue iconoclasm follows the same patterns in the US).(3)  Similarly to (2), character archetypes originate from media popular in the Sahel, not from Hollywood productions or Western literature.(4)  A minority of households have access to a television.  Those people who do have access to TV tend to reside in urban landscapes.  Thus, acting and directing are still in their infancy in this part of the world.  For anyone from the US watching this movie, the acting will seem stilted in the same way that older television from the US does (1950s-1990s).  Audiences in the Sahel do not need to forget that they are watching actors pretending to be characters.  Acting is approached as performance.  We, in the US, are impressed by an actor's ability to wholly become the character; e.g., Daniel Day Lewis.  That idea's simply not relevant to most audiences in the Sahel (my observation, however fallible).(5)  Reactions to action can be exaggerated.  Most people in the rural Sahel will have seen, or participated in, theatrical performances at a village level.  This film, in calculated scenes, stays loyal to such localized performances.  Facial expressions, posture, and bodily motions reflect phenomena in a way recognizable to all audience members, and there is an art to these culturally embedded mannerisms, akin to traditional Chinese theater or any other canon.  As an outsider, one will not necessarily recognize these moments, and the scenes will not elicit the emotional responses that they will for someone from the West African Sahel.  I can say, for one, that the translation is not perfect, which also accounts for missed subtlety.TIMBUKTU moves slowly.  The story unveils oppression from a fundamentalist ideology that does not share the values or dignity of the local brand of Islam.  If one is willing to check Western expectations at the door, TIMBUKTU is worth watching and contemplating.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    A beautifully filmed, very emotional movie
  

*by K***C on Reviewed in the United States on October 25, 2016*

A stunningly emotional film. Depicts the transition from a peaceful town to one ruled by fundamentalists armed with machine guns and Sharia law.  It takes place slowly enough, and the villagers take it in stride in the beginning, with their own religious leaders attempting to teach the fundamentalists to be more lenient, more forgiving, based on their understanding of Islam. But unfortunately, as with many religious texts, you can argue almost any position and find supportive passages, and the fundamentalists have the upper hand as they have anointed themselves as "liberators" of this town.  As the fundamentalists increase their strangle hold over the village, and the severity of the punishments they dole out, the village is ripped apart.Beautifully filmed, and considering the subject matter, there is very little bloody violence.  But the emotional impact, as portrayed by an absolutely superb cast, and riveting story telling, is very powerful.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Fascinating; heart wrenching
  

*by D***L on Reviewed in the United States on June 10, 2017*

There’s a lot of restraint and subtlety in director Abderrahmane Sissako’s tragic delineation of what it’s like to live under an ISIS takeover of a Muslim community. And there’s a beautiful artistry in the way he shows the barbarism of Sharia law so horrifically played out while the subjugation of women is made clear. (Actually the women in the movie stand strong against the subjugation.) Thus the evil of the “jihadists” (ISIS is never named but a black flag is flown) is contrasted with the normal lives of Muslim people.Sissako, who also wrote the script, is careful to make this distinction—a distinction that a good part of the world is currently working on. It is not Muslims who are bad; it is the extremists. Yet I could not help but think as I watched this with the incessant talk of God will’s, etc., that maybe, just maybe, the tribalism of religion itself is at fault. How horrible it is to live with the constant thought and expression that it is all God’s doing (with a little help from the forces of evil), and that we are just pawns in some absurd game played by a nearly omnipotent power that can send you to heaven or hell based on the very behaviors built into your psyche.Well, such would apply to most other religions as well I suppose. So an indictment of Islam is not appropriate. Nonetheless the intense religious climate of the movie was for me almost tyrannical. I felt so sad for all the poor ignorant people and again was reminded of the saying “willful ignorance is the only sin” and again told myself that the only way out of the morass of the Middle East is education leading to enlightenment.The film is in Arabic, French and a bit of English with English subtitles. A lot of what is said is not translated into the subtitles, but little is lost in the comprehension. There are scenes of great beauty contrasted with ugly violence. Beautiful music is played and sung, and there is a soccer game played without a ball. Such is the absurdity of life under the jihadists, who are really just thugs using a distorted vision of Islam in order to justify their crimes.  --Dennis Littrell, author of “Understanding Religion and Ourselves”

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