Too much propaganda
The beginning of this movie made it seem like it would be a nice romance about two lonely people finding each other. Yet the last half devolved into merely a propaganda movie. Now I'm torn about criticizing the movie since I do agree 100 percent with the message about funding Africa and eliminating extreme poverty. Yet I just don't think it worked in this movie. If the producers wanted to make a social message piece about the problem make a different movie. Don't try to wrap people into a romantic movie and then suddenly beat them over the head with your political views. I would have made a movie focussing on the main male character and not have any romance at all, just have him dealing with standing up to the leaders and showing his own courage. Or a movie about the two people having a romance, without any politics. Together though, they are uncomfortable and don't work at all.
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