The Terrors of Life Under Islamism

The Terrors of Life Under Islamism

Abderrahmane Sissako's sad, handsome film is a response, a supplement, and a protest to the horrors that flash by on the news. For many in West Africa, Islamist extremism is not a sudden, explosive intrusion, but an everyday, almost monotonous burden. Sissako's film confronts this mundane evil on its own terms, with exacting patience and terrible beauty. It discovers the political outrage and dissent inherent in daily life under draconian rule, unearthing a natural argument for resistance rather than forcing a foreign agenda.

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