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- REVIEW: ‘MOFFIE’ ADROLY PICTS A GAY MAN’S LIFE THE APARTHEID-ERA SOUTH AIN ARMY
- DIE STROPERS IS THE LATT SOUTH AIN GAY THEMED FILM HEADG TO CEMAS
REVIEW: ‘MOFFIE’ ADROLY PICTS A GAY MAN’S LIFE THE APARTHEID-ERA SOUTH AIN ARMY
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DIE STROPERS IS THE LATT SOUTH AIN GAY THEMED FILM HEADG TO CEMAS
Many, however, believe the attempt to censor Inxeba was for another reason: homophobia – thanks to the film’s pictn of same-sex love a eply patriarchal and exclively mascule enclave. Apartheid South Ai was expert at churng out hate s lg whe mory, and if one happened to be gay — then a leral crime — the loathg was ndned to turn ward, too, like a self-throttlg. Key to the sanctned barbarism that fed the regime was s nscriptg of young whe mal to their ongog borr wars, a btalizg passage to toxic hetero-manhood picted wh prsurized sensivy and artful dread Oliver Herman’ pellg dramatic feature “Moffie, ” named for the Aikaans homophobic slur that followed anyone perceived as sufficiently story, adapted om a memoir-like novel by André Carl van r Merwe, is set 1981, when fair-haired, soft-featured teenager Nicholas Van r Swart (Kai Le Bmmer) is about to start two years of pulsory ary service the South Ain Defense Force, feedg a mpaign at the northern borr (what is now pennt Namibia) shootg at USSR-backed Angolans.