Hyenas: African film critique

This was a great African film filled with valuable lessons about life. In a way this film reminded me of the people of Ibo Landing, life was simple and they didn’t have much yet they seemed happy. the desire of wanting more was present even though they had every thing they needed which was food, clothes and shelter. In the system of things we are constantly bombarded with things that we don’t need and the powers that be refer to us as consumers. Market strategist study our behaviors with goal of arousing our desires. In the case of  Dramah Drameh, I would say that he chose the wrong woman to marry, he had already started a family with linguere ramatou but he chose to marry the other woman because she had money. According to ramatou her faith was sealed when she became a mother without a husband and she was labeled a whore by society, this is a harsh consequence of the current patriarchy we live in and how it manifests itself in different cultures around the world. drameh was the richest man in town and he was on top the world, he had the only shop in town which gave him a a sense of purpose and ranking in the world.  Ramatou made a grand entrance and her presence was felt as soon as she stepped off the train, A donation to the lonely women fund she said, the satirical way in which she exposed the colobane village for not having resources for lonely women was a  righteous judgement on the village.  the post colonial surrealism was comedic in many instances, for example the yellow shoes for an underfunded police department, fans and refrigerators, and a whole amusement park. I thought to myself where did they get electricity from, maybe they had some generators? the hierarchy that drameh enjoyed would be short-lived when ramatou offered to buy the court in exchange for a hundred thousand million dollar donation, if such a dollar amount existed. this was a classic way to show the citizens of colobane that their values could be bought. drameh’s faith was sealed, he became an old lion to be hunted by the hungry hyenas of his village in which he scolded at times for not having money to pay off their debts.  Ramatou enjoyed her day to day revenge on the patraichy that shunned her, so justice was served. what shook me the most was the scene in which Ramatou showed drameh the island in which she said she would take him so he could be hers forever. drameh said that he would be dead and she told him to die in peace and come join her, she was dead already. that scene was chilling and it made it seem like even in death she was going to torture him perpetually. it reminded of a scripture in the book of Ecclesiasticus 25:13 that says give me any plague but the plague of the heart and any wickedness but the wickedness of a woman. But was it wickedness or was it Justice?