Movies like Captain America, Drive, and X-Men make millions and millions of dollars and are seen by millions, because Americans are apathetic to the true conditions of the Third World countries and want to be entertained by action and more action, more special effects. Life, Above All offers reality of the suffering that the majority of the people of the world go through in poverty and lack of education and healthcare, with many of them influenced still by witch doctors and fundamentalist Christians who come to them with just-as-bad fearful doctrines. In this story a woman contacts AIDS from her promiscuous husband, and she is accused of having demons by both groups. Her brave and intelligent 14-year-old daughter has to fight off the superstitious village members who are both part of the witch doctors' doctrines and the Christian fundamentalist doctrines. The emotions are heavy here, so be prepared. It won an award at the Cannes Festival. Sotho with English subtitles; Khomotso Manyaka, Keaobaka Makanyane, Lerato Mvelase, and Director Oliver Schmitz.
~Van of Urantia*MPAA = Motion Picture Association of America
*4DFR = An alternative, 4th-Dimensional, rating is supplied by the author of this review
