“Difret” is a movie about a young, 14 year old girl, who was kidnapped on her way home from school one day. Her name was Hirut and seemed very quite. She had just received a note from the teacher saying she could move on to the 5th grade. Unfortunate for her, it wasn’t a good day. She got kidnapped by a man that wants to marry her against her will. When she escapes, she shoots and kills her soon to be husband, and that’s where it all started. She was being accused for murder, and was prisoned in jail for life.
But then a lady, named Meaza ashenafi, comes to her rescue and tries to get her a trial and tells them that she should be charged for self-defense not murder. Because in Ethiopia it was common for man to abduct their wives, her self-defense argument was being ignored, and most of the village wanted to kill Hirut. Throughout the whole movie Hirut was struggling, but at the end Hirut won, with the help of Meaza. It was a great movie, but sometimes hard to understand what they were actually saying because it wasn’t in English. The movie is most likely set in Africa, because it seemed real.
In my opinion the ending didn’t make any sense. Why did Hirut just walk away? Where is she going to go’she doesn’t have a place to live, and neither can she go back to her village to her family. She says good-bye to Meaza, but she was the only lady that would have been able to take care of her. She doesn’t have anywhere to be, neither does she have something remaining to do. There are moments where it was silent when it wasn’t needed. The acting of the actors was good for the most part but sometimes the back up actors don’t seem to like what their doing, for example the police officer that always salutes to the chief.
It seems like he is being forced to act. Otherwise the movie looked professionally made and not cheap. This movie also gives you the feeling of how lucky a person is to live in other countries such as America. Movies like these make you think of what goes on in the rest of the world. After watching the movie, I felt so bad for the girls in AfricaDifret is a movie about a young, 14 year old girl, who got kidnapped on her way home from school one day. Her name was Hirut and seemed very quite. She had just received a note from the teacher saying she could move on to the 5th grade.
Unfortunate for her, it wasn’t a good day. She got kidnapped by a man that wants to marry her against her will. When she escapes, she shoots and kills her soon to be husband, and that’s where it all started. She was being accused for murder, and was prisoned in jail for life. But then a lady, named Meaza ashenafi, comes to her rescue and tries to get her a trial and tells them that she should be charged for self-defense not murder. Because in Ethiopia it was common for man to abduct their wives, her self-defense argument was being ignored, and most of the village wanted to kill Hirut.
Throughout the whole movie Hirut was struggling, but at the end Hirut won, with the help of Meaza. Difret is a movie about a young, 14 year old girl, who got kidnapped on her way home from school one day. Her name was Hirut and seemed very quite. She had just received a note from the teacher saying she could move on to the 5th grade. Unfortunate for her, it wasn’t a good day. She got kidnapped by a man that wants to marry her against her will. When she escapes, she shoots and kills her soon to be husband, and that’s where it all started.
She was being accused for murder, and was prisoned in jail for life. But then a lady, named Meaza ashenafi, comes to her rescue and tries to get her a trial and tells them that she should be charged for self-defense not murder. Because in Ethiopia it was common for man to abduct their wives, her self-defense argument was being ignored, and most of the village wanted to kill Hirut. Throughout the whole movie Hirut was struggling, but at the end Hirut won, with the help of Meaza. It was a great movie, but sometimes hard to understand what they were actually saying because it wasn’t in English.
The movie is most likely set in Africa, because it seemed real. In my opinion the ending didn’t make any sense. Why did Hirut just walk away? Where is she going to go’she doesn’t have a place to live, and neither can she go back to her village to her family. She says good-bye to Meaza, but she was the only lady that would have been able to take care of her. She doesn’t have anywhere to be, neither does she have something remaining to do. There are moments where it was silent when it wasn’t needed.
The acting of the actors was good for the most part but sometimes the back up actors don’t seem to like what their doing, for example the police officer that always salutes to the chief. It seems like he is being forced to act. Otherwise the movie looked professionally made and not cheap. This movie also gives you the feeling of how lucky a person is to live in other countries such as America. Movies like these make you think of what goes on in the rest of the world. After watching the movie, I felt so bad for the girls in Africa.
It was a great movie, but sometimes hard to understand what they were actually saying because it wasn’t in English. The movie is most likely set in Africa, because it seemed real. In my opinion the ending didn’t make any sense. Why did Hirut just walk away? Where is she going to go’she doesn’t have a place to live, and neither can she go back to her village to her family. She says good-bye to Meaza, but she was the only lady that would have been able to take care of her. She doesn’t have anywhere to be, neither does she have something remaining to do.
There are moments where it was silent when it wasn’t needed. The acting of the actors was good for the most part but sometimes the back up actors don’t seem to like what their doing, for example the police officer that always salutes to the chief. It seems like he is being forced to act. Otherwise the movie looked professionally made and not cheap. This movie also gives you the feeling of how lucky a person is to live in other countries such as America. Movies like these make you think of what goes on in the rest of the world. After watching the movie, I felt so bad for the girls in Africa.
