‘Io Capitano’: Oscar Nominated Epic Depicts the Hellscape of Migration

Seydou Sarr and Moustapha decline I am the captain. Greta de Lazaris/Cohen Media Group

Nobody thinks that it is a good idea for teenage cousins ​​Sedau and warts to go on a trusted journey from his original Senegal to Europe. Sedau’s mother is very adamant against this that after the idea he proposes the idea, he tries to play it as he was just joking. When they share their plan with a local businessman, he angrily removes them out of his stall. Their long dead ancestors, contacted through a local mitigation, are the only ones who do not think that this is a mistake; Probably, he has not seen the news recently.

I captain ★★ 1/2 (2.5/4 starsDirected by: Written by Matio Garinav: Mato Garonstring: The best of Sedau Sir, Sedau Surringing Time: 121 minutes.

But Matio Goron uses his ambitions for a candidate for a candidate for the Napolitan gangster epic Gomorah and The Principal Mind Behind Eye Captain of the Bloody 2008, Napolitan Gangster Epperial Gomorah and The Principal Mind Behind Eye Captain? On the basis of atrocities he displays-a certainly with a fixed cinematic nature-it is possible to imagine that he shares the same immigration ideas with the majority of Prime Minister Georgia Meloni and Italians. At least before.

To help an immigrant ship with a corpse Laden Sahara with his stunning John Ford-like Vista and a huge Mediterranean Sea, to help overburdons, desperate and sick with sick North Africans, to live a succulent and memorial facility to live in the house near Garin-to live in a house.

Ultimately, unlike several asylum seekers, Sedau, Nawagantuk Sedau Sarr (last year’s Venice Film Festival was awarded the Best New Youth Actor Award, where Garone played the best director in the house) was not forced to play with an unbreakable and heart -breaking fate, the threat to death or starvation. He and the warts (fellow newcomer Mostfa Fall) live a vibrant life, which was set in the bright pink, greens and reds of daily life in Dakar. Yes, they want to send the money back to help their family, but their primary ambition in creating is meant to make music and eventually, as he said, “What white people ask for your autograph.”

The first half of the film discusses with the joy and enthusiasm of the cousin as they prepare for a adventure in their minds. But as anyone has seen Gomorah, all of that is also aware, no one cannot dissolve the hopes and dreams of young men in naive dust with more nature and efficiency than Geron.


Here this process begins when he is called in his money mud before going to the desert. While warts take advice and Sedau Damers, the idea that whatever option they make at this point can help in their position, it is considered almost a absurd joke. Since then, their life is converted into a bosch-like helkes. Sedau is tortured and sold in slavery and warts captured by Syrian thugs. During all this it is impossible between the official and the thugry, or even among those who intend to help the pair and those who want to exploit, harm or kill them.

Garin tried to lighten the impossible weight of all this with moments of magical realism. When a fellow refugee who tries to help to die in a significant sympathetic Sedau desert, he continues because she floats behind her like a kite. With the help of a bird similar to a bird, Sedau dreams that she fly back to her mother in Senegal, and is able to see her smile as she sleeps. But unlike similar moments in the 1983 Immigration Kriti The North of Gregory Nawa, these flights have been felt here, and the film is less grounded in thematic or narrative intentions of the film.

The saving grace of the film is the community that Sedau finds out with its frightening path, including a builder who takes Sedau under his wing and protects it from the edge of death and the remarkable Burkinbe actor is played by Sawago. When he reaches Tripoli, Sedau also detects tent cities of fellow Senegal refugees; Through them, he tries to re -connect with Vyas. Connection shared by cousins, and easy yet two actors express it deeply, it is clear and running.

As the film enters its last third, a harsh sequence in which Sedau is forced to captain a beailed-capacity refugee ship, despite knowing how to swim and never put a foot on the boat, you begin to surprise whether the attitude of the immigration should also be a matter of concern.

Last year, around 156 thousand migrants crossed the ocean to Italy, with more than 17,000 unacceptable minors such as Cedau and warts. While many people recognize it as a crisis worldwide, some of those persons got any help from the international community. Perhaps it matters less what we have to say about this human disaster, because we are interacting.

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