My plane flight had Escape from Mogadishu: a review

[Periplus]

Okay so my flight had the movie and I watched it. Honestly, it’s objectively not bad.

1. The main plot of the movie is North and South Korea working together in dire circumstances. Somalia is merely the backdrop nor really important to the story.

2. They definitely had Somalis working in research for this movie. Everything from the spelling of Somali in posters, to the colour of the Xamar taxis was accurate. However, they did also fumble on some easy stuff.

3. The Kacaan is portrayed as a corrupt, violent regime and the USC as a popular-backed group that are out for revenge and to cause mayhem.

4. They have no Somalis in the casting and nearly all of them speak English in the classic West African accent. Many of the actors cast do use Somali phrases with passable pronounciation.

Honestly, it isn’t as damaging as people have portrayed it to be. It’s not great for our image but it’s similar to a lot of the African conflict movies put out in recent years.

 

[Apollo]

Damn, you are globetrotting in these corona times?

Honestly, it isn’t as damaging as people have portrayed it to be. It’s not great for our image but it’s similar to a lot of the African conflict movies put out in recent years.

Even if they used skinnies, still would be bad for our image. All major movies made about Somalis are on cliché topics like war and piracy. It is becoming tiresome really.

Still gave it 1/10 on IMDB without watching it.

 

[Keo]

It was damaging the moment they decided to make a movie about Somalia

 

[Dima&Damo]

I Shall Make A Movie About The Japanese Occupation Of Joseon

 

[Periplus]

Damn, you are globetrotting in these corona times?



Even if they used skinnies, still would be bad for our image. All major movies made about Somalis are on cliché topics like war and piracy. It is becoming tiresome really.

Still gave it 1/10 on IMDB without watching it.

Yeah, spent the entirety of 2022 overseas. Heading back to Australia tomorrow.

I agree it ain’t good for our image but people were acting like it was a Korean movie about the civil war when it wasn’t.

It ain’t the same as Black Hawk Down which was a movie about the civil war. This movie just happened to be set in this time period and location.

 

[Periplus]

@Apollo apparently it’s based on a true story which makes me a bit more sympathetic.

They didn’t deliberately make a film about Somalia. This story was a feel good true story about North and South Korea working together that happened to based during the civil war.

 

[TekNiKo]

How would Korea feel about Somalis making a movie of about how Japanese soldiers succesfully colonized there women and essentially made their women sex slaves? We should also use Japanese actors to boot, lets see if they feel 'its no big deal.'

 

[Periplus]

How would Korea feel about Somalis making a movie of about how Japanese soldiers succesfully colonized there women and essentially made their women sex slaves? We should also use Japanese actors to boot, lets see if they feel 'its no big deal.'

Tbh their movie is based on the true story of Koreans in Xamar in 1991. Unless there were Somalis in Japanese Korea in the 1940s, I don’t think it’s an apt comparison.

 

[TekNiKo]

Tbh their movie is based on the true story of Koreans in Xamar in 1991. Unless there were Somalis in Japanese Korea in the 1940s, I don’t think it’s an apt comparison.

I watched the movie, they replaced us with ad nauseous Bantu NPCs instead of atleast employing Somalis for the position. This is why I respect American soft power more, Captain Phillips was the perfect example, atleast they are feeding Somali actors bellies and not Bantus.