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Oh I’m SEATED! The original Director and writer for the now cancelled Blade film teamed up with Mahershala Ali to give us a different sword welding action film with emotional depth. I’m 1000% here for it!!!
I’m very adamant about not having people around who repeatedly disrupt my nervous system through their lack of care, empathy, and consideration. Get away from me.
The official trailer for Bassam Tariq’s ‘YOUR MOTHER YOUR MOTHER YOUR MOTHER’ has been released.
Starring two-time Academy Award winner Mahershala Ali.
In select theaters September 25, nationwide October.
In South Africa we have watched a quiet but relentless slide into lawlessness. Jumping traffic lights has become commonplace. Driving under the influence is often treated lightly. Pedestrians cross roads with little regard for the danger. Informal settlements spring up overnight on any open piece of land. Illegal electricity connections are no longer treated as serious offences - they are simply accepted as part of daily life. Informal traders claim pavements and intersections as their own. Prisoners somehow manage to keep smartphones. Driving without a licence is widespread.
One could go on forever. The point is simple: there has been a clear breakdown in law and order.
On the surface, the relaxation of rules is understandable. For decades, harsh and often humiliating laws targeted black South Africans in particular. So society swung from one extreme to the other, from rigid control to an “anything goes” environment.
In many ways this chaos is presented as freedom, the freedom that was denied to the majority for so long. We even open our borders to illegal immigration with the argument: “They took us in when we were running from the apartheid police.” A noble memory, but a problematic policy.
I once listened to a Minister of Correctional Services speaking about prisoners. The minister spoke much like a principal talking about learners, our collective duty to help them reach their full potential. The fact that some of these individuals were rapists, hardened killers and career criminals seemed to fade behind the focus on rehabilitation. We appear to have confused ordinary criminals with the political prisoners of the past. In our emphasis on ubuntu there is often little room left for the discipline that law and order require. It is as if, as a nation, we struggle to hold both compassion and consequences together.
This confused state is not progressive. It is setting us backwards. I know of no country that has ever become successful on a foundation of chaos. We urgently need to strike the right balance, one that honours our painful history without using it as a permanent excuse to abandon the very rules that keep a society from falling apart. #ProudlySA
I think Mahershala was deliberate with his word choice. He didn’t say “we didn’t get the right script/director/crew, etc.,” he said “they have billions of dollars, if they wanted to do the movie, we would've done the movie […] They didn't want to do it,”
New look at ‘YOUR MOTHER YOUR MOTHER YOUR MOTHER’, starring Mahershala Ali, Tramell Tillman and Giancarlo Esposito.
The film follows a religious hitman who struggles to balance work, faith & fatherhood.
In theaters on October 9.
From what I remember reading he also had to pass on several movies while waiting for Blade. He’s got every right to call Marvel & Kevin Feige out for this. And now with Wonder Man?! Very bad look on their part