Filmed in Cameroon, filmmaker Rosine Mbakam presents a neorealist approach on the life of the main character, Pierrette Abohe, and her struggles to care for her family in the poor and troubling environment. With good camerawork and sound designs, Abohe offers an emotional, slow-burn, but sensitive narrative of Abohe's struggles with interesting dynamics, atmosphere, and realistic dialogue and emotions explored within the character.
Using a docudrama approached, the style, sound designs, and character interactions felt real, touching, and depressing to observe as watching a mother trying to do her best despite the hardships was pretty emotional. The conflicts of the country, the environment, and struggles are well-explored throughout and focusing our main lead was interesting.
Some may call this misery porn but I disagree because misery porn would be considered a film that has a messaged that is forced or purposefully depressing to create shock value, rather then telling a message or so forth.
Overall, I really engaged with this movie.
