{"id":50332,"date":"2011-05-13T21:08:44","date_gmt":"2011-05-14T04:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/?p=50332"},"modified":"2011-05-14T19:00:10","modified_gmt":"2011-05-15T02:00:10","slug":"the-first-grader-movie-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/2011\/05\/13\/the-first-grader-movie-review\/","title":{"rendered":"The First Grader Movie Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Title: The First Grader<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Director: Justin Chadwick<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Starring: Naomie Harris, Oliver Litondo, Tony Kgoroge, Nick Reding, Vusi Kunene, John Sibi-Okumu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>How will hardcore birthers (I&#8217;m looking in your direction Orly Taitz, though wincing to do so) read dark and sinister intent into the uplifting true story of The First Grader, given that it&#8217;s set in Kenya, contains the words &#8220;birth certificate&#8221; and even, in its closing, winkingly evokes the possibility of\u00a0someone like Barack Obama, whose ancestors call the country home, rising to the presidency\u00a0of the United States? Who knows, though I&#8217;m sure it may spawn a particularly warped conspiracy theory on some Internet message board somewhere. For the sane among us, however, the good news is that this solidly put together adult-education drama will be safely off the radars of most lunatic-fringe dwellers, arriving as it does in a low-key theatrical release from National Geographic Entertainment.<\/p>\n<p>Having suffered mightily under the brutal colonial rule of the British, witnessed his family being slaughtered, and becoming a Mau Mau freedom fighter in the 1950s, now-84-year-old Kimani N&#8217;gan&#8217;ga Maruge (Oliver Litondo) nonetheless stands unbowed, and ready to tackle a new challenge. With the newly elected government having promised a free education for all, Maruge shows up at the primary school in a small, remote village deep in the Kenyan bush. Though turned away at first, Maruge is desperate to learn to finally read, and collects the necessary items (pencil and paper, a proper uniform) that he believes will gain him admittance.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/the_first_grader.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/the_first_grader.jpg\" alt=\"The First Grader\" title=\"The First Grader\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-50372\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Moved in equal measure by his passion and stubbornness, teacher Jane Obinchu (Naomie Harris) finally relents, and allows Margue to join her already overcrowded first grade class. There, he studies numbers and letters alongside the wide-eyed six-year-olds before news of his enrollment spreads, upsetting local parents and others concerned with the precious allocation of limited resources. After being reprimanded by her superiors and forced to turn\u00a0Maruge away &#8212;\u00a0funneling him to an adult education class that is a much longer commute, costs money and doesn&#8217;t suit his needs &#8212; Jane concocts what she thinks is a smart compromise solution, drafting Maruge as her special teacher&#8217;s aide. Before long, however, even this\u00a0decision is deemed unacceptable.\u00a0Several locals\u00a0enact a\u00a0campaign of nasty harassment and Jane is threatened with a work transfer, moving Maruge to try to fight on her behalf.<\/p>\n<p>Working from a script by Emmy-winner Ann Peacock, director Justin Chadwick (The Other Boleyn Girl) intercuts the present day material with scenes showcasing Maruge&#8217;s detention camp mistreatment at the hands of both the British and, especially, their Kenyan loyalists. In doing so, the movie deftly captures the long-lingering shadows and ill effects of tribalism, when one&#8217;s ancestral sect is cause for modern day prejudice and distrust. Some of the parental disapproval is a bit less well delineated, in that it seems not ethnically based but more rooted in a strange, twisted desire to whitewash what is still relatively recent history.<\/p>\n<p>Still, The First Grader is chiefly a drama of heartening, make-do cooperation and uplift &#8212; a movie about not just the illumination of education, but the power to bestow dignity that it also possesses. Harris and Litondo each deliver engaging, full-bodied\u00a0performances, and Rob Hardy&#8217;s cinematography makes wonderful use of existent light and the natural Kenyan landscapes, creating a compelling physical tableau against which the human\u00a0drama can more realistically unfold. 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