Imba的意思是唱歌

“生命音乐”和非洲儿童合唱团都是基督教组织，在这部电影中，孩子们向耶稣祈祷和谈论为上帝表演的镜头相当多。如果你是基督徒，你可能会欢迎这样做，因为这有助于你孩子的成长。对其他人来说，我觉得你会想知道。此外，这部电影有点无聊，没有花任何时间来分享这些合唱团巡演的实际结果。钱都去哪儿了?这些孩子最终是如何受益的?电影的结尾是他们回到乌干达，这让我感到不安。这给我留下了很多疑问。

我和孩子们一起看Imba Means唱歌，希望他们能理解乌干达的孩子意味着什么。我希望有一个故事或情节能让我的孩子们感兴趣。也许是关于孩子们通过对音乐的热爱来克服多样性?但这不是这部电影的主题。以下是我的家人在观看这部电影时提出的一些问题…大约10分钟后，我9岁的孩子问我:为什么叫非洲儿童合唱团?这是一支乌干达儿童合唱团，但他们却被标榜为“非洲”儿童合唱团?说得好，孩子!非洲大陆有54个国家，乌干达只是其中之一。由于某些原因，在美国我们经常把人们称为非洲人，而不是他们的实际国籍。 Why is that? Why does this movie about Ugandan children reinforce that idea? . . Then both my kids wanted to know why Ugandan children had to pay to go to school, why wasn't school free in Uganda? That's an excellent question... but the movie never even bothered to answer it! It just made it seem like it was normal for children in Uganda to not be able to afford school. So our family resorted to Google to learn the answer. It turns out that contrary to what this documentary would have you believe, school in Uganda IS FREE!!!?? What is not free is the supplies and books and that is why kids drop out. So just like here in the US, education is considered a right. And there are kids in Uganda who can not only afford to go to school, they go to fancy private schools, just like here in the US. . . Watching this movie, my kids started to feel like everything in Uganda was poverty and sadness. I wondered if that was true, so we resorted to Google yet again and found out that Uganda is a country with amazing waterfalls, stunning mountains and deep cultural traditions. And that there are in fact wealthy Ugandans who send their kids to private schools just like here in the United States. What does the movie have to gain by selling the idea that all children in Uganda are poor and unhappy? That everything in the United States is better? . . And then we just got bored. There was no story here. Just the same things over and over. Ultimately we turned it off and watched Mad Hot Ballroom instead, which managed to keep my 9 and 5 year-old riveted. As far as we are concerned this movie makes some very uncomfortable assumptions about how American citizens should view people from Uganda and Africa in general that provoked some good questions but failed to answer them. And then it just was a poorly constructed story that failed to engage our interest.