awesome
Saw this film a couple of years ago on IFC and put in a request to be notified whenever available on Dvd. This film is truly awesome and inspiring because it's a case of reality being stranger and more wonder full than fiction.
A documentary on Ugandan child soldier in the rebel army who later wins middle weight championship in America ....attains the American dream and a homesick journey back to Uganda. The meeting with his grand-mother is especially emotional and touching since she pieced him together after what the rebel army did to him. As a bonus America lets him speak his mind which gets very interesting with the Ugandan authorities..... Hint -one magical trick his. Ja-Ja taught him was to call him mommy too.
Its facinating that the aggression needed to be a top fighter can nevertheless operate alongside the need to atone for the acts of atrocity he was forced to perform as a boy soldier. It makes Kassim a man with a deep spectrum that is hard to...
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