{"id":72234,"date":"2020-09-21T23:00:49","date_gmt":"2020-09-21T20:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/a-thrilling-ode-to-storytelling-film\/"},"modified":"2020-09-21T23:00:49","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T20:00:49","slug":"a-thrilling-ode-to-storytelling-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/a-thrilling-ode-to-storytelling-film\/","title":{"rendered":"#A Thrilling Ode to Storytelling \u2013 \/Film"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#A Thrilling Ode to Storytelling \u2013 \/Film<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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Champions of art love to pontificate about its importance, especially during times like a pandemic. But that rhetoric might ring a little hollow right now. However, it\u2019s not an exaggeration to say that humans as a species are hardwired for storytelling. There\u2019s science<\/a> to back up the capability to narrativize our experience as necessity, not merely a luxury. As innate as our impulses for violence and destruction is our drive to create and narrate.<\/p>\n

This becomes all too app<\/a>arent for the young man dubbed Roman (Kon\u00e9 Bakary) in Philippe Lac\u00f4te\u2019s Night of the Kings<\/em><\/strong>. Within the film, he must become a Scheherazade of the modern carceral state, spinning an engrossing and open-ended yarn to secure his own survival. Lac\u00f4te captures something special about the very nature of oral storytelling with his nested narratives. Roman\u2019s imaginative biography envelops and transforms the inmates around him, but the very act of telling the story out loud also changes himself.<\/p>\n

Like any movie in the genre, Night of the Kings<\/em> is as much about institutions as it is individuals and authority as it is autonomy. Though society often designates these enclosures as something separate from them, the way incarcerated individuals both reconfigure and redefine \u201corder\u201d often makes them a fascinating glance at the world around them. Prisoners both reflect and refract the social<\/a> structures that produce them. Ivorian prison MACA makes for an even purer illustration of this principle given that the inmates run the jail. The guards overseeing the complex exert only nominal power over what transpires within the walls.<\/p>\n

What plays out in the shadows of most prison movies comes out into the open in Night of the Kings<\/em>. The setting allows Lac\u00f4te not to waste much time in the film on the correctional officers, instead plunging the audience directly into MACA\u2019s well-defined ecosystem as Roman enters it himself. He trusts certain genre conventions are familiar enough to skip unnecessary exposition, and it pays off. Internal codes and laws, including those around ritual suicide, need little handholding to comprehend.<\/p>\n

The state of affairs become instantly clear: Roman steps directly into the crossfire between the prison\u2019s warring factions jockeying for power. As Blackbeard (Steve Tientcheu), the prison\u2019s chief known as the dangoro<\/em>, begins to succumb to illness, Roman\u2019s attempts to find stability and standing within MACA occur in its state of maximum volatility. Blackbeard, sensing the end of his reign, designates Roman to fulfill a custom of storytelling simply by laying eyes on him at the end of a hallway. Once selected, the center of gravity within Night of the Kings<\/em> irrevocably shifts. Only one thing can last until dawn: Roman\u2019s story or his life.<\/p>\n

Roman dives into the story of the fictional \u201cZama King,\u201d a character whose heroic rise and tragic fall intersects with reality and fantasy. This imagined figure both fights with a transfigured elephant and comes into his own following Ivory Coast\u2019s 2011 post-electoral crisis. It\u2019s not exactly consistent, but then again, what can one expect from a bard concocting his story in real time under intense duress?<\/p>\n

Oddly enough, the Zama King segments rank among the film\u2019s least effective despite being its most fantastical. The story constitutes a movie within a movie, and Lac\u00f4te\u2019s curious decision to largely omit Roman\u2019s voiceover from the very images he\u2019s conjuring makes the flights of fancy feel disconnected from the rest of the film. It\u2019s a testament to just how compelling the dynamics Lac\u00f4te presents inside MACA. Even the most absurd plotting by Roman cannot top the raw intrigue of the prison itself.
\nWhen the Zama King scenes feel too self-contained, they stop Night of the Kings<\/em> dead in its tracks. But when Lac\u00f4te intercuts them with the vibrant scenes forming around Roman\u2019s narration, which include prisoners forming spontaneous Greek choruses and interpretative dance sidebars, the film soars. (Lest anyone think inmates are an uncivilized bunch, they gleefully participate in the creative process \u2013 and they all know the Brazilian movie City of God<\/em>.)<\/p>\n

Night of the Kings<\/em> becomes most interesting when Lac\u00f4te zooms out to consider the wider impacts of Roman\u2019s storytelling. Yes, the tale of the Zama King matters immensely to him insofar as it impacts the duration of his existence. But weaving the narrative works on him in an emotional way as well. The story forces Roman to contemplate destiny \u2013 does he possess as much control over his own life as he does over the Zama King\u2019s?<\/p>\n

\/Film rating: 7 out of 10<\/strong><\/p>\n

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