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Exploring The Theme Of Identity In The Film Moolade

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The Film Moolaadé is a film about a woman refusing to let her kids partake in the cutting tradition that involves elder woman cutting young girl’s vaginal region as a “right” of passage. This tradition doesn’t have any health benefits in fact the opposite is true, that this tradition has proven fatal consequences to some of the daughters of the women of the village. I think that one of the major themes that underlies this story is the concept of identity and what people are willing to do to protect and honor their take on identity within their village and for themselves. From the beginning of the film, the theme of identity became present to me however a scene later in the film is interesting to analyze in terms of what the film purpose was
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