‘Falling for Sahara’ is an Australian film directed by
Khoa Do that covers the lives of three refugees Beniam, Ramsy and MJ who are
all best friends that live in Flemington housing commission flats. They all
have a love for football and the new girl Sahara. During the film each of the
friends have an encounter with Sahara, first Beniam, then Ramsy and MJ who then
all fight over her and ruin their friendship.
The
film did not intrigue me as it isn’t a film I would watch out of interest. The
storyline didn’t catch my attention as it was boring and I didn’t see the point
in it. The good features in the film were that it had a lot of realism and most
of the situations would happen in real life.
The refugee’s lives weren’t fully explained but some parts gave us a bit
of information on the characters. For example Beniam and Ramsy were talking
about how MJ should tell Sahara about him being in a campus where he saw a lot
of dead bodies; this tells us that he has been in some bad situations in the
past.
The
main plot in the film is all the guys like Sahara and all try to fight for her
ruining their friendship in the process. Beniam says that Sahara is his because
he took her out to the club, Ramsy and MJ don’t agree with him but they don’t
say that she is theirs. MJ then starts falling in love with her, he asks his
friends that he lives with what should he do, they told him to tell her he
loves her but he never says it to her. But at the end she appears on the roof
with him, this situation wasn’t explained too well and no one knows how she
managed to come back to Australia.
Apart
from the films low budget, the structure of it fit in well with the characters
and the actors were decent and didn’t make the movie look that bad. I do not
know of anyone that I would recommend the movie to. Overall I would rate the
movie about 3.5 out of 10 as it is just watchable but not something I would
watch again or would have chosen to watch out of interest. But if you know of
anyone who likes movies that use similar concept to this one I would recommend
it to them.
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