Comments on: Moffie Q&A: Director Oliver Hermanus https://www.mambaonline.com/2020/03/14/moffie-qa-director-oliver-hermanus/ South Africa's leading LGBTQ news and community platform Mon, 16 Mar 2020 09:49:35 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Bruce https://www.mambaonline.com/2020/03/14/moffie-qa-director-oliver-hermanus/#comment-1129546 Sat, 14 Mar 2020 13:31:01 +0000 https://www.mambaonline.com/?p=99314#comment-1129546 First of all thank you for the film. Brought back a lot of memories of that time.
A few thoughts around this.
1. I think this brings into highlight that not only black people stuffed under apartheid but the whole LGBTQI community. And we as a community and society as well should talk about our LGBTQI history and educate the youth.
2. The ending this can show how traumatic the national service was to the youth and how it effected them in their lives and how it changed them.
3 to me a very sore point here and not sure if people saw it this was and i saw it right away as i had a lot of friends who went through ward 22. Where they did untold hecticly bad things to the “Gay” people.
Is the ending not saying that the SANDF conversion therapy worked? Did he not have gay feelings and was GAY then go through ward 22 and come out “straight ” and now has NO gay tendencys?
4. To me and 99.9% of the older genaration when NOW called a Moffie we laugh it off and stand up to the people who said it. But my concern here is the youth who can’t handle it and have NO ways of reaching out for help. I think the producers are not helping out and have missed a great opportunity to reach out to the youth when they talk about the movie. They should or must have help lines and organizations names numbers at the ready and put it out there where the youth can get help or who they can talk to. In the movie you see a suicide but they have not gone that extra mile here to help. Would be great if they could and maybe save a life or more.

Lozi could you follow up and put this to them.

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