“It must stop and it must not be screened in South Africa. “Women, who raise boys by themselves, they could get scared to send them. If our kids see this they won’t want to go to the mountains, but it’s our traditions,” said Nkosazana Bam, a member of the Congress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa. “The ritual should not be on screen, it’s a secret. Rather, they are incensed that details of the Ulwaluko are revealed, as only initiates are entitled to know them. Leading figures in the Xhosa community are careful not to criticise the gay storyline. It’s an environment where you learn your place among men and within your culture,” said Jay, who is himself Xhosa - like Nelson Mandela. “The Ulwaluko is a very sacred and very important ritual for Xhosa people, my people. The film also depicts the circumcision process and the often basic after-care given to initiates. “It’s an exploration of way more than just the ritual - or gayness - it’s an exploration of respectability politics, seniority, manhood, masculinity.” “It’s not simply this gay love story set in the mountain,” Jay told AFP in a Johannesburg cafe, wearing hair extensions and high-heels. Only the Brave will try to take its place on the short-but-distinguished list of memorable movies celebrating the courage of men who run into the fire while everyone else runs away.The plot twists when Kwanda discovers not just Xolani’s orientation but that he has a secret sexual relationship with a senior initiation leader who is a violent alcoholic - and a married father. Ron Howard famously brought a new level of realism to the cinematic depiction of firefighting with his 1991 movie Backdraft starring Kurt Russell, Robert De Niro and William Baldwin. Not to be outdone by The Duke, Steve McQueen played a firefighter battling a skyscraper blaze in the disaster movie staple The Towering Inferno.
John Wayne once-upon-a-time tackled the role of a super-macho oil well firefighter in the classic Hellfighters. Movies about manly firefighters represent a small and specific sub-genre of action-hero film. The feminine side of the story is represented by Jennifer Connolly and Andie MacDowell, who appear to fill the standard roles of the dutiful wives waiting and worrying at home while their men are out saving the town from being consumed by flames. If what you want is meat-and-potatoes masculine heroism served up with a minimum of fuss, Only the Brave looks like it will be the movie for you.
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