First of all, it’s not nice to take pictures without sourcing them to the photographer. Which is doubly important because if you had you would have found the rest of Paul Wiggin’s photos of this sumatran tiger cub from the Chester Zoo and and used this one instead, which is objectively 10x better in every way
Lesbian film Rafiki has shattered box office records in Kenya – after a government ban was lifted for one week only.
The lesbian love story from director Wanuri Kahiu debuted to international acclaim at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, but the film was banned in its home country after state censors took exception to the “homosexual” themes.
Under Academy Awards rules, submissions to the Best Foreign Language
Film category “must be first released in the country submitting it… and
be first publicly exhibited for at least seven consecutive days in a
commercial motion picture theater.”
The film is now again banned in the country, following the end of the
seven-day exemption – but in a final humiliation for state media
censors, it was revealed that the film dominated the country’s box
office in the period it was released.
Rafiki was the top performing film in Kenya for the week it was unbanned, edging out major Hollywood blockbusters The Nun and Night School.
The film grossed more than $33,000 in its week of release, with more than 6,500 tickets sold.
The start of the film was greeted by raucous applause at screenings,
while the crowds “laughed and booed” at the logo of the Kenya Film
Classification Board—the body that suppressed its release.
The re-imposed ban makes it an offence to even own a copy of the film in the country.
here’s my hot take of the night: D.E.B.S would be an honest to god trash movie if it was straight. it would be so bad. but by the sheer fact that it’s a lesbian movie about a spy and a super villain falling in love and running away together it’s an incredible work of art and I would die for it
the scene when amy and lucy first run into each other, are holding each other at gun point, casually debate whether or not lucy should be arrested, then break the standoff to shake hands and make introductions? would have been terrible if it was straight. would have been dumb as hell. but lesbians being lesbians made it truly iconic, only lesbians would break off holding a criminal at gunpoint to shake her hand and eventually let her go because she’s really hot. amy? a lesbian icon
i wanna stress that i am DEAD serious about how bad it would have been specifically if it was straight… a straight couple could not pull off the perfect kind of dumb flirting and uselessness at being an evil super villain AND uselessness at being the poster child spy solely because you’re both incredibly gay and your “enemy” is a hot girl… straights WISH they could
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