'queen Of Katwe' Stirs Hope In Slum Where Film Was Born

"Queen of Katwe" follows the rise of Mutesi as a chess player amid grinding poverty, with her single mother barely able to support her and her two siblings. After Mutesi's brother is hit by a speeding motorcycle and hospitalized, the mother, played by Kenyan actress Lupita Nyong'o, stealthily pulls the boy from his hospital bed because she is not able to pay the bill. The film's pathos will be familiar to those who have lived in Katwe, where poverty drives young people to despair, if not violent crime. The film has received mostly favorable reviews in Uganda, where it premiered earlier this month at a red-carpet event in which Ugandans, many of whom had never acted before, shared the limelight with stars like Academy Award winner Nyong'o. Timothy Kalyegira, a prominent social critic in Uganda, drew widespread anger when he wrote online that "Queen of Katwe" is plagued by "lackluster acting by the Ugandans" and "the ineffective sequence of the scenes." "The biggest benefit from (Queen of Katwe) is that here is a film that puts forward a truly Ugandan story of hope, of discovery, of small people pulling themselves up by the bootstraps, taking on and conquering the world," said Daniel Kalinaki, a columnist with Uganda's Daily Monitor newspaper.

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