This festival circuit favourite was an early cinema-release casualty of the pandemic lockdown, telling the tale of a young South African's experience of compulsory miltary service during the time of Apartheid. As the film tackles a big shopping list of issues such as toxic masculinity, racism, homophobia and bullying, it is always sincere but occasionally uneven, often brutal and confrontational but sometimes twee and predictable. Kai Luke Brummer does well in his debut central role in a film that perhaps serves best as capturing the attitudes and experiences of the time in which it is set rather than revealing anything new.
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