Immigration policy critics of late often seem to yearn for a nation in which everybody “talks American” and otherwise tries to conform as much as possible to a certain mainstream homogeneity, as if the goal of the melting pot society were to obliterate all original characteristics of its ingredients. Irked by others’ native tongues and ways, they seldom consider that assimilation isn’t easy — particularly the leaving-things-behind part.
The protagonist in “The Price” (which debuted on the festival circuit earlier this year as “Dara Ju”) is in many ways living the modern American Dream: He’s a young man from recent immigrant stock climbing up capitalism’s tallest ladder — the Manhattan financial sector. But the ascent seems to require he detach himself from the Nigerian emigre family whose needs he now finds embarrassing, and who won’t let him loose without a struggle.
Like that central figure, writer-director Anthony Onah is a Nigerian-born Harvard grad, and his accomplished...
The protagonist in “The Price” (which debuted on the festival circuit earlier this year as “Dara Ju”) is in many ways living the modern American Dream: He’s a young man from recent immigrant stock climbing up capitalism’s tallest ladder — the Manhattan financial sector. But the ascent seems to require he detach himself from the Nigerian emigre family whose needs he now finds embarrassing, and who won’t let him loose without a struggle.
Like that central figure, writer-director Anthony Onah is a Nigerian-born Harvard grad, and his accomplished...
- 11/10/2017
- by Dennis Harvey
- Variety - Film News
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