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iNumber Number: Jozi Gold (2023)
Sep. 3rd, 2023 09:26 amIf you enjoy a good heist movie and have Netflix, I highly recommend iNumber Number: Jozi Gold**(directed by Donovan Marsh), a heist flick out of South Africa. It gives you a very entertaining foursquare of lawful/chaotic good/evil alignment, humor, fun characters, truly luminous cinematography in a most likely unfamiliar landscape (unless you're from South Africa). (Also violence, but less than in American films.) The protagonists are cop buddies Shoes (straight arrow, gentle family man) and Chili (has vigilante tendencies) who fail in the initial 15 minutes to take down the Hyena Man (bonus larger than life CG hyena) and so are sent down to The Basement by their corrupt boss--whereupon the rest of the plot, involving a Robin Hood gang, a 1972 mint sold for scrap, a dictator's son, that hyena, and an orphanage, unfolds.
( the foursquare )
I think the film must have been shot mainly at sunrise and sunset, because it's filled with a golden light that's perfect for a film about a gold heist.
And I was struck by its meditation on the weight--in all senses of the word--of gold. In the first chase scene, Chili is pursuing the Hyena man while lugging around a bag of gold nuggets. He finally leaves it with a guy in the poor neighborhood he's running through with the admonishment not to open it (!!) When he comes back...
( I used to be the best drill op )
Light, by contrast, has no weight, but transforms. As does fire.
But mainly the film's just propulsively fun, with a great sense of style and a good sound track. And you get to hear Zulu spoken.
What will you do with your one wild and precious krugerrand?
**Not to be confused with iNumber Number: Avenged, an earlier flick with the same main characters.
( the foursquare )
I think the film must have been shot mainly at sunrise and sunset, because it's filled with a golden light that's perfect for a film about a gold heist.
And I was struck by its meditation on the weight--in all senses of the word--of gold. In the first chase scene, Chili is pursuing the Hyena man while lugging around a bag of gold nuggets. He finally leaves it with a guy in the poor neighborhood he's running through with the admonishment not to open it (!!) When he comes back...
( I used to be the best drill op )
Light, by contrast, has no weight, but transforms. As does fire.
But mainly the film's just propulsively fun, with a great sense of style and a good sound track. And you get to hear Zulu spoken.
What will you do with your one wild and precious krugerrand?
**Not to be confused with iNumber Number: Avenged, an earlier flick with the same main characters.
