Women Tae-Kwon-Do Oyee!

VP Kazibwe Would Sing Hurrah All The Way Home After Watching Enough
Film: Enough
Stars: Jennifer Lopez, Bill Campbell
Director: Michael Apted
Screenplay: Nicholas Kazan
Time 115 mins.
Rating: PG-13 for domestic violence
Showing at: Cine-plex Garden City
Preview by Kalungi Kabuye

VICE-PRESIDENT Specioza Wandira-Kazibwe is just going to love this film. Not because it is a great one, or that the acting is good, but because it is what she has been telling women with abusive husbands all along –– go and learn tae-kwon-do, and next time he tries anything, beat the stuffing out of him.
And that is what a waitress named Slim does in the film Enough, starting this Friday. Forget about the questionable plot, or the questions about whether Jennifer Lopez, who acts as Slim, can really act, hype and acclaimed derriere and all.
As the story goes, Slim is working in a small diner where a male customer tries to make her go out on a date with him. Another customer named Mitch (Billy Campbell) reveals that the other man was doing it to win a bet. In the film’s effort to get the story out of the way and let the action begin, Mitch and Slim are quickly wedded, buy a big house and have a cute daughter. That is when Slim discovers that Mitch is having affairs. His answer to the accusations? “I am, and will always be, a person who gets what he wants.”
The beatings begin, and Slim runs away.
Questions as to why Slim did not find out that Mitch was such a monster till three or four years into the marriage are just swept aside. She runs away and Mitch follows, a reversal of roles in the classic 1987 film, Fatal Attraction.
Trapped, with no where to go, Slim decides to take up martial arts, and waits for the chance to take revenge on Mitch. Nobody is going to slap her twice anymore and get away with it.
“There is a message in this film,” Lopez said in an interview. “It is a thriller, but there is definitely a message in there. I think it is empowering to anyone in a negative relationship. It does not matter how bad the situation is, you still have the power within yourself to change it or get out of it.”
Critics predictably tore the movie to pieces, but will their opinion matter to women in Uganda who have been slapped?’ These critics may just join a tae-kwon-do class after watching the film.Ends