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]     Wednesday, February 19th, 2014     4:50 pm     Aquel no
era yo     [No real spoilers here—it looks like I'm telling the
ending, but the ending is shown in flashforwards right at the
beginning.]      I went to a showing of the Oscar-nominated
short live-action fiction films at the ICA over the weekend.
"Aquel no era yo (That wasn't Me)" seems a shoe-in for the
Oscar, 'cause it seems like it was taken directly from the "How
to Win an Oscar" guidebook. A child soldier from Africa (no
country ever named, but, you know, Africa—one of those bad ones)
rehabilitated by The West after having been rescued by a
beautiful young do-gooder white woman. Chock full of harrowing
violence, focused mostly on the violence against the white
people, but socially relevant harrowing violence, so you can
feel virtuous for watching it, along