Movies: The Queen of Katwe.- Summary

This time I saw a movie with my daughter that seemed very interesting to share with them and with you, this is a movie about a girl from Kampala - Uganda who learns the art of chess, this has not been as promoted as the old movies of Disney, but you will be delighted to see it, because it shows life in the poor neighborhoods of Africa.

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This is a film about a girl named Phiona, she lives in Kampala, one of the poor neighborhoods in Africa, she has a very large family, besides being a young woman who sells corn on the streets, in order to survive, she is a girl who has to walk two hours to fetch water, who gets up every day at 5 in the morning seeing that his life has not changed, that it has been the same since he became aware, he has even lost hope of knowing a life different from this one.

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Every day she walks with her brother to sell in the market, but suddenly her brother runs away from her and she follows him. In the Katwe neighborhood all the boys get together to play a game, which they met through a teacher named Robert, who learns to play a piece on a board in August in which he is learning they give him a plate of food, Phiona goes to look for his oatmeal with milk and sits down to watch the games and learn, in this world the teacher will be her guide in this new discipline and who will accompany her throughout the young woman's adventure.

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The girl continues with her sales activities, but she would always spend some time learning a new game for herself, but little by little she was learning, she beat the boys who already had time learning this discipline, the teacher suggests that she can be a winner in chess, one night she asks her mother from the place where they live can something big come out.

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This movie is based on the real life of Phiona Mutesi, a young woman who lived in the Katwe neighborhood, an African girl with a very difficult life, whose father and sister died when she was just 3 years old, she had to abandon her studies, to sell maiz help her family, until one day everything changed, Phiona met a man, who taught chess to children, immediately this young woman was enchanted by the game, the young woman began to receive chess classes, her mentor Phiona's passion for the game of chess gave an account of her talent, despite being a country where women are classified as unable to do anything, this girl surpassed the stereotype.

This teacher decided to give him private lessons, very soon he began to participate, win local competitions, was able to finance his studies again, continued to triumph in international tournaments, he even had the opportunity to represent his country in the Chess Olympiads, in 2017 he made a trip to the United States, the Northwest University offered her a scholarship, Phiona accepted her to study sociology, she joined the university chess team, today this girl gives motivational talks, what she wants most is to help the young people of their community...

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• Faith, Values, discipline: They are great tools that we have within us, that if we use them in a good way we can be great successful people, it is like this movie showed us an 11-year-old girl who despite a life marginal gets ahead through a game called chess, where his whole world changes through his faith, courage and discipline.

• Dream and believe: Since we are children we always dream of being great, we ask children who want to be doctors, firefighters, characters who are their heroes, in this movie we see that this young woman begins her dream when she meets the teacher where she finds an opportunity, since she felt she was destined to live in a cul-de-sac, that she would never study again, that she would never be anything in life.

• Social condition is not an obstacle: We always see people who make excuses that they cannot get ahead because they are poor, because their social condition marked their lives, because their grandparents, parents were poor, so will be. Here we see a young African woman who changes her life despite being poor, denying and even being a woman, living in Africa, an obstacle that could see her let her continue to be poor. But she saw an opportunity that her destiny and that of her family would change, she even paid for her studies.

"A pawn can become a queen, but you have to fight for control of the squares and detect external threats."