Movie Reviews || The Woman King

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@radhi622, on this occasion I would like to review the latest film entitled the woman King. This film tells the story of a group of female warriors known as agojey during the 17th to 19th centuries. Agoji was assigned to protect the Daume kingdom in West Africa. What is the heroic story of these mighty women, let's finish the story.

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in 1823 in west Africa the dahome kingdom was at the stage of making an important decision the new king named gazo had to deal with his enemy namely the Oyo kingdom who had now allied with the Mahi people they attacked the dahome kingdom and sold captive slaves to the Europeans.

Agoji, an elite troop of female soldiers led by General Naniska, was present in the midst of hostilities between Oyo and Dahome, of course they sided with the former, determined to stop the slave trade that night.

General naniska brought the agoji troops to attack Mahi Village while at the same time freeing the slaves who were kidnapped from the Oyo kingdom. The abilities of the agoji troops cannot be underestimated because even though they are women,

but their abilities can match the strength of the men, the proof is that that night they managed to free all the slaves even though there were some agoji soldiers who also died in the battle, the attack was the beginning for king gejo from dahome to prepare for war against the kingdom of Oyo.

Because after all Mahi Village was a part of them they always turned to show the dahome kingdom. the paragoji who returned home with slave captives were greeted by the residents with pride that they were considered heroes because they had fought for the freedom of the slaves.

but that doesn't make General naniska satisfied because after this there will be a much bigger war ahead of them. in the village, a girl named Nawi is seen who is about to betrothed to a gentleman.

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Nawi of course refused, especially since the fathers were very rude to him. Because of this, his father decided to hand Nawi over to the Kingdom so that Nawi would learn how hard it was to live.

Nawi was greeted by a soldier named izogie and invited to enter the agojey area where the agoji soldiers lived together while protecting the king of gesu and also the kingdom of dahomei, after that the king summoned all the soldiers and his subordinates to discuss the problems between the kingdom of Dahome and wanted to first immediately prepare soldiers for war.

but this decision was opposed by General Migan because he felt that Daumi was still not strong enough to face Oyo, especially since Oyo currently has a much larger number of soldiers and is equipped with horses and weapons. the Generals finally argued about the King's decision.

some of them agree with migan that there will be no bloodshed if the slave trade can make peace for them then it is better to go that way dahome has many things that can be traded other than people for example gold or maybe palm oil.

the next day all new soldiers were trained directly by naniska izogie and amenza in the first training they were all asked to make weapons from ropes, in the middle of the training Nawi said that ropes are not weapons. soldier doll head,

in fact Nawi failed to carry out naniska's orders here naniska Trying to explain that everything cannot be learned instantly everything needs a process to get to that stage.

At first it all seemed very hard for Nawi but luckily there was an izogie who always strengthened Nawi and also supported him after going through some izogie training and a male soldier dueled before them.

as entertainment for the new soldiers They stood face to face with the double sided dagger and each one was in the chest, they slowly pushed each other because each push would make the dagger go deeper and deeper until finally the male warrior gave up because he couldn't bear the pain. roughly that's the standard for an agoji warrior he has to be tough and also brave. Realizing this, Nawi began to train harder. He secretly practiced alone because he wanted to prove his seriousness to Naniska and Isogi. The next day, the Oyo royal troops finally arrived in Dahome.

as usual, General Oba Adi, a representative from the kingdom of Oyo, came to buy some slaves as tribute, instead of preparing slaves, King Keizo instead prepared palm oil. General oba Adi also said that if the king refused their request then the Oyo kingdom would boycott the port they used as a trade route.

because both of them did not want to give in, the King of Gaza finally offered an agreement that they would send 20 agoji in return for the Dahome kingdom being able to continue using the port. showing the port of Oida at that time came white slave traders led by Santo ferreira and also Malik they arrived at the kingdom of Uyo to buy slaves.

there they could see slaves being tortured and also locked up like animals. Soon the agoji troops came to bring tribute. General Oba thought the tribute in question was the agoji members. but naniska instead presented the head of the Oyo royal soldier before General Oba once again.

Rajagezo openly waged war on the Oyo kingdom. This made General Oba angry and called all his soldiers instead of running away. Instead of running away, Naniska instead stood there and faced General Oba. Nawi, who saw this, tried to help Naniska so that when the opportunity arose, both of them fled to the sea. where the other agoji were waiting.

Nawi's actions did not make Naniska grateful or proud, instead she was angry at Nawi for not following the plan even though the person who didn't follow the plan was Naniska herself. But somehow he doesn't like anything Nawi does like this.

On the way to Dahome Nawi kingdom, Malik accidentally met Malik, who was taking a bath, and the two of them became acquainted. Malik told that he was actually half Dahome, his mother came from Dahome while his father was white. Soon Santo and Malik's group finally arrived in the Dahome kingdom, just like they had in the Oyo kingdom.

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there the two also intend to buy some slaves coinciding with their arrival the new warriors agoji will also take the final exam in the exam the new warriors will show their skills in front of the geizo king and seniors.

So, for anyone who fails, they will be sold to Santo and Malik. At the beginning of the exam, they are faced with a pile of sharp branches ready to cut their skin. Nawi became the first participant to escape, but instead he went back into the branch to help his friend who was trapped.

after that he also tried to catch up with the other participants in the right way from a height until finally Nawi succeeded and became the first winner in the exam. Nawi immediately received a gift from the king of Gejo in the form of a sword.

because all the participants had tried hard and Naniska decided that all of them would qualify to become members after the exam was over. the agoji members treated the new members who were injured in the middle of the treatment. naniska was surprised to see a scar on Nawi's shoulder, Nawi replied that his father called the wound a sign of the devil when he first found Nawi at the Orphanage. Nawi is an orphan.

Outside, Malik meets Nawi and invites him to meet tonight. It is clear that Malik is interested in Nawi. Unfortunately, Nawi cannot confirm Malik's invitation because he does not know whether he will be able to leave the palace tonight or not.

in the evening the members carry out the ceremony in the hope that the ancestors will bless the journey of the new members and they will always be looked after after the ceremony is over, Nawi comes out to meet Malik in that meeting Malik says that the oyo kingdom is planning to attack the kingdom.

Nawi then reported this to Nanieska, but Nanieska reprimanded her because she had committed a carelessness at that time. his suspicion by slashing a wound on Nawi's shoulder.

Unexpectedly, his suspicions were true because Nawi was his biological daughter. The next day, Naniska and the soldiers saw the tents of the Oyo troops who were already around the kingdom. This also made the agoji troops start preparing to attack Oyo. .

After all the preparations were finished, Naniska led agoji in the attack on Oyo, they burned the settlements of the Oyo troops with the gunpowder they had prepared, the war finally took place, many Oyo troops died in battle.

Nawi went to a cliff and knocked him unconscious. Meanwhile, General Naniska only targeted one person, who else if not General oba, unfortunately they didn't meet because Oba decided to withdraw all his troops. that way the agoji are certain to win in the war but this makes them unaware that several agoji have been kidnapped by the Oyo troops.

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on the way to the kingdom, Oyo Nawi woke up to see another agoji next to him. There was also Nawi's friend Humbe who was also arrested. Nawi saw that Humbe had a chance to escape. So he told Humbe to go and tell this to Naniska.

in the kingdom Oyo Nawi also met izogi he was surprised because at that time the izogi had a broken bone it was difficult for them to escape in that situation but Nawi tried to strengthen the izogi so they would not give up he then helped the izogi to straighten his arm bones. the king bestowed the title pojito on naniska for his success against the Oyo warriors.

They planned to hold a celebration party for this award but Naniska refused because she wanted to save the members who had been arrested back to the Oyo kingdom one by one agoji sold at a higher price than ordinary slaves. when it was izogi and Nawi's turn to be sold they made an attempt to escape.

But unfortunately they failed until finally izogi was killed. izogie's death made Nawi feel very guilty. However, isogi was killed because Nawi was too slow. After that, Malik bought Nawi to protect him.

At night naniska defied the king's orders and set out with a group of soldiers to rescue the captives. This once again caused war between the agoji against the Oyo warriors and the Europeans.

Nawi, who saw this, ran away and joined Naniska when Santo tried to escape with Malik's captives, freed the slaves and killed Santo. On the other hand, Naniska also returned to face Oba.

because he managed to kill oba with his own hands agoji who won returned to dahomi with pride because they had succeeded in controlling the kingdom of Oyo. there They were greeted directly by the king of gejo. He reprimanded him for crying a little for not obeying his orders, but after that he crowned naniska as the woman King. This film ends by showing Naniska and Nawi, who have now acknowledged their blood relationship.

all the agoji Then celebrate naniska's appointment and the film is finally over.

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