![]() He's coming to grips with his homosexuality in an environment that couldn't be more hostile to it. But the conflict that most concerns the movie, adapted from Andre Carl van der Merwe's autobiographical novel, is the one raging inside its 16-year-old protagonist, Nicholas. The story follows a group of these young men as they endure the rigors of basic training and are sent to fight communist forces from neighboring Angola. JUSTIN CHANG, BYLINE: The brutal and mesmerizing new film "Moffie" takes place in South Africa in 1981, when white teenage boys are conscripted to fight in the country's border wars. You can stream it now on many major platforms. ![]() ![]() Our film critic Justin Chang recently caught up with the new movie "Moffie," which tells the story of a white South African teenager hiding his sexuality as a young soldier under apartheid in the early 1980s.
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