Netflix’s <em>The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind</em> Is a Winner
Chiwetel Ejiofor’s film does an impressive job telling the real-life tale of an inventive Malawian teenager who saved his town from famine.
The title of , an inspirational true-story film based on a memoir by the Malawian engineer William Kamkwamba, is a bit of a spoiler. This isn’t exactly a complaint, but it’s useful to know going in. As a teenager, Kamkwamba built a wind turbine for his famine-stricken town in Malawi, helping to power small appliances and eventually irrigate crops. But though the film points toward that technological breakthrough, it spends much of its running time depicting its hero’s community and avoids many of
