High Fantasy

Less than six minutes into , four teenagers on a road trip to a farm on South Africa’s Northern Cape—where they intend to camp under the stars and potentially smoke some half-decent marijuana—are sharing their emotional responses to the surrounding scenery, direct to camera. Training her cell phone camera on the car’s other passengers, the provocative Xoli (Qondiswa James) asks how “the land” makes each person “feel”—a neat, bitchy way to draw attention to the fact that their white friend Lexi’s (Francesca Varrie Michel) family “stole” their farm from its indigenous owners. Apparently oblivious to Xoli’s insinuation, Lexi says the land makes her feel “trapped;” for sensitive biracial