Timbuktu (Abderrahmane Sissako, 2014)

Synopsis(from IMDb):

Not far from the ancient Malian city of Timbuktu, proud cattle herder Kidane (Ibrahim Ahmed aka Pino) lives peacefully in the dunes with his wife Satima (Toulou Kiki), his daughter Toya (Layla Walet Mohamed), and Issan (Mehdi Ag Mohamed), their twelve-year-old shepherd. In town, the people suffer, powerless, from the regime of terror imposed by the Jihadists determined to control their faith. Music, laughter, cigarettes, even soccer have been banned. The women have become shadows but resist with dignity. Every day, the new improvised courts issue tragic and absurd sentences. Kidane and his family are being spared the chaos that prevails in Timbuktu. But their destiny changes abruptly.

Explain why Abdelrakim(Abdelkerim) dances alone.  (While the movie does not explain it directly there is some evidence to build different cases). Provide examples from the film to sustain your hypothesis.

Since, he is part of the jihadists, he has the freedom to do it even though others are not allow to do it. Abdelkerim is the character that introduced to us to tell that sometime even the jihadist cannot follow the law that they enforced. This is why people would not follow what they said because they themselves cannot do this. This is the importance of leading by example. They also forced them to follow the laws without explanation and demonstrating their utility which clearly not as prescribed by Allah and His prophet. The scene of him dancing alone is really dramatic scene since it shows us that people can be hypocrite by joining something for their own benefits and he chose to dance at Zabou’s place because he knows that place is safe for him to do that since Zabou also didn’t agree with the law enforced.