My wife and I saw the Academy Award winning foreign film Tsotsi (from South Africa) at the theater the other night.The movie is really good. Some of the reasons I enjoyed this Oscar winning foreign film:
- It wasn't trite
- I knew that the things I wanted to happen were were not realistic and the movie didn't give into those desires
- The story has a number of moments that communicate strongly with out any exchange of words at all
- It was filmed beautifully
- It spoke on so many important themes including the power of love and family over evil, as well as redemption.
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See: http://molarawood.blogspot.com/2006/03/how-tsotsi-was-born.html#links
I added a link to your blog at mine, to remind me to visit.
Good you liked this film - as I did too. I commented on the lack of white characters - and having seen a review on the BBC I think this was intentional to show that in the new South Africa not everything is about race - there is conflict too between the dispossessed of the townships & the relatively rich middle class blacks who have now acquired the wealth/lifestyle of their former white rulers.
Wow, we liked it for the same exact reasons. Tsotsi was THAT powerful!
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