Film review: The Bang Bang Club
1. In general, what did you like and dislike about the film? I would say that I like the way how everything is shown, very realistic and very raw. It makes you feel uncomfortable with what you are watching but in a good way. I think that filmmakers try to stick to reality. What I didn’t like from this film is the personalities of the characters. Sometimes the attitudes of these young men were kind of ridicule, in the way of how every young man is shown in films: brave, womanizer and “manly”. At times, I laughed a lot because of this. 2. How does the film make you think about your future role as journalists and film makers/producers/creators/directors? Watching this film, I realized how important is to show facts as news and to be the most loyal to this fact as you can. It was really impressive, at least to me, to see at the end of the film how the members of the Bang Bang Club were “sad” about the end of Apartheid, because it m...