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 meant that their job was over. As communicators, we
have to understand the importance of our role in society, to show the truth,
but not to take advantaged of some events that may affect other people.
3. In this film, and various of the other films, we have seen how black South Africans went to vote massively in April 1994 to seal the downfall of the apartheid system with the electoral triumph of Nelson Mandela and the ANC, now more than 20 years later, we see many of the problems originated during the apartheid are still present such as land inequality, class inequality, unemployment, etc.
How have the dreams from the anti-apartheid struggle played out since the ANC has been in power?
According to this class subjects and the films we watched, I may say Apartheid was a hard phase to the sudafrican people. Especially to the black people, which are Sudafrica’s biggest amount of population. Therefore, is sad that despite this phase ended most of the social injustice of the country, this is a persisting problem. Even when right now people in power has the same ideals that people in power In Apartheid’s phase. Unfortonately, white population are the country’s minority, and it’s the one that keeps their privileges based on deals made in apartheid. So it looks like sudafrincan people has improve their way of living in some ways, but hasn’t ponder apartheid’s events.
3. In this film, and various of the other films, we have seen how black South Africans went to vote massively in April 1994 to seal the downfall of the apartheid system with the electoral triumph of Nelson Mandela and the ANC, now more than 20 years later, we see many of the problems originated during the apartheid are still present such as land inequality, class inequality, unemployment, etc.
How have the dreams from the anti-apartheid struggle played out since the ANC has been in power?
According to this class subjects and the films we watched, I may say Apartheid was a hard phase to the sudafrican people. Especially to the black people, which are Sudafrica’s biggest amount of population. Therefore, is sad that despite this phase ended most of the social injustice of the country, this is a persisting problem. Even when right now people in power has the same ideals that people in power In Apartheid’s phase. Unfortonately, white population are the country’s minority, and it’s the one that keeps their privileges based on deals made in apartheid. So it looks like sudafrincan people has improve their way of living in some ways, but hasn’t ponder apartheid’s events.
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