1. Who was your favorite character (s) from the film? Why?
I think my favorite character from the film was the mother of the protagonist, she wanted to support and help her son, and also she fought against the gangs that wanted to kill Derrick. Dawn Thompson it was amazing for me, because she tried to be a good mother, maybe because she lost their other son, and tried to don't do the same mistakes with Derrick or maybe she was a real good mother, independet of the situation. For Dawn the politics was a stupid thing, and when she saw that Derrick start to understand that the society can’t be work with murders, the intimidation and the constant flow of blood, I think she felt good, like if in that moment his son opened their eyes for the first time.
And also I like the old enemy of Derrick called Gully rat, because he changed her vision of the reality, they converted in friends after to fight in the boxing gym. I suffered when Gully dies, because he salve Derrick and his family, when in the past he always said thathe hate the band who represented Derrick and his father.
2. How does the film compare to the other Jamaican films from the 70s? (Besides visual effects, think about the plot and character development).
I think in all the movies that we saw in the course represented the poverty, very similar to the “Favelas” in Brazil or the “Poblaciones Callampa” in Chile, because the cities appeared to made of garbage, and the constant presence of the parties or the gangs showed us a cruel reality, all the people live with fear and submission. Again all the population that we could saw in the film are very skinny, this a clear example to the shortage of the food, the police can’t control the gangs and murders, the robbs can change easily in a fight. So, I think all the representations that we could saw in the three movies of the course means that the drugs, the music, the politics, and basically the money moves the people, and control them.
3. How are women portrayed in this film? Is it a little or big advancement compared to the films from the 1970's?
I wishing to say that is a big advancement, because Dawn brokes the story and converts in a important character, but in entire movie the women is showed exactly like in the other films, for example, the daughter of the coach didn’t speak much, and the romance that she had with Derrick is very forced. Besides all the women associated with boxing are stereotypes, the society and the director sexualize them, and showed with little clothes, and obviously they don’t speak, they only walk and display their bodies. I really hate this, because it's not real.
viernes, 14 de diciembre de 2018
sábado, 1 de diciembre de 2018
The Pain Tree Short Story Review
1. Who is your favorite character from the story and what kind of background do they come from? Why? (Use examples from Michelle Cliff's essay, If I Could Write This in Fire, I Would Write This in Fire)
I think my favorite character could be Larissa, because the protagonist said good things about her, for example for her she was like her mother. But also Larrisa surprised me. I almost cried when she talked about the death of Larissa’s sons, this memory showed us a strong woman, but also a woman how really suffer, and the only option she had to leave the pain away was the Pain tree. I think is really important this woman. In first place, because she can personifies the social workers of that time, and in second place, because she represented a culture, for example: “Eh, where you come from, girl?”, this sentence is relationate with the context of th story, with the traditions, the legends, and the unequal society.
In the same line I also think the Michelle Cliff’s text presented us the same sexism to, the discrimination and the social strates, because always the woman is in a second place, and like a woman or a girl you only worry for been pretty and been nice with the people. When the protagonist remembered Larissa, her imagen always appereded like a shadow or like a hidden person, and it’s interesting how she focus in the dessaire of Larissa in have nice clothes, and how the protagonist remembered the girls of his age, the majority been pretties, and I think they was a little dumb.
2. Why do you think Lorraine’s mother mocks the workers that want independence from England?
I think maybe the figure of the Lorraine’s mother respond to a racism and petulance very notorious, because she thought that the workers that wanted the independence of England don’t been conscious about their jobs, because the society funcinate with the poor people and the richs. The world works in binaries, that’s means for Lorraine’s mother, that the independence it’s a waste of time, is like a bad joke, and she felt good with self because she was in the top of the social scale, she didn’t need have a job, but the other people needed it, and she was gonna be right there, waiting for new employes.
3. What is a “pain tree” and how does it play a role in the story?
I’m not sure if this story is ficcional, but I think the Pain Tree is representation and metaphor of the pain of the people, but not everybody, is place that the people who suffer can leave her pain in the nature, in a part of the earth, and after of that, you can move on, you still living, and maybe you feel good. This representation is really important for the story, because made a difference between the richs and poors, and this heavy, because Larissa said something very rough about this, like this means that only the poor people feel pain, and the only way to survive is leave the pain in this tree. If you are rich and you are sad o angry probably you buy something, but in the other side, they need to be strong because the life is unfair. The Pain Tree is an option to survive in the society.
4. What is the meaning of the line “people like me would always inherit the land, but they were the ones who already possessed the Earth”?
I think is a reflexion about the existence of the Pain Tree, and how the society works, because the people with money could have the material things, the material spaces and the social power, but the real things, the relation with the real people, with the earth, the environment, and the animals, that’s a bond that the other people don’t have, because they are use to have everything, money, clothes, food, but the real things, they can’t see them, and for they that doesn't matter.
I think my favorite character could be Larissa, because the protagonist said good things about her, for example for her she was like her mother. But also Larrisa surprised me. I almost cried when she talked about the death of Larissa’s sons, this memory showed us a strong woman, but also a woman how really suffer, and the only option she had to leave the pain away was the Pain tree. I think is really important this woman. In first place, because she can personifies the social workers of that time, and in second place, because she represented a culture, for example: “Eh, where you come from, girl?”, this sentence is relationate with the context of th story, with the traditions, the legends, and the unequal society.
In the same line I also think the Michelle Cliff’s text presented us the same sexism to, the discrimination and the social strates, because always the woman is in a second place, and like a woman or a girl you only worry for been pretty and been nice with the people. When the protagonist remembered Larissa, her imagen always appereded like a shadow or like a hidden person, and it’s interesting how she focus in the dessaire of Larissa in have nice clothes, and how the protagonist remembered the girls of his age, the majority been pretties, and I think they was a little dumb.
2. Why do you think Lorraine’s mother mocks the workers that want independence from England?
I think maybe the figure of the Lorraine’s mother respond to a racism and petulance very notorious, because she thought that the workers that wanted the independence of England don’t been conscious about their jobs, because the society funcinate with the poor people and the richs. The world works in binaries, that’s means for Lorraine’s mother, that the independence it’s a waste of time, is like a bad joke, and she felt good with self because she was in the top of the social scale, she didn’t need have a job, but the other people needed it, and she was gonna be right there, waiting for new employes.
3. What is a “pain tree” and how does it play a role in the story?
I’m not sure if this story is ficcional, but I think the Pain Tree is representation and metaphor of the pain of the people, but not everybody, is place that the people who suffer can leave her pain in the nature, in a part of the earth, and after of that, you can move on, you still living, and maybe you feel good. This representation is really important for the story, because made a difference between the richs and poors, and this heavy, because Larissa said something very rough about this, like this means that only the poor people feel pain, and the only way to survive is leave the pain in this tree. If you are rich and you are sad o angry probably you buy something, but in the other side, they need to be strong because the life is unfair. The Pain Tree is an option to survive in the society.
4. What is the meaning of the line “people like me would always inherit the land, but they were the ones who already possessed the Earth”?
I think is a reflexion about the existence of the Pain Tree, and how the society works, because the people with money could have the material things, the material spaces and the social power, but the real things, the relation with the real people, with the earth, the environment, and the animals, that’s a bond that the other people don’t have, because they are use to have everything, money, clothes, food, but the real things, they can’t see them, and for they that doesn't matter.
sábado, 10 de noviembre de 2018
Rockers Film Review
1. How does Leroy "Horsemouth" Wallace from Rockers compare to Ivan Martin from The Harder They Come?
I think “Horsemouth” is a character very interesting, is different to Ivan Martin, because I couldn't feel it like an arrogant person like Ivan, maybe Leroy was unworried all the time, but he was aware with the money, his job, and his family. However, they have one thing in common, and that is the possibility to showed to the jamaican society that they can live and win something in the social system. Maybe this characters are the representation of Robin Hood, specially “Horsemouth” because he stole the rich families in Jamaica, and gives the stuffs, for example, the domestic artefacts, to the poor people.
2. What is your favorite scene from the film? Why?
I think my favorite scene could be when the protagonist tried to stole the food of one of his friends, that one who has long hair, like rastas, a little bit fat, and who eats all day. When this is happened, the reaction of this man was so funny, because he almost tries to kill Horsemouth and other person only because they touched and stole his food. I also love food, so I can understand his reaction, also we have to understand that the food in that country and in that moment is very important, in fact, the majority of the population in the film is showed very skinny, and this is not minor.
3. Did you like/dislike the film? Why/Why Not?
Honestly, I didn’t like the film, I didn’t understand the story, and for solucionate this, I had to investigate about the movie, so, I don’t think that a good movie need a investigation for understand it. It happened exactly the same with They Harder They Come, I only liked the sound band, the music was a wise decision.
I think “Horsemouth” is a character very interesting, is different to Ivan Martin, because I couldn't feel it like an arrogant person like Ivan, maybe Leroy was unworried all the time, but he was aware with the money, his job, and his family. However, they have one thing in common, and that is the possibility to showed to the jamaican society that they can live and win something in the social system. Maybe this characters are the representation of Robin Hood, specially “Horsemouth” because he stole the rich families in Jamaica, and gives the stuffs, for example, the domestic artefacts, to the poor people.
2. What is your favorite scene from the film? Why?
I think my favorite scene could be when the protagonist tried to stole the food of one of his friends, that one who has long hair, like rastas, a little bit fat, and who eats all day. When this is happened, the reaction of this man was so funny, because he almost tries to kill Horsemouth and other person only because they touched and stole his food. I also love food, so I can understand his reaction, also we have to understand that the food in that country and in that moment is very important, in fact, the majority of the population in the film is showed very skinny, and this is not minor.
3. Did you like/dislike the film? Why/Why Not?
Honestly, I didn’t like the film, I didn’t understand the story, and for solucionate this, I had to investigate about the movie, so, I don’t think that a good movie need a investigation for understand it. It happened exactly the same with They Harder They Come, I only liked the sound band, the music was a wise decision.
domingo, 28 de octubre de 2018
The Harder They Come Film Review
1. In general, what did you like and dislike about the film?
I think the music or the sonored band was excellent, in fact I still remember the songs of the movie, specially the song of the protagonist, and I can’t stop to singing it. Maybe that’s the only thing that I liked about the film, because the story was very confused, the effects was weird, and the performances was bad, really bad.
2. Who is your favorite character from the film?
Maybe could be Elsa, the girlfriend of the protagonist because she tried to be happy all the time, and for that she fighted against her religion, her “father”, against the society and the police, because she was in love, and love it's everything.
3. Would you recommend this film to someone, why/why not?
Personally no, because, like I said, I don’t liked the movie so much, yes, the film showed the reality of the musical industry in Jamaica, and also the drugs market, but the story don’t evolutionate, is not different of something else, and the stetic was not interesting or atractive. So, I don’t recommend this movie to someone
I think the music or the sonored band was excellent, in fact I still remember the songs of the movie, specially the song of the protagonist, and I can’t stop to singing it. Maybe that’s the only thing that I liked about the film, because the story was very confused, the effects was weird, and the performances was bad, really bad.
2. Who is your favorite character from the film?
Maybe could be Elsa, the girlfriend of the protagonist because she tried to be happy all the time, and for that she fighted against her religion, her “father”, against the society and the police, because she was in love, and love it's everything.
3. Would you recommend this film to someone, why/why not?
Personally no, because, like I said, I don’t liked the movie so much, yes, the film showed the reality of the musical industry in Jamaica, and also the drugs market, but the story don’t evolutionate, is not different of something else, and the stetic was not interesting or atractive. So, I don’t recommend this movie to someone
viernes, 17 de agosto de 2018
Bang Bang Club
1. In general, what did you like and dislike about the film?
I think the only thing I liked about the film was the actor who interpreted Kevin Carter, because he is so handsome, but seriously, I don’t liked the movie, not because the direction or the photography are bad, because are good, but the story and the reality that envelop the storyline is awful, I can’t believe how the ethics influence the work of the people and their lives, and that made me think in the fragile of the life and the people.
2. How does the film make you think about your future role as journalists and film makers/producers/creators/directors?
I don’t know, I’m a journalist, and the film make think in the help that we can give to the people in a vulnerable situation, and I know what can I do when a person who I interviw starts to cry, and I feel the need to consolate her, but in the university tell us that like a journalist you have to be a objetive person, and that’s hard, and you can't consolate her, you only can watch or hear the things she or he says. Journalism is complicated.
3.- How have the dreams from the anti-apartheid struggle played out since the ANC has been in power? (Remember to use the article South Africa’s Coming Two-Party System)
I think the dreams from the anti-apartheid struggle played out since the ANC has been in power make come true in part, because is true, the new govermment abolish the old laws that perpetued de apartheid, the work distribution of the population, the access to the medical serves and the education, because before the ANC South Africa was a country where the african people was discriminate, repressed and killed for a small group, the “white people”, but after of the elections when the ANC won with Nelson Mandela the dreams of equality and peace not are to far away of our are reality.
viernes, 10 de agosto de 2018
Cry Freedom
1. Who was your favorite character from the film? Why?
I think my favorite character is Steve Biko, because he had a personality that make think in the the society of that time, and the actual world. I love the part of the movie when he answer a question of the judge: Why you call blacks to black people if their skin is not black, if their skin is brown?, and Biko said: Why you call you white, if your skin is pink? With this I try to evidence his personality was so clever, rebellious and a lit bite funny.
Also he had good valors and a vision of the society in South Africa where could exist the equality between the african people and the white man. His perspective of life was so positive and conciliatory, and that is very important for a person who suffered the injustices of a government that privileged one kind of person for over other.
2. What was your favorite scene from the film? Why?
Like I said, my favorite part of the film was the Biko’s trial, in that instance I feel in love of the struggle against to the apartheid, because in that scene we can saw the anger of the judicial power and the serenity of a man who fought for the right things that he think about of society. For a second the belief of the civilised and the wild be traded between the judge and Steve Biko.
Maybe this film differ from the other films because in this movie can saw the perspective and the protagonism of a journalist, who tried to make a book for tell the history and the fight of Steve Biko in the South African society. Also is interesting that Biko never was a member of the ANC, this can be a difference in relation with struggle against to the apartheid from an armed and organized group versus a group with not military tendencies, but having a social focus with the integration of the african people in South Africa.
domingo, 15 de julio de 2018
Kangamba
1. How does the film, Kangamba, show Cuban internationalism in Angola?
I think the film showed the Cuban internationalism in Angola not only in the armed struggle and the abolishment of the apartheid and their racisms governments, but also how Cuba given to Angola humanitarian help, for example, medical care for the citizens of this country, food and also the cuban’s soldiers made houses for the people. The relation between this two countries is good and strong in the movie as the history said.
2. What was the most impactful scene for you? Why?
Maybe the most impactful scene for me was the part when somebody of the Unita's army shoted against to a soldier of MPLA or the Cuban army, this caused to him the lost of their both eyes, that means he can’t see anymore, but to this man nothing matters except the liberation of Angola, and he continued fighting even when others soldiers said to him that he can’t manipulate a gun. That was shocked for me, because for him the pain and the fact to lose both eyes doesn't matter if they win against to the Unita’s army.
3. What was something you like and something you disliked about the film? Why?
I like the feeling of protect other no matter their nationality or the colour of their skin, I really like how the film showed the cuban’s army in Angola, because that was the intention of the director, demonstrate the union between countries in all the world, specially from the perspective of communism.
I know the movie wasn’t new or modern, but I not liked the special effects, in fact they made me laugh in the middle of the movie, and I think that wasn’t correct, because this is not a comedy, this is representation of a moment in history and it is very important for the struggle against to the apartheid and the racism.
domingo, 8 de julio de 2018
Catch a fire
1. In general, what did you like and dislike about the film?
Is complicated choose something that I liked or disliked, because I have mixed feelings. First of all I feel bad and sad after to saw the film, I think the torture and repression are things despicables, and in the movie this are very explicit, even cathartic. But in second place I really like this kind of visual resources, because help us to don’t forget this violation of human rights, and I know this can sound contradictory, but is necessary be explicit with this abuses, because when we recognize this things, we can do something to cure the wounds.
2. Who was the character you like the most and the character you liked the least in the film? Why?
Maybe this can sound bad, but I don’t like none of the characters of the film, because all of them failed in their social relations, for me is not enough had good intentions o want to free a society of the repression, is good, nobody deny that, but is not enough. Obviously I admire the characters who fight against to the apartheid and their practices. For other way, I do have a character who I really hate, he is Nic Vos, a police official responsible of the investigations associated with the ANC, or similar movements.
The way that he collected the information about this organization and the terrorist events relationated with the struggle against to the apartheid, was horrible, because their actions signify for Patrick Chamusso a big change in his life, because their torture and the torture of his wife generated a hate that with the time
he convert him in a member of the ANC.
3. What was the role of Samora Machel, the FRELIMO, and revolutionary Mozambique in the struggle against the South African apartheid? Use examples from the film and the biography of Samora Machel.
After of read the biography of Samora Machel, I think the role that had in the struggle against the South African apartheid was very important, because he converted thanks to the armed revolution in to person who really needed change the system and the society of Mozambique, but also in other countries where the apartheid and the repression of the African people were terrible, because for him the world needs to be equal and the people, no matter the color of their skin, needs to respect others.
I liked the sympathy between the armed group of Mozambique and the members of the ANC of South Africa, because in the movie showed in a way very nice, they maked me believe in those organizations and their union for destroid the apartheid.
I really felt that Machel was an extraordinary man, because I had helped other countries like South Africa and Rhodesia, and he never wanted anything for that. Also I think the evolution that he had had is very important to the armed struggle, because he started like a comun person in a social movement, in this case FREELIMO, that with time he have become the president of this group, and obtained the freedom of their countrie when he winn the presidency of Mozambique, I think this is a good example of how the revolution can change the life of the people.
Is complicated choose something that I liked or disliked, because I have mixed feelings. First of all I feel bad and sad after to saw the film, I think the torture and repression are things despicables, and in the movie this are very explicit, even cathartic. But in second place I really like this kind of visual resources, because help us to don’t forget this violation of human rights, and I know this can sound contradictory, but is necessary be explicit with this abuses, because when we recognize this things, we can do something to cure the wounds.
2. Who was the character you like the most and the character you liked the least in the film? Why?
Maybe this can sound bad, but I don’t like none of the characters of the film, because all of them failed in their social relations, for me is not enough had good intentions o want to free a society of the repression, is good, nobody deny that, but is not enough. Obviously I admire the characters who fight against to the apartheid and their practices. For other way, I do have a character who I really hate, he is Nic Vos, a police official responsible of the investigations associated with the ANC, or similar movements.
The way that he collected the information about this organization and the terrorist events relationated with the struggle against to the apartheid, was horrible, because their actions signify for Patrick Chamusso a big change in his life, because their torture and the torture of his wife generated a hate that with the time
he convert him in a member of the ANC.
3. What was the role of Samora Machel, the FRELIMO, and revolutionary Mozambique in the struggle against the South African apartheid? Use examples from the film and the biography of Samora Machel.
After of read the biography of Samora Machel, I think the role that had in the struggle against the South African apartheid was very important, because he converted thanks to the armed revolution in to person who really needed change the system and the society of Mozambique, but also in other countries where the apartheid and the repression of the African people were terrible, because for him the world needs to be equal and the people, no matter the color of their skin, needs to respect others.
I liked the sympathy between the armed group of Mozambique and the members of the ANC of South Africa, because in the movie showed in a way very nice, they maked me believe in those organizations and their union for destroid the apartheid.
I really felt that Machel was an extraordinary man, because I had helped other countries like South Africa and Rhodesia, and he never wanted anything for that. Also I think the evolution that he had had is very important to the armed struggle, because he started like a comun person in a social movement, in this case FREELIMO, that with time he have become the president of this group, and obtained the freedom of their countrie when he winn the presidency of Mozambique, I think this is a good example of how the revolution can change the life of the people.
viernes, 20 de abril de 2018
Goodbye Bafana
1. In general, what did you like and dislike about the film?
I like the history of Gregory, I think is very interesting how the director shows the guardian of Mandela, is like he tried to make more human the figure of this man. I don’t know if this story was real, but I ask myself why the director make a film not real?, specially if the Mandela figure is mentioned all the time.
To be honest, I don’t like the movie in general, the life of Gregory was so terrible, is very shocking how he lived and how their family was in danger only because he tried to treat a person like a human. Also is very confusing for me the relation between Nelson and Winnie, because in the last movie they relationship was so different, for example, they don’t touch and much less kiss each other, and in “Goodbye Bafana” they look like a normal couple, like the prison don’t make changes in their marriage.
2. Who was the character you liked the most and the character you liked the least in the film? Why?
I really hate Gregory’s wife, because in the beginning she was, and I sorry for my language, like a bitch, I can’t understand how exist people like her, who treats “black people” like garbage and she not even questioned that. When the movie is drawn on her character evolutioned, and I don’t believe in God, but THANKS GOD.
Another character who really hate was the fellow of Gregory in the office where they censored the letters for the prisoners, for people like him the world not evolucionate fast, for people like him the society perpetuate a system based in the superiority of small groups in relation with a big poblation.
Maybe I like the character of the Gregory’s daughter, because she questioned the laws, the violence and repression since she was a kid, and that means we don’t born hate someone else, we start hate when the society and her culture is imposed, and nobody cares what are the things to imply this, specially if you are a beneficiary.
3. How do the versions of James Gregory, Nelson Mandela, and Winnie Mandela compare between Goodbye Bafana and Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom?
“Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom” and “Goodbye Bafana” are two differents movies, because the figure of Mandela was different, in the sense of which are the personalities I could see, in the first film Nelson was a revolutionary, a politician, and a pacifist, in the latest film only I could see a man aislate of humanity, and maybe a few remains of their way of thinking about the armed struggle.
In relation with Winnie, I feel a little be disappointed, because I think she was very important to the struggle against to the apartheid, and I know this wasn’t about the struggle, but the figure of Winnie is showed only like the wife of Mandela and nothing else.
If I talk about Gregory I will say that I been impress with his life, I never thought that a guardian in South Africa knows the language of the african people, he was an example of multiculturalism, and obviously I feel so proud about the way he educate their son’s, because he tried to educated his family not like racist people, but on the contrary like normal people with differences but respect the other.
I like the history of Gregory, I think is very interesting how the director shows the guardian of Mandela, is like he tried to make more human the figure of this man. I don’t know if this story was real, but I ask myself why the director make a film not real?, specially if the Mandela figure is mentioned all the time.
To be honest, I don’t like the movie in general, the life of Gregory was so terrible, is very shocking how he lived and how their family was in danger only because he tried to treat a person like a human. Also is very confusing for me the relation between Nelson and Winnie, because in the last movie they relationship was so different, for example, they don’t touch and much less kiss each other, and in “Goodbye Bafana” they look like a normal couple, like the prison don’t make changes in their marriage.
2. Who was the character you liked the most and the character you liked the least in the film? Why?
I really hate Gregory’s wife, because in the beginning she was, and I sorry for my language, like a bitch, I can’t understand how exist people like her, who treats “black people” like garbage and she not even questioned that. When the movie is drawn on her character evolutioned, and I don’t believe in God, but THANKS GOD.
Another character who really hate was the fellow of Gregory in the office where they censored the letters for the prisoners, for people like him the world not evolucionate fast, for people like him the society perpetuate a system based in the superiority of small groups in relation with a big poblation.
Maybe I like the character of the Gregory’s daughter, because she questioned the laws, the violence and repression since she was a kid, and that means we don’t born hate someone else, we start hate when the society and her culture is imposed, and nobody cares what are the things to imply this, specially if you are a beneficiary.
3. How do the versions of James Gregory, Nelson Mandela, and Winnie Mandela compare between Goodbye Bafana and Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom?
“Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom” and “Goodbye Bafana” are two differents movies, because the figure of Mandela was different, in the sense of which are the personalities I could see, in the first film Nelson was a revolutionary, a politician, and a pacifist, in the latest film only I could see a man aislate of humanity, and maybe a few remains of their way of thinking about the armed struggle.
In relation with Winnie, I feel a little be disappointed, because I think she was very important to the struggle against to the apartheid, and I know this wasn’t about the struggle, but the figure of Winnie is showed only like the wife of Mandela and nothing else.
If I talk about Gregory I will say that I been impress with his life, I never thought that a guardian in South Africa knows the language of the african people, he was an example of multiculturalism, and obviously I feel so proud about the way he educate their son’s, because he tried to educated his family not like racist people, but on the contrary like normal people with differences but respect the other.
jueves, 12 de abril de 2018
Film Review of Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom:
1. In general, what did you like and dislike about the film?
The “Long Walk to Freedom” is an interesting movie, but not a good one, probably the thing I like about this is the possibility to show the injustices, the racism, the apartheid, and the struggle of South Africa. Is very important we don’t forget this conflict because the concept of race is wrong, the superiority of white people is not real, we are the same, obviously we have differences, but we can’t attack, humiliate, and hate a women or a man for their colour of skin.
By the way, I really dislike how the director of the film shows Mandela, I don’t know the situation of South Africa, and certainly I know a few things about Mandela. The movie show me two faces of Mandela, the first was I know, the Mandela like a pacifist and a revolutionary, and the second is the face of the politician, a man who manipulate the society to obtain the power. I think the figure of Mandela I has it’s was wrong, I feel dumb, because, like I say, I don’t know much about the apartheid, the struggle of South Africa and Mandela, I feel this movie open my eyes, but not in a good way.
2. In your own words, how would you compare the "various Mandelas;" the ones from the article and the one from the film?
I have to say the figure of Mandela for me, always had been the pacifist, an anti-violence man, and now, after to see the movie and read the article, I how Mandela had two personalities, I never thought this man, this kind man, will be, to the beginig a “terrorist” and after of that, after he went the prison, he became a symbol of a movement of freedom and equality for the races in South Africa. I know in general the revolutions start with the armed fight and a opposition against the system, because the system is a hegemony, and in this case between “white race” and “black race”, and also know in some occasions we don’t have another way to make visible the injuries, the unequal distribution of riches of the country, the fear, and the pain to be treat like an animal and not like a person with rights and feelings.
If I compare the Mandela of the movie and the Mandela of the article, I don’t see much difference, but evidently the function to this text permit understand the context of the ANC, the apartheid, the laws of South Africa, and the vulneration of many african people. In relation with the film, I think the director shows Mandela not to looking explicitly to this context, but he prefer the public see a man, a human, a person in love, angry, sad and nonconformist with the society that he lives.
3. What was the role that Winnie Mandela played in the film? Think about the contrast between her and the other ANC members.
It’s interesting the role of Winnie Mandela, first of all because she is a woman and is very important highlight this, because the revolutions always been by men and the figure of woman is forget. In second place I can saw in the movie she led the multitude and organize the confrontation with the police. I think the movie make a contrast between Winnie and Nelson, because she convert a symbol to the arm revolution and he transform in a symbol to the pacifist struggle.
4. How do you compare the role of Nelson Mandela and the African National Congress in the struggle against the apartheid and in the post-apartheid South Africa to the Concertación and their role in the struggle against Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship and in post-dictatorial Chile?
The role of Nelson Mandela and the ANC is very important to the struggle against the apartheid, because they are the movement that permit to the people wake up and do something for end the politics of the government. We need understand that this citizens have fear and feel insecure because the authorities repress with excessive and arbitrary violence any manifestation against to the penal system. That’s the reason why this party and this man are so famous and controversial in the struggle against apartheid.
In the post-apartheid South Africa the ANC and Mandela are essential to change the laws focus in the human rights and equality of races and promove a new economic system, but in this they can’t do so much for the unequal distribution of money in the country.
In relation with Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship and post-dictatorial Chile, we have to know before of the government of Nelson Mandela, the apartheid regimen has a good and strong relationship with Chile, because they share militar instruction for repress the people and they contraband militar army. After of the apartheid, this relationship is broke, and is very interesting how Mandela congratulate Chile in their politics for cure the wound cause of the previous government, in fact both countries have a comision for find the true about the violation of human rights call “Comisión de la Verdad y Reconciliación” and penalize these crimes.
Also is important the end the apartheid in South Africa and the dictatorship in Chile because both are regimens that promove repression, violence, hate and fear in the people. I think maybe are process very complicated but necessaries to return the power and freedom to the people and we still waiting the justice works in both cases.
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