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.

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.

3. How does the film differ from the other films? Use the article from The Guardian to help you.

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.