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.