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Movie Reviews of Bopha!
Movie Review: Provides interesting and often disturbing insight into this time period
Summary: 5 Stars
This film takes place in South Africa in 1980, in the midst of the Apartheid uprisings. It focuses on a particular African American family. Danny Glover plays the husband, a policeman, who is employed by the government. Unbeknownst to him, his teenage son starts to engage in anti-apartheid activities. It provides interesting and often disturbing insight into this time period, and how it affected the residents of South Africa.Movie Review: Terribly cruel but the bitter truth
Summary: 5 Stars
This film is like a documentary. It is the truth about a terribly viscious
period in South Africa. it ends with the cry 'Amandla' which means
'Courage' - there is a wonderful documentary called 'Amandla' which is
the next stage in the Apartheid history. Worth seeing! ( Dvd)
Movie Review: Bopha
Summary: 5 Stars
It's a wonder that the movie it self did not receive an Oscar nomination, but I'm not going to exspress my opinion why. Danny Glover's performance in this movie was awesome and probably his best. Truly a must see.Movie Review: What is civilization and where does it end?
Summary: 4 Stars
Today apartheid is a broken system, but to end it blood flowed in the streets... The blacks have spent many centuries as the prey
to both eastern and western predatory practices. The Moslim
slave traders were there before the Christians.
That the Dutch heritage settlers with their Afrikaans sought to hold onto
a "special" place above those whose land it really was
seems to show why movies like this were necessary.
Son against father and death stalking the township streets
makes this a movie that has impact even after the fact.
Danny Glover acts very well in this movie.
Movie Review: Bopha!
Summary: 3 Stars
I purchased this video prior to my trip to South Africa in order to learn more about the history of apartheid. The film focuses on the lives of a black policeman's family in contrast to the privileges of his white class bosses. It is a struggle between a father and son
You could say that it is the age old struggle between the older generation's acceptance of the status quo (the father)and accommodating their lives within the allowed social parameters and the idealism and impetus toward change of the younger generation (the son).
It also portrays a white middle class caught in a whirlwind of change, one it is not prepared to cope with. The prospect of not having a place to go outside South Africa is frighting, particularly to the women who have grown accustomed to a life of privilege. These scenes have been played in many former colonies where those of privilege feel abandoned by the mother country.
In the end, with the death of the father, the old generation cedes the way to the youth and their new ideas and demands for a free black Africa that no one can stop.
As a post script to the review, I toured Robbens Island, where Nelson Mandela and the other political prisoners where kept, and I spoke with a tour guide that had been imprisoned in the very same island with Mandela. He told me that his biggest regret is that the youth of today have no idea of their struggle or the interest in learning about it. Sounds familiar with the disinterest of our own youth in the American civil rights struggles.
I recommend the film as a historical aid.
Saludos, Rolando
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