Film Review: Tsotsi
This is the best South African film in many years, and I believe that it fully deserves every award it has won, including the Oscar nomination which I hope it will win, the award for best film in a foreign language. Why? Simply because there is not one moment in this film which does not grip your insides like a hand squashing a bug. It really opens your eyes to the world of the rural areas here in South Africa.
This is certainly not one of those happy-clappy-i-love-barney type films, and if you want a laugh, don’t see this. Frankly, it is quite disturbing at times and sad at others. The more you hate a character the more you love the character, so I have learned when Tsotsi steals a car, and finds in the back seat a small baby.
He then takes the baby to live with him in his shack, but things go terribly wrong when he realises he does not know how to care for a baby. And if that is not enough, there is a sub plot continuing throughout the film about Tsotsi and his life as a gangster living on the edge of the law.
The movie is a great film to watch, but I suggest you sit at the back of the cinema when you watch this, because you really have to take in everything at once, including the subtitles.
So, I give this film a 9/10!
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