Bada0Bing
Don't Stop Believin'
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Plot Summary
Genres: Crime, Drama
Tagline: In this world... redemption just comes once.
Plot Outline Six days in the violent life of a young Johannesburg gang leader (Chweneyagae).
Actors: Presley Chweneyagae, Terry Pheto, Kenneth Nkosi, Mothusi Magano, Zenzo Ngqobe
Directors: Gavin Hood
Editorial Reviews
From The New Yorker
In Gavin Hood's South African drama (an Oscar nominee for best foreign film), the nonactor Presley Chweneyagae plays Tsotsi, a hooded, toughened gang leader in a Johannesburg shantytown who kills for money and beats his friend for challenging his dignity. When Tsotsi shoots a woman for her car and finds that he has unwittingly absconded with her baby, he is struck with a dilemma: what to do with the baby? This would be interesting if Tsotsi's choice were not immediately clear. In a film depicting a seemingly lawless society, where women are decent and men are helpless or derelict without them, Tsotsi's painful attempts to care for an infant seem not revelatory but calculated. Curiously styled, with rap-video camera moves giving way to sensitive closeups, this reductive story of redemption milks the sentimentality, rather than the profundity, born of an extreme change of heart. In Zulu, Xhosa, and Afrikaans.
Copyright © 2006 The New Yorker
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I just watched it. The guy that played Tsotsi was actually really good for someone that had previously only performed in plays. I’m always blown away when I watch movies filmed in extremely poverty-stricken areas like Johannesburg. This one definitely deserved it’s Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film of the Year.
