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Lundi, septembre 6th, 2010 |
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It’s so great to finally see a major feature film that shows Africa from an African perspective, as opposed to through the prism of Western eyes. Another recent well-deserved Oscar winner (Best foreign language film) I just had to have in my collection; this is a violent and uncompromising look at life in a Soweto township.
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Presley Cheweneyagae plays the lead, a Johannesburg small-time gangster whose nickname Tsotsi means “thug”. I read somewhere that Presley was discovered playing Hamlet in a Soweto theatre group. He’s a find in a million, as his performance is mesmerising.
Tsotsi finds a baby in the back of a car he’s just jacked off a suburban black woman as the woman waited for the security gates outside her home to open. He doesn’t do the expected and simply dump the baby at the side of the road - surprisingly, he decides to take it home and care for it. He hasn’t a clue how to care for a child of course and he turns to a local woman who makes decorative mobiles from glass. She’s a nursing mother herself, and - under the threat of death, mind you - Tsotsi gets her to look after the child while he goes back out there to do his thing.
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It’s an interesting study of how complex life is for people who don’t have much and while the movie doesn’t make excuses or descend into sentimentality at any point, it’s engaging to gradually see the heart of the man called Tsotsi - a man who at first glance seemed utterly heartless - emerge for all to see. It’s a great story, based on the novel by South African playwright Athol Fugard, and the final scenes had me (literally) on the edge of my seat the first time I watched it. Gavin Hood makes good use of Johannesburg’s urban setting and the natural beauty of South Africa. I strongly recommend this movie. For anyone who might not know and who may have an interest, this is an authentic slice of African life.
Though “Tsotsi” is set in South Africa and the milieu, to the American eye, is as exotic as a film set on the Moon, the concerns are Universal: the loss or disconnect of ones parents, the longing for a parent’s love and caring, a governments lack of concern for a citizens civil rights.
Tsotsi (Presley Chweneygae) is a hood, a young man who kills and steals without any apparent concern for what he is doing and why he is doing it. His face and eyes radiate mostly hate and disdain. He is psychically and emotionally detached and removed. Then, one day he steals a luxury car, shoots the woman to whom it belongs and realizes, once he drives the car away, that there is an infant in the back seat.
This beautiful, innocent child forces Tsotsi ( really named David) to face the loss of his Mother, the uncaring, drunken non-concern of his father and the deep seated, mostly ignored or glossed , psychically ignored feelings with which he hasn’t been able to deal.
Director and screenwriter Gavin Hood (adapted from a novel by Athol Fugard) has fashioned a traditionally structured film and peopled it with non-traditional characters and it works because we can all relate to Tsotsi’s dilemma. And it doesn’t hurt to have Presley Chweneygae as your lead character. The first time we see Tsotsi on screen he looks at the camera with his huge black eyes: eyes that are filled with superiority, despair, disgust and hurt. When he first sees the infant his eyes and face fill with wonder and awe at the utter helplessness and innocence. It is this disparity and friction that makes the film crackle with fire and well observed life.
“Tsotsi” is not a revolutionary film like say the similarly themed “Children of God” but it is a very emotionally effective and socially aware one and Presley Chweneyagae’s performance is so natural and truthful that it makes you wince with recognition and empathy.
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