"Tsotsi"

My CST teacher is giving us extra credit for watching a movie and writing a paper about it. She gave us a choice between four different movies, and I ended up picking one called “Tsotsi”. I just got done watching it, so I thought it would be a good one to blog about. Chances are you haven’t heard of it or don’t have any idea what is about because I didn’t either. Tsotsi is an extraordinary movie that portrays the gangster life in the hood of South Africa. The main character, who is known by Tsotsi which means thug or gangster, is the leader of a gang. His age is never mentioned for certain, but he looked to be a boy in his teens. Desperate for money and a sense of power, Tsotsi is willing to go to any lengths necessary to get money from people, even murder. The beginning introduces the characters and allows the audience to get an idea of their personalities, but the plot intensifies when Tsotsi shoots a woman in the process of stealing her car and then realizes that her baby is in it. Tsotsi, an orphan due to his mom dying of AIDS, is not a very loving or caring person. He decides to try and take care of the baby, however, and his character slowly grows as he faces taking care of a baby in the midst of the hood life. Overall, I thought it was an okay movie. I didn’t feel like it had a climax or anything, and it ends kind of strangely. It did a good job, however, at portraying the poverty and crime in South Africa.