Last week I saw the movie “Goodbye Bafana”. I would like to give my opinion about the film. The film follows you through 2 hour and 20 minutes with apartheid, South Africa, Nelson Mandela, and all the bad treatment the black people got from the whites. You will see detailed scenes filled with violence against the prisoners. It`s based on the book “Goodbye Bafana”. The author of the book is James Gregory, the prison guarder to Mandela.
We are in South Africa in the 1960s. The prison guarder James Gregory has got a new job in the prison on Robben Island. He got a very special job. He is going to be the prison guarder to Nelson Mandela, the leader of the ANC. Mr. Gregory isn’t very hard to the prisoners, he treat them like humans. His job is to see through letters to the prisoners and tell his boss what the letters are about. He speaks and read their language Xhosa, that’s why he got the job. Mr. Gregory follows Mr. Mandela through his prison time. He is the only guarder which the prisoners never have reported. He cares about them, and their culture. The film end happily.
The prison guarder James Gregory is played by Joseph Fiennes. His acting is very good after my opinion. He plays with his heart and the role fits him. His wife in the film, Gloria Gregory is played by Diane Kruger. She is a racist, and she shows that very clearly, but she change in the end of the film. I like all the actress/actresses in the film. They were good, and played really realistic, so you believed in the story they told.
I liked the movie very much. It was really touching, the film gave me an insight in how the apartheid time in South Africa was. The scene where the police jumped out of a car and hit the black people because they didn’t have any passport showed me how bad they were treated. I wonder why the white people didn’t understand that all the black people wanted were just freedom. They didn’t want a big war, they didn’t want the white people something bad. They just want freedom.
I didn’t think I learn some moral from the film that I didn’t have heard and learn before. But I think the theme or the moral in this film is “never give up something you are really fighting for”, or “The good will always win in the end”, there are many other themes/morals but these are someone I saw.
I will recommend this film to people who lived under the apartheid time, and people who will learn how it really was under apartheid. I will not recommend it to children under 14-15 who don’t know the background to the story. You understand more if you know some facts about the characters and the story. The MPAA rating of the movie: R. That means that the movie is restricted and children under 17 require accompanying parent or adult guardian. I think the film was really good!
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SHORT BIOGRAPHY:
Elise Dølemo is a girl at the age of 16. She comes from Norway. She goes on the school KKG, and she takes first year of Upper Secondary School. She likes to be with her friends and she likes watching movies. She works in a restaurant in “Sørlandets Travpark”. She also plays handball, and she likes horses. Actually she has her own horse. That’s was some facts about Elise.
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