It’s called The Bang Bang Club, and stars Ryan Phillippe, Taylor Kitsch & Malin Akerman, in a story about 4 white combat photographers who were active within the townships of South Africa under Apartheid, gaining international fame for capturing the violence of the period.
I haven’t seen it, so I can’t attest to its pros and/or cons; however, trailers for films like this (told from the Pov we’ll call broadly, the ol’ dominant white man’s gaze) almost always instinctively evoke feelings of loathing in me, even if based on real-life events. It’s rare to find a fictional feature film (not documentaries) on South Africa under apartheid that don’t include a white person’s narrative to counter or accompany whoever the lead black protagonist is, that aren’t centered solely on a white character’s experiences, or that are made specifically by, for and about black South Africans.
I haven’t seen it, so I can’t attest to its pros and/or cons; however, trailers for films like this (told from the Pov we’ll call broadly, the ol’ dominant white man’s gaze) almost always instinctively evoke feelings of loathing in me, even if based on real-life events. It’s rare to find a fictional feature film (not documentaries) on South Africa under apartheid that don’t include a white person’s narrative to counter or accompany whoever the lead black protagonist is, that aren’t centered solely on a white character’s experiences, or that are made specifically by, for and about black South Africans.
- 8/3/2010
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
If you live in New York City, and you’ve got some time to spare, between 4pm and 6Pm this afternoon, why not head on over to MoMA theatres to see Tia Lessin’s & Carl Deal’s Academy Award-nominated documentary, Trouble The Water (assuming you haven’t already seen it).
The powerful documentary won the Grand Jury Prize for Documentary at Sundance 2008, and was featured in New Directors/New Films in the same year.
The story goes… 2 weeks after Hurricane Katrina landed, New York filmmakers Lessin and Deal flew to Louisiana to make a film about soldiers returning from Iraq who had become homeless, but the National Guard refused the filmmakers access. Just when they were ready to disband their crew, Kim and Scott Roberts, streetwise and indomitable Nola residents, introduced themselves. Kim had bought a camcorder the day before the hurricane and, using it for the first time, captured...
The powerful documentary won the Grand Jury Prize for Documentary at Sundance 2008, and was featured in New Directors/New Films in the same year.
The story goes… 2 weeks after Hurricane Katrina landed, New York filmmakers Lessin and Deal flew to Louisiana to make a film about soldiers returning from Iraq who had become homeless, but the National Guard refused the filmmakers access. Just when they were ready to disband their crew, Kim and Scott Roberts, streetwise and indomitable Nola residents, introduced themselves. Kim had bought a camcorder the day before the hurricane and, using it for the first time, captured...
- 5/26/2010
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
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