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Tsotsi [2006]
starring: Presley Chweneyagae, Mothusi Magano, Percy Matsemela, Terry Pheto, Jerry Mofokeng
directed by: Gavin Hood

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 1 to 3 weeks Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
Audience Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Binding: DVD
EAN: 5060116720495
Format: PAL
Label: Momentum Pictures Home Ent
Manufacturer: Momentum Pictures Home Ent
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Momentum Pictures Home Ent
Region Code: 2
Release Date: July 17, 2006
Running Time: 94 minutes
Studio: Momentum Pictures Home Ent
Theatrical Release Date: 2005
Sales Rank: 2507

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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

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- Life lessons
I don't usually take the time to review things as most people say it all in their reviews anyway, but I have to express my pure love for this film.

Not only did I cry from beginning to end, but I cried with every single emotion known to man: anger, sadness, annoyance, happiness, but above all things, HOPE. The events in this film may not be happening to you, but it's the lessons they teach that will inspire you to think more about how you perceive the world around you as it touches on morals and global issues without throwing them in your face.
Tsotsi as a character is entirely believable. Kudos to the actor who plays him; he allowed me to understand Tsotsi through actions alone.
Fantastic story, fantastic script, fantastic ... Read More:

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- Re-birth of a Rainbow Nation? (8/10)
Based on a novel by South African playwright Athol Fugard, Tsotsi a slickly-produced, powerful drama set in a giant township outside Johannesburg. Presley Chweneyagae stars as the eponymous Tsotsi, a baby-faced assassin forced into surrogate fatherhood by the baby he unwittingly kidnaps during a bungled car jacking. Protecting the baby thus forces Tsotsi to examine his behaviour in the light of his own lost childhood, darkened by the death of his mother to AIDS and an abusive father.

`Tsotsi' is an apocalyptic but highly stylised vision of township blight, all brewing storm clouds and hyper-real colours. Large, prominent AIDS/HIV posters feature in several shots, adding to a mood of impending catastrophe as ominously as the punctuating ... Read More:

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- SPECTACULAR!
I will keep this review brief as I believe that it doesn't take long to portray with words just how utterly brilliant this film really is. If you are the kind of person who likes to see a gripping story, lots of suspense and a sense of realism in your films, you need look no further. I believe a truly great film needs a real meaning and an important message. Tsotsi is about real life problems and illustrates typical life standards in the poor areas of Johannesburg. The film is easy to follow despite the need of sub titles and I personally believe that it is one film which had I not watched it (without sounding corny), my life wouldn't be the same today.

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- Finding hope in desperate life of a young South African
Tsotsi is ultimately an uplifting film set in the brutal and hopeless world of a young man (Tsotsi) living in a shanty town outside Johannesburg.
Tsotsi is a scary character, callous and violent. He survives on the profit of crime and in the pursuit of one nights work an unlikely person gets entangled in his life. In his own distorted way Tsotsi has found someone to love and someone who is fully dependent on him for survival. A survival which seems precarious and adds to the tension of the film.
The film is I believe a story of the search for love and how in starting to care for another, one's life can be transformed. Tsotsi's life seems hopeless but hope and redemption seem a possibility for him as his conscience gradually awakens and ... Read More:

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- Worthy Oscar Winner-for a change
I won't give you a plot summary as several reviewers have done so and Amazons review gives you the plot (why spoil it?).

Yes it's 'world cinema' yes it has subtitles and yes it's a very good film.
At several points in the movie you wonder which way our lead Tsotsi/thug will turn and you begin to sympathise with someone who is not at all pleasant, it's skilful filmaking. What is presented partly in flashback is how this person came to be, their struggle with feelings from their past impacting on the choices they make.

The dvd extras are also worth exploring, especially the short film by the same director and a 'day in the life of' showing the future for many people in the shantytowns, one trying to work out of it, the ... Read More:

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