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Tsotsi (2006)
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"Christmas is a time of peace and harmony, where we remember baby Jesus, born into a manger. There were shepherds, wise men, sweet hay and swaddling clothes. But we often forget how dark the Christmas story actually is. First of all you’ve got poor Joseph, convinced that his fiance has been knocked up by another man. Then she gives birth in a barn, which would not be sweet or pleasant in any way. If that weren’t bad enough, the wise men tip Herod off to the fact that a new king has been born, and he goes and kills all the first born sons in Judea, forcing the Holy Family into exile. Real smooth, wise men, did you miss the star that told you to keep your mouths shut? There are plenty of movies about Christmas, a few about the nativity and plenty more about Santa. But there aren’t any that capture the despair and desperation of the original tale. Placed within the larger narrative of the Christian gospel, the nativity is about a god being subjected to the vulnerability of an infancy, ... "
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Tsotsi Can Melt a Hard Heart
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"Capping off the quartet of Africa message movies (starting with Blood Diamond, then the Last King of Scotland, then Hotel Rwanda), and overlapping a couplet of Oscar nominated (and/or winning) foreign films, the weekly red envelope brought me the Oscar-winning foreign language film from 2006, Tsotsi. It was the Oscar gold that put this movie on my radar, so without further adieu, allow me to discuss a la the Reel Thoughts tradition. Tsotsi is apparently a term for "thug" or "gangster," and, in this case, it's the nickname for a young man (Presley Chweneyagae) who leads a hard and violent life on the Johannesburg, South Africa, streets. This young man is so cold, so rough around the edges, that he and his small gang commit random and nightly acts of burglary and violence with nary a second thought - that is, until, the obviously pent up anger within Tsotsi leads him to pummel one of his gang members and, later, to shoot a young woman in an unthinking fit of fear and anger as he hi ... "
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"Danny Boyle’s new crowd-pleasing film Slumdog Millionaire was originally intended to be shot entirely in English, but apparently due to the preferences of a casting director, about a third of the movie is in Hindi. While this fraction may not be enough to call it a foreign-language film, it could have been enough to turn off subtitle-fearing audiences were the movie not so otherwise accessible due to its feel-good, “Hollywood-style” story involving star-crossed romance, destiny and an ultimate “love conquers all” message. Also, the movie breaks free from one off-putting foreign film tradition by following Man on Fire, Night Watch and TV’s Heroes into the realm of non-traditional subtitling. Slumdog received a standing ovation at the Toronto Film Festival, where it won the People’s Choice Awa "
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"Tsotsi (2005)Tsotsi (2006) is a good film, good enough, apparently, to win an Oscar for best foreign film. The acting is solid, the cinematography is solid, the sound track is effective and not overbearing, and a lot of scenes are refreshingly not predictable. The only major criticism people have had of this tale of a South African ghetto thug who accidentally steals a baby and turns his life around is that it is fakey, that the leader of a gang which has “progressed” to killing people would never go soft taking care of a baby. I wouldn’t know. Come to think of it, what would you have to know in order to declare this character change phoney? Well, you’d have to know a lot of young thugs, and know them over a long enough time to see what, if anything, changes their criminal behaviour. More specifically, you should know South African teenaged thugs and the culture they live in. I’m surprised that there are several professional movie critics in America wh ... "
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"***A Variety story published last night partially backs up the CHUD theory for why Fox pulled out of ComicCon--ie: they couldn't/didn't want to tone down their R-rated material after being reprimanded for showing racy Borat footage last year--but also suggests that the studio might have had to do a reality check on their presentation's "wow" factor. "The pics Fox wanted to promote are all f/x-intensive, with many of the money shots not yet complete." ***Why is it okay to consistently, pejoratively use words like "doughy" to describe Seth Rogan? Would a casting item about Renee Zellweger refer to her as "the bony, squinty-eyed thesp"? Whatever--the guy's gonna write and star in The Green Hornet. ***Gavin Hood, who won a Best Foreign Film Oscar two years ago for Tsotsi, has been hired to direct the X-men spin-off Wolverine. Variety describes the pic as an action-loaded "origin story about h "
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