Tsotsi (2005)
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pretty typical ‘gangster wakes up and gets morals’ movie. if i’d have known it starts with him getting a baby i probably wouldn’t have gone in the first place. any ‘man awkwardly changes diaper’ scene is walk-outable. not that i would, so maybe i should just say ‘tv-shut-offable’.
anyways, it was interesting seeing a little of the shanties in johannesburg, but is such a typical movie it doesn’t go anywhere with its setting or really uncover anything interesting or unexpected. and worse, glamorizes ghetto life with its score. it alternated between pieces of rap score (when they were going to rob someone or tsotsi was walking around looking tough) and the kind of songs you’d hear on some ‘world music’ cd of pretty sounding african singers over some strings. lion king kind of music. pretty annoying.
there was also a woman one row back that was annoying me. any sight of blood and she was audibly shocked and horrified and any sight of babies and she laughed.
preview for the devil and daniel johnston, so that was exciting. rolled my eyes a lot during the preview for hard candy. your kids are meeting weirdos on the internet! be scared! i guess there’s some twist though, so maybe the movie’s not as annoying as the preview.
