The bang bang club (Review)

1. In general, what did you like and dislike about the film?

I know it sounds weird but I really liked the toughest parts, like when the protagonist took a photo of that burning man. When I watched that I was thinking about the ethical responsability that we have as journalist and film makers. What we can show to the world? Everything?.

I think until now this is my favorite movie. It was so intense, like all the brutality inside black population, and the job that journalists have to do.

2. How does the film make you think about your future role as journalists and film makers/producers/creators/directors?

As I said it before, through all the movie I was thinking about the ethical role that we play on media. Can we take a picture of a starving boy while a vulture is watching him, and do nothing about it? Are we more humans or more journalists? 

3. In this film, and various of the other films, we have seen how black South Africans went to vote massively in April 1994 to seal the downfall of the apartheid system with the electoral triumph of Nelson Mandela and the ANC, now more than 20 years later, we see many of the problems originated during the apartheid are still present such as land inequality, class inequality, unemployment, etc.

How have the dreams from the anti-apartheid struggle played out since the ANC has been in power?

Yeah really difficult one. I think that when you run a country you can't expect that all of your dreams come true. Per example it's difficult changing the whole global economic system, but you can do little changes inside your country, like increase company taxes.

South Africa has improved a lot of things, but they have to try harder on internal things, like land inequality or equal salaries between black and white people.