CRY FREEDOM
Cry freedom is a British film directed and produced by
Richard Attenborough that shows the true of the apartheid and the real
situation of black people. Released in 1987, it is based in true facts written
in the book “Cry freedom” by Donald Woods.
This film tells the life of Steve Biko (performed by Denzel Washington), a black activist; and his friend Donald Woods (portrayed by Kevin
Kline), a liberal man and editor of the famous South African newspaper
“The daily despatch”. Together they are the voice of black ones and their aim
is to raise awareness of people so they fight for their rights. Suddenly, Biko
is killed and then Woods has to deal with the situation alone and go abroad so
that all the entire world could listen to Biko´s ideas.
After this story was released, a lot of thing changed.
Nowadays South Africa is democratic country where it doesn´t matter if you are
white or black, short or tall, thin or fat … and not only in South Africa. All
humanity had improved its thinking, but have we reached the real freedom or it
is like any other lie? Most people think that, unlike few countries, we live in
a completely free world where we can do everything we want and where we have
all facilities we need. My view is completely opposite. We have a long way to
achieve our purposes and aims. For example, there is still a male chauvinist
behaviour in our social life even in European countries and you can easily find
a case where an European and an Arabic with the same CV, doing the same job and
the first one earns more money than the second.
All in all, the world hasn´t already reached the real
freedom; however this situation is changing day after day.
