Nasser Lebbadi Castro

Cry Freedom

-Movie Review

The film begins with the stories of Donald Woods, editor of the East London (South Africa) Daily Dispatch, and Steve Biko, a young black leader who has founded a school and a clinic for his people and continues to hold out hope that blacks and whites can work together to change South Africa. In the more naive days of the 1960s and 1970s, his politics are seen as "black supremecy," and Woods writes sanctimonious editorials describing Biko as a black racist. Through an emissary, Biko arranges to meet Woods. Eventually the two men become friends, and Woods sees black life in South Africa at first hand, something few white South Africans have done.

But in the movie there is a reflexion When I saw the movie, I really got touched by the story. This movie is showing us what happened in this country between the 1977 and 1979. When you realice that the movie is a true story, you get confuse and mind changed because this people were suffering just because they have a different colour. I think that the importance of those kind of movies is to learn about our mistakes. If we don’t change after making them, we are not evolving as humans. That means that things, that are happening in countries like Palestine or Afganistan, should not be happening now. In my opinion, the real story told in this movie should be an example for nowadays and the future.