Mohamed Boukricha

    Merzouga is a small town , situated in the south of Morocco , with few people. Interesting views and landscapes and also a touristic place , a lot of people visit Merzouga because it's a relaxing and wonderfull place.

MERZOUGA

            Nine months ago, my friends and I travelled to Merzouga. We caught a train from the train station of Tangier. The trip lasted 5 days.

Merzouga is in the south of Morocco. It is a spectacular site. It is a desert. When we got to Merzouga, we had to rent a 4x4 car to pass a field and got to the resort. The resort was a luxury place with a beautiful swimming pool and a big restaurant. Every day we had was party at night.

We enjoyed the trip. Probably this year we are going to spend a good week again.

TAURUS

         I was born on 20th of May in 1997. My horoscope is Taurus.

The people whose horoscope is Taurus, is always calm. My favourite colour is the white and the blue. But people say that Taurus zodiac sign´s people favourite colour is the blue and the green. A Taurus lends to be practical, determined and have a stronge force.

Taureans are stable and conservative people. They do fitfully follow a leader in having confidence. They love peace and quiet and they are very respectful of the laws and rules. They have habit reluctant to change. They are more practical  than intellectual. They have a habit, my habit is play football and surf on the internet.

FILM REVIEW: “CRY FREEDOM”.

         The movie titled “Cry Freedom” is a british drama directed by Richard Attenborough (british director and producer). The movie was filmed in the late 1970s.

The movie treat about the South Africa´s movement called Apartheid.

The Apartheid consisted in the separation of the South Africa population by discriminatory treatment towards blacks reasons. During the movie, there is a person called Steve Biko. He represents the black society of people. He is brave and adventurous. He became leader four South Africans. But the black leader is dead at the hands of the white South African police (1970).

Personally, I liked the movie because it talks about important matter and South African event. And it is well know things about countries of our continent.

 

Movie Review: Cry Freedom Zaid Bousdar

Directed and produced by Richard Attenborough, and released in 1987 this inhuman and violent story about the Apartheid tells how black people suffered from this wild and irrational politic and economic system.

The story is about a journalist and an editor called Donald Woods who is against the Apartheid and his black friend Steve Biko who was an anti-Apartheid activist. Both people tried to stop the Apartheid.

This movie is based on true events. When Biko first appears in the film, he has already been "banned" by the South African government. "Banning" meant he was not allowed to be in the same room with more than one other person outside his immediate family, and not allowed to write anything for either public or private consumption. Additionally, he was not allowed to leave his defined banning area. We can see how cruel and racist white people were. This only with Biko. While with other people they used to kill them.In the begining Woods critisized Biko's actions in his newspaper  but later when he met him he knew he was wrong. Biko invites Woods to visit a black town to see the bad and terrible conditions and to witness the effect of theApartheid system. Then Woods understands the situation and tries to help Biko to make South Africa a country where blacks and whites have the same rights and the same opportunities. Biko dies. Then Woods tries to tell the police about the murder of Biko. He meets with Jimmy Kruger, the South African Minister of Justice, but his efforts to expose the truth lead to his own banning. His family are targeted by the police and they try to finish them using some dirty tricks. Woods tries to go to England. After a long trip he escapes to Lesotho and from there he flies to Bostwana where he is helped by an Australian politician.

In the end of the movie they show the names of the anti-Apartheid activist. Most of them commited suicide and some of them are said to have fallen down stairs.

In my opinion this movie represent how corrupted and selfish is the mind of a lot of people. Blacks are humans too. The colour doesn`t matter, but people judge only the appearance of the others not the heart. I think even now black people are looked as inferior and useless but. How many famous black people are there now compared to 60 years ago? The difference is huge and all this was possible because of the effort of black oppositors to stop Apartheid. A lot of people died, yes. But their sacrifice wasn`t in vain. They  saved South Africa from a black future.

Black people must have the same rights as white people and white people must respect them more and stop thinking they are superior.

But the most shocking thing I saw in ths movie is the mentality of white people. They only imprison and execute the in case they fight in defense of their rights. Other things I saw is how South Africa was litterally separated in two different races, black and white. This kind of things shouldnt exist. Why this didn't happend to oriental person? Is it because of the colour? Probably. No. Sure, it is because of the colour. In some cultures people see black as somthing which gives you bad luck and it is bad and useless. Just think in the popular black cat. ''If the black cat walks besides you it will give you bad luck for the rest of the day''. It is something stupid. But back in time people believed in this kind of racist things. Why do they don't say that white cat gives bad luck? I think it's because of the religion more than anything. In some religions black people are treated as monsters and demons.

This movie was creepy in my opinion. I can't imagine this kind of things happening now in my country. But well. The good thing in all this is that now black people and white people are equal.