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- Also Known As:
- Year:
- 2005
- Countries:
- Predominant Genre:
- Crime
- Director:
- Outstanding Performances:
- Premiss:
- Six days in the violent life of a young gang leader.
- Themes:
- Alienation | Christianity | Compassion | Destiny | Emotional repression | Guilt | Loyalty | Narcissism | Personal change | Political Correctness | Redemption | Self-expression | Social class | White culture | White guilt | White supremacy
- Similar (in Plot, Theme or Style) to:
- Review Format:
- DVD
Despite the political and psychological naivety of the piece, this is a deeply-affecting tale of redemption among the shanty townships of Johannesburg. You will find yourself rooting for the villain in his long dark night of the soul as he struggles to be one of the few leopards who ever changed his spots.
Fully imbued with a richly-warm and a profound humanity, this is the kind of story that Leo Tolstoy would have dearly loved. The performances speak directly to the audience of the passion of each of the characters and of how they either chose to buckle under the pain or become better people for it.
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