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Film Review: The bang bang club

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1. In general, what did you like and dislike about the film?
I really enjoyed the movie, I think what I liked the most was how journalism (and photojournalism) took place in the war which as a future journalist is something that I always like to see. I'm not sure how I feel about the characters (the photographers), I liked that they were very flawed individuals who caught themselves involved in the situation and didn't know what to do, the movie doesn't potrayed them as heroes in any kind of way. 
What I didn't like about the movie was the fact that the principal characters were all white.

2.  How does the film make you think about your future role as journalists and film makers/producers/creators/directors?
As a future journalist it forced me to put myself in their position deciding if to take a photo or no, or even as an editor to print an explicit photo or not which is and ongoing conversation in journalism. 

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? (Remember to use the article South Africa’s Coming Two-Party System)
I think many of the problems in South Africa are found in the way society is organized there, the legislation foundation it was the main problem but not the only one. In a society that is soo segregated it's not so hard to imagine that the whites will take the power and wealth.
Even though many of the points in the Freedom Charter were aproved, most of them were economic, but as I previously said, in a society that doesn't want to come together to talk and work as one, there will always be segregation in favor of those more priviliged, which is white people. 

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