Sunday, February 9, 2014

Explain the most powerful scene from Cry Freedom.

You have many from which to choose.  Attenborough's film
is probably one of the best films about a topic that does not receive much in way of
treatment, Steve Biko.  I like the ending, to be honest.  When Donald Woods and his
family fly out of South African airspace, the journalist who had endured so much to
bring out the justice behind Biko's death, he recalls a conversation with Biko about the
Soweto uprising.  The scene is powerful, but Biko's voice-over about the predicament
that Black children in South Africa face is extremely poignant.  Adding to this is the
ending, which others see as a bit too cliched, where political prisoners' names who
rebelled against Apartheid and died in prison, like Biko, are shown on the screen with
the anthem, "Nkosi Sikele Africa," being sung.  I think that it's a powerful moment in
that is truly provides a transformative moment where the viewer understands that their
opinion on Apartheid and those who fight for freedom will be permanently
altered.

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