This movie was filled with different things that were kind of shocking. The scene that got to me the most was a scene where the black africans are protesting because they don't want to learn Afrikaans instead of English, that is what the South African government is trying to make then do. They are having a pretty peaceful protest, there was never any violence involved on their side. When they reached the place where the police where, the main police officer told all of the other police officers to shoot. They were relentless and brutal, shooting everyone from grown men to little babies. It was really sad to watch and I almost couldn't believe that people could be so heartless, especially toward children. It is said that 400- 600 school age children were killed that day. That is just unfathomable. It is worse then segregation was here and almost as bad as the Holocaust. Some could say that is was just as bad as the Holocaust because just like the Holocaust, people were being outcasted because of something that the could not control. And then they were contained and terminated because of it.
Friday, April 6, 2012
Cruelty In the Movie
Today in class, we finished the movie, "Cry Freedom". We have been watching this movie all week in class and it is about the struggles from the Apartheid in South Africa. I think the movie is was really interesting because i knew very little about what was happening in South Africa (see previous post titled apartheid).
This movie was filled with different things that were kind of shocking. The scene that got to me the most was a scene where the black africans are protesting because they don't want to learn Afrikaans instead of English, that is what the South African government is trying to make then do. They are having a pretty peaceful protest, there was never any violence involved on their side. When they reached the place where the police where, the main police officer told all of the other police officers to shoot. They were relentless and brutal, shooting everyone from grown men to little babies. It was really sad to watch and I almost couldn't believe that people could be so heartless, especially toward children. It is said that 400- 600 school age children were killed that day. That is just unfathomable. It is worse then segregation was here and almost as bad as the Holocaust. Some could say that is was just as bad as the Holocaust because just like the Holocaust, people were being outcasted because of something that the could not control. And then they were contained and terminated because of it.
This movie was filled with different things that were kind of shocking. The scene that got to me the most was a scene where the black africans are protesting because they don't want to learn Afrikaans instead of English, that is what the South African government is trying to make then do. They are having a pretty peaceful protest, there was never any violence involved on their side. When they reached the place where the police where, the main police officer told all of the other police officers to shoot. They were relentless and brutal, shooting everyone from grown men to little babies. It was really sad to watch and I almost couldn't believe that people could be so heartless, especially toward children. It is said that 400- 600 school age children were killed that day. That is just unfathomable. It is worse then segregation was here and almost as bad as the Holocaust. Some could say that is was just as bad as the Holocaust because just like the Holocaust, people were being outcasted because of something that the could not control. And then they were contained and terminated because of it.
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