Tsotsi
Tsotsi
| 23 December 2005 (USA)
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The South African multi-award winning film about a young South African boy from the ghetto named Tsotsi, meaning Gangster. Tsotsi, who left home as a child to get away from helpless parents, finds a baby in the back seat of a car that he has just stolen. He decides that it his responsibility to take care of the baby and in the process learns that maybe the gangster life isn’t the best way.

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Scanialara

You won't be disappointed!

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Sexyloutak

Absolutely the worst movie.

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Taha Avalos

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

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Ella-May O'Brien

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

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rhysseddon-88973

More like a channel 5 Sunday afternoon film if your bored, still a decent watch but i wouldn't pay top dollar to see it, worth it if you borrow it from a mate, or see it on the telly on channel 5 on a Sunday afternoon if your bored kinda just went over that but i need filler for the review

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Jack

I am very glad I picked this movie. This was my second favorite movie I have seen this year, just behind Sin nombre. In this movie the main character struggled from a young age where his mother was sick and his father seemed to be abusive. He ran away when he was a child and grew up without parents somewhere in South Africa. He slept in pipes and turned to a life of crimes with some other kids who seemed to not have their parents. The first scene in the movie shows where the group of kids kill a man on a subway with an ice pick. Tsotsi, the main character, becomes aggravated by one of his friends and beats him up, then runs away. He steals a car from a women, he shot her in the process. However, he didn't realize that her baby was in the car. He leaves the car on the side of the road and takes the baby. He wants to raise the baby as his own. He seems to love this baby. He finds out that the mother who he shot survived. In the end, similar to an American movie, he gives the baby back to the father and mother.

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Dale Haufrect

"Tsotsi" is a truly unforgettable film from 2005. It is currently available on NetFlix Instant Download Streaming. The director is Gavin Hod. The novel is by Athol Fugard and the screenwriter is Gavin Hood. Actors include Presley Chweneyagae, Terry Pheto, Kenneth Nkosi and Mothusi Magano. Tsotsi is gorgeous, riveting, poignant, and thrilling. Not only is it a first-rate piece of storytelling, but it also takes the viewer into a world of South African poverty and crime that he has never seen before. Director/writer Gavin Hood offers us a tale of tragic redemption and uncommon poetry in a subculture of the most abject immorality. Truly unforgettable. The only work in recent times to which this movie can be compared is City of God. There, too, the viewer is brought into a world of poverty and crime he probably never knew existed. It is a world so bleak that it forces the viewer to examine his own morality and wonder how much of the civility he takes for granted in his life is merely the luxury of the well fed and comfortable. These characters live on the edge and their primary passion is survival. I gave it 8 stars. Dale Haufrect

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rasko02

A brilliant story told about life in the townships of South Africa. Giving the view of what life is like for some in SA. Displaying economic and social problems that part of the world provide. Displaying the best of Independent film making. Acting of super class level. So truful and compelling. The film on site locations really gave the whole film a sense of realism. At times a difficult film to watch because of the nature of the film and it realistic feel and look. So great that the film was performed not in English. It made the story that more gritty. Style of the film put you in with cast. Moment in this film were so powerful it left many in tears. A very important film - A MUST SEE.

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