Amandla Wamagama | The Power of Words | By Bonilla

1. In general, what did you like and dislike about the film? Some people might say they didn't like the characters (I think even the teacher did haha) but that's what I found well done about the movie, the characters are not made to sympathize, but to look real and show how humans make mistakes which can make feeling empathy for them a hard task. A lot of people is not easy to sympathize with, but that's what makes them people, just like the characters from the film, they are rather showed like real human beings than fictional well structured characters and somehow I like that. I disliked how time jumps are handled, there are many things that happened right after others in the film time, but not in the actual real time  of the events, there isn't really any remarkable elements that contextualize the time in the movie. 2. How does the film make you feel about your future role as a journalist? I knew about this story before watching the film, specifically ab...

1. Who was your favorite character from the film? Why? It's pretty obvious that most people enjoyed Steve Biko's character and I'm not even close to being the exception, it was cool to know about somebody that wasn't a big leader like Mandela but still thought like him. I admired the way of thinking that Biko had, although he didn't had a great education, he molded himself to a cultured and tranquil but asertive lifestyle, with the objetive of convincing others with the ideology of equality. Also, I liked the story of Donald Woods for his search for justice and Mapetla because of his supportive role in the movie before his death. 2. What was your favorite scene from the film? Why? There is a couple scenes that I consider my favorites and they are all from the travel that Donald makes disguised as Father Curren in order to publish his book ''BIKO''.  Two that come to my mind right now are kind of similar, I'm talking about the ones from t...