IN MY WORDS | Cry Freedom

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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.

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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 the Botswana border and the one where the plane, where Donald is with his family. Both have in common that between them there were flashbacks of things that Biko told Donald in their many conversations and that made the scenes way more heart-touching.

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3. How does the film differs from the others films? Use the article form the Guardian to help you

 I think the main difference if of course the fact that the story is told from the point of view of people that looked for equality, but were never ultra afilliated with the political movement of the ANC, even though the Black People Convention (where Steve Biko took part) had similar ideals.
Still, this is my favorite movie overall because of the bunch of perspectives that were shown, which makes you understand the whole conflict from the inside.

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  1. Anónimo12 de agosto de 2018 a las 12:15

    the scene of the plane got me nervous all the time, i thought they maybe were going to die

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