Wednesday, March 16, 2011

     Tsotsi is a foreign drama film that takes place in the slums of Soweto, which is near Johannesburg, South Africa.  This film is about a young man named Tsotsi, who is known as a street thug that robs people, and even sometimes committing murders.  One of his heists goes wrong, in which he steals a woman's car and shoots her when she tries to plead with him to not steal her car.  As Tsotsi is driving off, he notices that there's a baby in the backseat of the car.  This makes him feel really scared about his current situation, but he decides to bring the infant with him to his home.  He makes the decision to care for this child, but goes through a lot of trouble to do so.  Later in the movie, he pulls a gun on a mother with her child, in which he demands her to breastfeed the stolen infant.  She complies and the infant, which Tsotsi named "David", develops a bond with the mother's child.  As a result, the mother eventually develops a bond with David and it was especially tough for her when Tsotsi had to take David and give it back to the infant's original family.

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