Cry freedom is a real life drama recorded as a movie. The movies main character is steve biko (played by the actor Denzel Washington), a man in his early thirties who has the ability to lead his people; the blacks againt the South African injustices. He's most recognised point or view was „we don't want to be forced into your society...I'm not going to be what you want me to be." Biko was able to show what apartheid has done when he meets a white journalist by the name of Donald Woods. He was a white who was strongly againts 'supremacy' as he beleived that it built a wall of hatred which infact apartheid was causing. Woods slowly gives awarness of the apartheid's violent side through the submission of photographs of a ghetto being attack by South African police into the newspaper he is the editor of.
At a sad note Biko is arrested on his way to a rally and is beaten to death in custody; the governmen announces he's death as a 'hunger strike'. Donald Woods is deeply outr
aged and shocked. He goes to see the body and takes photographs of the beaten body and plans to smuggle the photo's out of the country which includes a plan of him diskized as a preast and the escape of his family. Before that he was placed on house arrest as Biko was through with his revolutionary era of speaches. My personal response to the apartheid issue is that im simply tottally against that because it cause discrimination and stronger racism. But I guess that strong racism within a certain community caused apartheid.
The local police officer said that he can understand the anger of the community but he stills believes that his officers did not over abuse there power on the boy. In another note by the law, police officers cannot be placed into procecution.
My personal belief regarding the incidents which occurred in South Africa and which are occurring in Australia is that the law should persecute any persons in threat of these people. I can see that the government has no hars
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