Yesterday, Tsotsi : South Africa movie production shows great promises

South Africa is not known as being a filmic mecca but we should pay attention to its production as 2 movies proved that there was a lot of talent in that country : Yesterday from Darryll Roodt & Tsotsi from Gavin Hood.


Yesterday, Love has the power to change our tomorrows. The movie relates the story of a young mother called Yesterday who discovers she has AIDS. Her husband, a migrant mine laborer who works in Johannesburg, who originally gave her the disease, rejects her. Her ambition becomes to live long enough to see her daughter, Beauty, go to school. Leleti Khumalo in the role of Yesterday is moving and really inspiring. The movie talks about love and hope through despair and disease, but also addresses issues like discrimination and stigma that is attached to the AIDS pandemic especially in villages in Africa.

Tsotsi, Hope set him free. Tsotsi is a 2005 Academy Award-winning film, based on a novel of the same name by Athol Fugard. Tsotsi is a Sesotho slang word for a "thug" or "robber". Presley Chweneyagae eminently plays Tsotsi a young gang member that finds himself in charge of a young baby after hijacking a car. During 6-7 days, we watch Tsotsi metamorphosing himself from a displaced miscreant youth to a caring young adult, seeking redemption, feeling compassion for the baby and humanity as a whole. The story takes place in a township, but the issues of AIDS, poverty, crime are poignantly addressed. Those issues are unfortunately so universal that the story of the movie could have happened anywhere in the world.

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source images : Yesterday (Yesterday official website), Tsotsi (Movieweb)


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J'ai regarde "Yesterday", un film simple, realiste et tres poignant. Dans une Afrique du Sud qui aujourd'hui surprend et choque avec ses methodes de lutte contre la pandemie, il faut esperer qu'un film comme celui-la puisse avoir un impact consequent sur la population. Malheureusement ca ne semble pas etre le cas.

Comment est-ce que de nos jours on peut voir des dirigeants, des personnes tres influentes sortir des inepties telles que celles que l'on entend en Af' Sud. Un dirigeant qui dit avoir pris une douche apres un rapport non protegee pour prevenir la contamination, un autre qui pretend que l'on peut soigner cette maladie a travers l'homeopathie etc... Quand est-ce que le Bon Dieu acceptera de se pencher sur notre cas ?

Aujourd'hui en Afrique, tant que les gens n'admettront pas qu'on meurt de SIDA, les choses ne changeront pas de sitot. Pour cela il faut la contribution de tout un chacun. Deja, il faut accepter de donner les vraies raisons du deces. Tous ces jeunes qui disparaissent chaque jour dans nos pays, on dira il est mort des suites d'une "longue maladie" ou alors de "tuberculose" etc... Il faut expliquer aux gens que la personne a contracte la maladie a cause de son systeme immunitaire rendu defaillant du fait de sa seropositivite. Il faut parler, expliquer. Les femmes ne doivent pas avoir peur de refuser d'avoir des rapports avec un homme qui ne veut pas utiliser de preservatif. Ca n'enleve rien a leur dignite, au contraire !

Le SIDA nous pouvons le prevenir, nous pouvons le combattre. Battons-nous contre cette maladie tant que nous pouvons. Ce n'est pas le Cancer, contre lequel on ne peut rien malheureusement, donc essayons de combattre au mieux cette maladie.
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