TsotsiAmanda, Amy and Haydn

Key ScenesTsotsi’s place, Middle Class house, Tsotsi’s child home, Train Station, Overview of city

Tsotsi’s Place

• Square room• Cramped • Has the necessary furniture = Poverty within slums• Bullet holes through walls=Violence/conflict within slums• Hardly any light, Tsotsi is in the shadows=Mysterious character, not sure what he is going to do • Main colour here is black=haunted by his past (mother passed away, alcoholic father) • Long shot but tightly framed • Candle light =New life of the baby?

Overview of City

Big New York styled city, makes contrast between the baron land he is sat on and the city a lot more drastic

He isn’t facing the city, he doesn’t belong there and is not part of the wealth and that lifestyle

Tsotsi is wearing all black, instantly seen as the antagonist/stereotypical thug

Long shot used, able to see the distance between him and the city

The city looks so big and he looks so small, shows how insignificant he is

Train Station

External Context= AIDS is very much present over everyone's lives here, it is always a message that is constantly through the film, like a hidden message but is always there to remind us

Even in the built up, wealthy city, AIDs is still a big problem, but it just seems like the middle/upper class get on with their lives whereas it really affects the lower class

Tsotsi’s Child Home

All homeless children that have had the after effects of AIDS, lost family members and ended up on their own

Completely crowded, multiple people per pipe

Burnt out car next to pipes

Low key Lighting = loss of hope

Raining = always rains with something negative is happening

When Tsotsi went back, the children were nasty and automatically assumed the baby’s mother had died

Middle Class House

Security (gates, lots of alarms), lots of wine, fridge full of food, posh expensive car = Shows their wealth

Middle class man framed on his own, shows he is different to the characters from the slums = Class divide

Characters from slums wearing black = instantly see they are the antagonists

Don’t hide their faces, they’re from the slums so know they won’t be caught

When steal the car, can’t drive it shows not educated = people in the slums aren’t as privileged

Final Scene Gives money to the old man, he’s helping rather than stealing = a changed man

Walks with the city behind him, but then turns round to looks at it, as if he is thinking about going into the city and doingsomething good for a living, and he lets the child see the big city, as if he is showing him his real home

Parallel edits to Mirium playing with her child, shows that Tsotsi has got them on his mind, become a ‘soft’ character

Police force has both black and white, but the white are still superior

Tsotsi is dressed in white and looks very smart= he’s got away from the violence and become a good character. Could also been seen as him holding up a white flag and surrendering

Police call the middle class man ‘sir’ as if he is their captain

Soft non-diegetic music playing over scene, feel his emotion

Low angle is used when Tsotsi is looking towards the middle class house, as if it is looking over him, he stills looks insignificant compared to the wealth, he is nothing compared to it

The gate is what separates him to the house, he will never get that wealth

Goes back to the baby, again shows he’s a soft character and got an attachment to it

Non-diegetic music speeds up when the police are on their way, and they point a lot of guns at Tsotsi, maybe showing the police are scared because he is from the slums, also police take orders from the middle class man

Fade to black, the end for Tsotsi has he is most likely going to prison, also there is no rain over the scene when there normally is when something bad is happening(he is losing the baby) this can be because he is doing the right thing

Context

AIDS

Banners shown throughout

•Mum passing awayChildren left on their own

Third World

Most poverty

But we thought it was worse due to the

media

Nelson Mandela

Fought to dismantle apartheid

•Came about when South Africa was colonized by the Dutch

Messages and

Values

Middle Class control Police

Security respond to the middle/upper

class very quickly

Huge Class divide

Seen through extreme long

shots

Community in the slums helps each

other

Mirium feeds child

Even though in deep

poverty, still able to look after child

Simply get on with their lives

CHARACTERS TO CONCENTRATE ON:

TSOTSI

MIRIUM

MIDDLE CLASS

POLICE

THE SHANTY TOWN POPULATION

IS THERE NO DRUGS IN THIS FILM DUE TO THE MIDDLE CLASS NOT GETTING INVOLVED WITH THE SLUMS?