But the pictures were snapped up by the foreign press. Picture editor Robin Comley (Malin Akerman) fought a tough battle to publish these photographs in the paper, because the ruling National Party imposed stringent banning orders to conceal this struggle from the South African public. Greg Marinovich (Ryan Phillipe), Ken Oosterbroek (Frank Rautenbach) Kevin Carter (Taylor Kitsch) and João Silva (Neels van Jaarsveld) risked their lives to show the brutality of these conflicts. The ANC cadres were staging protest marches, which rapidly turned into violent confrontations with the South African police and the army.Ī group of photo-journalists for The Star newspaper were very much in the front line. The film is set in Johannesburg and its surrounding townships in the early 1990s, during the time that Nelson Mandela was released from prison. Like Gavin Hood's Tsotsi and Ralph Ziman's Jerusalema, this film offers a resonant and compelling insight into a turning point in the ANC's liberation struggle. The Bang Bang Club is the exception to that rule. The local film industry tends to produce romantic comedies, cheap candid-camera skits or soap-opera dramas. South Africans seldom get to see serious movies about our country. This is the best South African-made film about the struggle yet
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