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Bang Bang Club film review

1. In general, what did you like and dislike about the film?
I think the movie was very good in many ways, but I couldn't really enjoy it. It is mainly because of the characters, that weren't likeable to me. I saw most of them as opportunist people who didn't really care about others, and only of the ways they could profit with them. The best example is the main character, Greg, who after selling all of his pictures to an agency lost his sense of empathy.However, this is exactly what makes the part I like the most about this film: the moral conflict. The insensivity of the photographers contrasts with all that we have seen in the other movies. The Bang Bang Club didn't care about South African people, just the money.

2.  How does the film make you think about your future role as journalists and film makers/producers/creators/directors?
This movie makes me think about the ethical decisions I'll have to make, about what to show to the public and what my job with them should be. Should I help others after I finish my reporting job? Or just show it? Am I in power to change society? These are some of the questions that come to my mind after watching the movie, but I won't know what the answer it by just watching this movie. 

3.  In this film, and various of the other films, we have seen how black South Africans went to vote massively in April 1994 to seal the downfall of the apartheid system with the electoral triumph of Nelson Mandela and the ANC, now more than 20 years later, we see many of the problems originated during the apartheid are still present such as land inequality, class inequality, unemployment, etc.
How have the dreams from the anti-apartheid struggle played out since the ANC has been in power? (Remember to use the article South Africa’s Coming Two-Party System)
Not really well, I'd say. It's true that the regime itself ended, and with it the violence, but the racism and inequality are still on. The opportunities for black people and their vulnerability just didn't end.
The way that South African government is focusing in mostly economic politics, and not so much social ones, and its neoliberal ideology, doesn't seem to be changing this, and that's truly sad.
The ANC has changed a lot since it entered the power of the state, its ideals and hopes aren't the same as in the apartheid regime. I think that changing this view and trying to make social reforms is the way for this to change, but it depends on the goverment and, as things look right now, that's not what they want to do.

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