SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

The movie really just wants to entertain people.

Tsotsi who lives in a slum, Johannesburg pilfers with his friends. One day, he attacks a woman and hijacks a car. However, he finds that there is a baby on a rear seat of the car while driving. He puts the baby into a paper bag and takes to his house.I thought about poverty and racial discrimination again through this film.Also I realized the importance of education. If people don't receive enough education, they cannot judge between good and evil.I couldn't understand all of this film because I live in Japan peacefully, but I was able to deepen my understanding of problems in South Africa.I had thought that human beings cannot change so easily, but I came to think everyone has kindness by nature after I watched this film.Of course, what Tsotsi does is evil and cannot be permitted, but I think that his bad environment influences his behavior. We cannot change the environment where we grew up. However, I believe that we can change our future ourselves.

I am very glad I picked this movie. This was my second favorite movie I have seen this year, just behind Sin nombre. In this movie the main character struggled from a young age where his mother was sick and his father seemed to be abusive. He ran away when he was a child and grew up without parents somewhere in South Africa. He slept in pipes and turned to a life of crimes with some other kids who seemed to not have their parents. The first scene in the movie shows where the group of kids kill a man on a subway with an ice pick. Tsotsi, the main character, becomes aggravated by one of his friends and beats him up, then runs away. He steals a car from a women, he shot her in the process. However, he didn't realize that her baby was in the car. He leaves the car on the side of the road and takes the baby. He wants to raise the baby as his own. He seems to love this baby. He finds out that the mother who he shot survived. In the end, similar to an American movie, he gives the baby back to the father and mother.

Tsotsi means a bad boy. A black boy who is a leader of gang is called Tsotsi. He kills innocent people and steal money with his companies again and again. One day he steals a car and finds a baby in the car. He decides to bring up the baby. He meet a woman who is also raising her baby and gradually, he realize the cruelty of what he did. The woman tells Tsotsi to return the baby. Hearing her advice, he decides to …Tsotsi is a movie directed by Gavin Hood, who was born in South Africa. His work, X-men is one of a famous movies. The movie, Tsotsi was shot on location in South Africa. The movie won an Academy Award for best foreign language film in 2006. Through watching the movie, we can understand that all human beings are inherently-good regardless of their races and nationalities.

Last year, I went to South Africa and before my trip, I watched a bunch of films about the country. One that I did not see was "Tsotsi"--and I am very glad I hadn't seen it! This is NOT because I dislike the film, it's a fine film, but because I went to many of the same places that were in the movie and "Tsotsi" would have scared me out of visiting Johannesburg and nearby Soweto!! That's because the film shows the lower and crime-ridden parts of society--where life is cheap and violence is common. Now I knew this could be a rough place--but the film shows just how rough--as well as how folks in the suburbs live in walled enclaves due to the crime.This film begins with a gang of young adults out to do no good. When they kill a man on a train, one of the gang members has had enough and confronts the killer, Tsotsi. This degenerates quickly into a vicious attack on this guy--and it's VERY clear that Tsotsi is a bad person. Next, he goes out to the suburbs and shoots a woman and steals her car. But, when he looks in the back seat later, he finds a baby. This does not instantly turn the thug into a decent man, but it does, in an odd way push him in that direction. I don't want to say more--just see the film.I have not seen all the Academy Award winners from 2006, though I did think that another nominee, "Joyeux Noel" was a tad better than "Tsotsi"--just a tad. But I still admire both films. "Tsotsi" gives audiences a rare look into the poverty of life in a township in South Africa and it also shows that within even the seemingly worst of us, there can be a spark of goodness. Overall, a very good film--one worth your time.By the way, if you see this on DVD, check out the special features. It shows two alternate endings and explains why the chose (correctly) to use the one that's in the film. This is really fascinating and worth a look.