I really don't want to register my thoughts and opinions on this movie because I'll probably be all over the place. Movies like "Cry Freedom" are so deeply personal to me that I can't possibly watch them objectively.
I will say this: it is a good movie if for any reason it shed light on the Apartheid regime in South Africa and the unspeakable evils the white Boers were committing against the Black South Africans. But I found it strange that Stephen Biko, a Black man, was killed and all of a sudden I'm watching the trials and tribulations of a white family. Somehow I think it only became a movie because there was a white family caught up in the mix. And now I've already said more than I wanted to.
If you have any morsel of flesh in your chest cavity that can rightly be called a heart, then you will be jolted by the events in "Cry Freedom." If you have, as Omarion sang, an icebox where your heart used to be, then sit back, relax, have some popcorn, and be at ease with other people's suffering.
I will say this: it is a good movie if for any reason it shed light on the Apartheid regime in South Africa and the unspeakable evils the white Boers were committing against the Black South Africans. But I found it strange that Stephen Biko, a Black man, was killed and all of a sudden I'm watching the trials and tribulations of a white family. Somehow I think it only became a movie because there was a white family caught up in the mix. And now I've already said more than I wanted to.
If you have any morsel of flesh in your chest cavity that can rightly be called a heart, then you will be jolted by the events in "Cry Freedom." If you have, as Omarion sang, an icebox where your heart used to be, then sit back, relax, have some popcorn, and be at ease with other people's suffering.