[Revisit Review]
I had two revelations re-watching Gavin Hood's Tsotsi. First, I couldn't believe that I had never noticed before that literally the only white character in the entire film was the senior police detective. Second, it was that this was an unusually quiet film. Violence is quiet: a man gets stabbed in a subway in silence; a friend is assaulted in a club and the music and background noise drops out. For Tsotsi, violence is the only means of communication that he fully understands. He makes his neighbor feed the baby at gunpoint because he doesn't know that he could just ask her to. Presley Chweneyagae's performance is stunning in its quiet, restrained intensity. The last five minutes of the film alone should have netted him an Oscar.
9/10
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