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 turned this off halfway through so I can't tell you what it does overall, you can turn to the rest of the comments here for that. It's described as a humanistic film, so I will only offer here a small comment on the tools used in the effort to humanize us.It's about a young thug eking out a life of violence in the South African jungle, about a world where life means nothing. It begins to that effect with a subway holdup and a family man gutted for no reason. The way it's made is that we have this calloused boy thrust in successive visions that soften the steely gaze and humanize: some unfold in present time, some with the air of vision, others in flashback to his childhood home. It's a fine structure, and one I would love to see in a way that softens the hard edges of reality to bring yearning to the fore in a real way. One memorable moment has him envision himself with family. But it's all blunt here (in the portion that I saw): a baby, a homeless man, an abusive father who breaks the dog's back. Its bluntness is not that it's too real, and this is exactly why I turned it off. It's the movie cartoon version so any redemption that would be in store for us later would feel phony to me. Yes, we see a world of abject poverty, but it's the airbrushed construct. So I don't feel that I have entered this world as it truly is, I feel someone's hand prying for my emotions. This is as real as Leon, I'd rather have Gloria myself.

This film describes problems that the Republic of South Africa has from the view of the main character, Tsotsi. South Africa has many serious problems like high crime rate, HIV, and high unemployment rate. Tsotsi is one of the people who suffer from such problems, and he needs to commit crimes to live. He takes up arms, and attacks people by force.However, one day he finds something stronger than force. He cannot wound the baby and the woman who cares his baby. Tsotsi had not been loved, but he finds he wants to love somebody. He regrets what he did, and finally he tries to make up for his misdeed with his all possible efforts. His look changes dramatically after he found the baby. At the beginning of the story, Tsotsi was just a delinquent boy, but he changes a man who can love somebody. All of actors, especially Presley Chweneyagae who acts Tsotsi, put on splendid performance. They and awesome story make us be moved.

Tsotsi directed by Gavin Hood was a story based in Africa, showing a different side that many people do not realize that a lot of that country has many issues that are addressed throughout this movie. In Tsotsi we start off following Tsotsi, who is a young adult probably around the age of sixteen or eighteen, and his buddies Aap, Boston, and Butcher. These four partners commit crimes to makes money called "jobs", the first job we as the viewers get to witness is when Tsotsi and the three friends follow a high roller man into a subway and rob him, and while robbing him they kill this innocent man. Later on through the story Tsotsi is on his own, alone and kind of nervous, he sees a lady pull up in a nice house and is locked out of her gate, so while she isn't paying attention Tsotsi steals her car as she runs toward him he shoots her. Little did he know that a baby was in that back seat, at first Tsotsi was about to leave the baby, but decided to take him to his house. As the movie progress you see that Tsotsi grows into a different young man, with the responsibilities of the child he has taken, has shaped him in a way that helps him understand life and the meaning to it. However, Tsotsi has to make the biggest decision of his life, which is to take the baby back to its rightful family. In doing this he decides to take the baby to his mother and father, by turning himself in, but as you witness something new in Tsotsi as the parents ask for the baby it is hard for him to let go, because how attached he had become to the baby or "his new life".