Tsotsi

Tsotsi just made me pissed off. Put that film in English and it gets called the emotional craptrap it is. I'm serious. There is nothing remotely great about the film. What the hell was the Academy thinking? Looking at the list of films from that year put up for consideration, I haven't seen any of them besides this and Fateless. Fateless was better, and based on friends who have seen them, The Death of Mr. Lazarescu, Joyeux Noel, and Sophie Scholl were all quite good films. And all three are in my queue. And so are The Wayward Cloud and Perhaps Love (well, they would be if it were available on DVD here). My problem with Tsotsi was that it was a boring realization of responsibility film that was not original at all. Sure, Presley Chweneyagae was unexpectedly moving in some scenes, in others you could never tell what he was thinking, but it was also all over the place from an emotional sense. Vastly overrated by the Academy, and again proving that they have no clue.