The most cliche-ridden bunch of crap I've seen for a while. Most movies have learnt to avoid too many cliches but this one is drawn to them like a jackal to left-over offal -it just can't keep its snout out of it.
The undoubtedly well-intentioned story falls into the trap of portraying all Afrikaaners as scum-sucking vermin while all the blacks are kind-hearted good guys.
I thought the 2 actors who portrayed the younger PK were obnoxious and the cutesy voice-over from the youngest PK made me wish those horrible Afrikaaner boarding students had been more successful in their efforts to string him up. The prison camp scene where the teenage PK conducts a black choir came across to me as patronising to black people (they're incapable of forming or conducting their own choir without the help of some pissanty little white kid in short pants for God's sake)
In the end I was cringing in my seat as I could predict each embarrassingly tacky moment. You don't fight racism with stories and movies like this which only reinforce the good guy-bad guy stereotypes.
The undoubtedly well-intentioned story falls into the trap of portraying all Afrikaaners as scum-sucking vermin while all the blacks are kind-hearted good guys.
I thought the 2 actors who portrayed the younger PK were obnoxious and the cutesy voice-over from the youngest PK made me wish those horrible Afrikaaner boarding students had been more successful in their efforts to string him up. The prison camp scene where the teenage PK conducts a black choir came across to me as patronising to black people (they're incapable of forming or conducting their own choir without the help of some pissanty little white kid in short pants for God's sake)
In the end I was cringing in my seat as I could predict each embarrassingly tacky moment. You don't fight racism with stories and movies like this which only reinforce the good guy-bad guy stereotypes.