The Bang Bang Club Reviews

Samara 2022-12-24 14:08:40

"The Gunshot Club" tells the stories of several war photojournalists, two of whom won the Pulitzer Prize, and a photo of a vulture and a little girl made the world know about the suffering in Africa. Eventually the reporter committed suicide, raising questions about his failure to save the little...

Kasey 2022-12-18 05:39:39

I was so depressed after watching the movie, I didn't expect Kevin to choose suicide.

I suddenly thought of the question raised at the beginning of Susan Sontag's "On Photography" a while ago. She said in the book: "Photography is basically an act of non-intervention. Some unforgettable examples of...

Violet 2022-12-16 15:16:02

When a reporter picks up a camera, he often has a question: Do you want to be a fly on the wall?

Whether to record reality purely with the lens like a fly, or to "participate" in reality for a better artistic effect. More importantly, when someone is injured, oppressed, and in need of help in...

Kelvin 2022-12-02 15:00:15

From 1990 to 1994, South Africa was in a bloody storm, with violent clashes between supporters of various political parties. The apartheid South African government secretly used the Zulu-dominated black nationalist party "Inkata Liberal Party" to fight against Mandela-led ANC by tricking and...

Erwin 2022-11-29 19:36:38

The director's attitude is not firm enough, and he is always struggling between discussion and expression. The ambivalence that he can't make a sense of reality and can't play literary and artistic style makes the whole play seem a little absent-minded.    The rhythm of the narrative is...

Nicolas 2022-11-28 16:41:00

BiographySouth AfricaPhotographyEthnic HistoryHumanityPsychologyBrotherhoodSocial Movements

This is the label I give to this film. The story of this film is not complicated. The story looks at the chaos before the 1994 South African presidential election through the eyes of several war...

Javon 2022-11-19 02:50:43

On the night of July 27, 1994, police found photographer Kevin Carter committing suicide with carbon monoxide in the northeastern city of Johannesburg, South Africa. In an apparent suicide - he put a green hose over the car's exhaust pipe to direct the exhaust into the car. People found a note on...

Luis 2022-11-18 03:30:51

A group of forgotten people who are bound by the trend of the times and bound by secular concepts. In the early 1990s, after Mandela took power, there was civil unrest in the Inkata Party in South Africa. Several white South African photographers formed the "Gun Club" to make a living by shooting...

Alysha 2022-11-11 17:59:51

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Al 2022-11-11 17:11:15

I think it's because I had high expectations for this drama, and for various reasons, it was inevitable that I watched the drama and felt a little disappointed. How can a 2-hour movie explain this complicated and bloody history. First of all, I think the two actors, Kevin Carter and Ken O, should...