The Bang Bang Club
2011 Directed by Steven Silver
Synopsis
Sometimes you get too close
In the early to mid '90s, when the South African system of apartheid was in its death throes, four photographers - Greg Marinovich (Ryan Phillippe), Kevin Carter (Taylor Kitsch), Ken Oosterbroek (Frank Rautenbach) and João Silva (Neels Van Jaarsveld) - bonded by their friendship and a sense of purpose, worked together to chronicle the violence and upheaval leading up to the 1994 election of Nelson Mandela as president. Their work is risky and dangerous, potentially fatally so, as they thrust themselves into the middle of chaotic clashes between forces backed by the government (including Inkatha Zulu warriors) and those in support of Mandela's African National Congress.
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Nice movie. Fascinating story and definitely worth viewing.
I looked up some pictures on Google and I must say that the picture of Kevin Carter with the starving child and the vulture in background is a beautiful and a very touching picture.
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decent film documenting an extrodinary book which looks at the complex emotional journey of photographers during aprtheid South Africa. I felt the text at the start of the movie was way to simplistic and actually detracted from giving the film context. As a South African, Taylor Kitsch's accent was off, but on a whole I really ejoyed the film.
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It takes a special breed of photographer to document combat. They risk life and limb for that one shot that will explain, expose or otherwise illuminate the conflict. Along the way they are haunted by what they have seen, what they have done and not done in the name of journalism.
The Bang Bang Club moved me in a way I was unprepared for and haven't felt since watching the Killing Fields. It's a story about the photographers and their experiences with the political events serving primarily as a back drop.
Whether you know it or not you have seen and you will recognize, upon second viewing, the images taken by Greg Marinovich (Ryan Phillippe), Kevin Carter (Taylor Kitsch), João…
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Really gripping first act. But the second act short-changed protagonists story lines, especially Kevin Carter's, leaving the conclusion of the film less satisfying and affecting than it should have been. Ryan Phillipe's South African accent was a lot more consistent than Taylor Kitsch. It still annoys me that, even after the success of Tsotsi and District 9, South African films can't get financing without an American lead.
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Tositapahtumiin pohjautuen kuvataan järjettömän apartheid-systeemin romahdus neljän valokuvaajan silmin.
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På nyhetene ser vi regelmessig innslag fra slagmarker verda over uten at vi egentlig tenker over det. Det samme skjer når vi ser fotografier fra de samme stedene. Har vi noen gang satt oss ned og tenkt over hvorfor de blir tatt? Hva fotografen må gå igjennom? Og ikke minst hvorfor akkurat det bildet ble publisert i media?
Noen ganger blir det misvisende å påstå at en film er basert på en sann historie for i noen ytterst sjeldne tilfeller er filmen så tro mot virkeligheten at det blir en filmatisk dokumentar, og det er nettopp dette den sør-afrikanske filmskaperen Steven Silver har ønsket å presentere med The Bang Bang Club. Som et kallenavn på en kvartett med fotografer som…
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Straight into the "photography porn" collection!
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Die Story war nicht mein Fall
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Jon Carter go bang bang. Photojournalists with hard ons for chaos.
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I quite liked it- I can see why it didn't get good review because everything happened without showing why, you almost have to know the story first before watching this to get it, but it was really cool to see them re-enact the famous photographs. Also it was a bit uncomfortably violent - but I guess that's the nature of civil war/real life...
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I just got my EOS Rebel and I hope to win the Pulitzer soon.
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Wer sich für Geschichte und Hintergründe interessiert, ist hier genau richtig aufgehoben. Wer einen Unterhaltungsfilm sucht, wird hier wohl nicht fündig.
Hier wurde ein ganz anderer Blickwinkel auf die Geschehnisse in Südafrika gerichtet. Was der ANC tat, war auch nicht alles gut. Viele Menschen hatten Angst vor den Konsequenzen. Man kann niemanden zwingen, sich einer Freiheitsbewegung anzuschließen, auch wenn sie richtig ist. Aber genau das versuchten zumindest Teile des ANC.
Es ist beeindruckend, dass es Menschen gibt, die genau da hin gehen, wo normale Menschen flüchten würden. Prägend ist das Bild, in dem sich die konkurrierenden Gruppierungen (der ANC und die Zulu) gegenüberstehen und die Fotographen einfach dazwischen laufen um ihre Fotos zu schießen. Hinzu kommt, dass es diese Gruppe junger Fotographen und ihre Berichterstattung aus Südafrika tatsächlich gab.