Tsotsi (2005) by Gavin Hood is the South African film that has won numerous awards and is just one of many by Hood, others are X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009) and The Game by Ender (2013). Set in Johannesburg, post-apartheid South Africa, the film depicts the dramatic life of a young delinquent named Tsotsi, who shoots and steals a car from a middle-class African woman, thus unintentionally kidnapping her baby. The themes of decency, redemption and chance are explored extensively in the film, absorbing the viewer's attention. This is achieved through cinematic techniques, including camera angles, custom design, and music that communicate Hood's views on stereotypes. This essay will analyze the sequence for its historical and cultural context to compare and contrast how the film portrays the rich and the impoverished. Say no to plagiarism. Get a tailor-made essay on "Why Violent Video Games Shouldn't Be Banned"? Get an Original Essay The selected sequence begins with Tsotsi and his friends Butcher, Boston and Aap coming out of Tsotsi's dilapidated apartment with the camera zooming in and showing us an extremely long shot of the slums. We then cut to all three of them walking down the street as they pass an individual who appears to be doing good for himself sitting on the roof of his luxury car with many people surrounding him. The man shouts something at Tsotsi and Tsotsi sends him away and continues walking without even turning to look at him. The film then cuts again to Tsotsi and his friends getting off a subway train, going up the stairs and passing a homeless man in a wheelchair, as they continue walking the camera zooms in showing us a billboard with the slogan "We are all suffering from AIDS” Tsotsi and his friends suddenly stop walking in the middle of the station and look around at various people until Tsotsi looks at an older black man who is buying a tie and is well dressed. Tsotsi and his friends follow him and finally they get on the subway with him, Aap is the first to approach him without doing anything as if he is there, then the rest of the group follows him after everyone around him turns to him saying to be quiet, the man seems confused and begins to panic but before he can make any noise Butcher stabs him with a pickaxe, not necessarily a knife The group then holds him back while they empty his pockets and as the subway train empties they drop the man and they escape the area and are left with the image of the man lying alone on the train lifeless. The film then continues with them standing in front of the flight of stairs with Boston vomiting after killing the old man, then they cut to them in a bar drinking and Boston has gotten drunk and can't hold back his emotions and talks about how they were wrong and Tsotsi needs to learn decency. Viewers are immediately intrigued by the contrast between the upper-middle-class skyscrapers and townships of Soweto, which convey the reality of life in the “City of Gold.” This is conveyed in the opening scene by an extremely long shot, in which Hood captures realistic images of the slums of the ghetto, portraying the repetition of the economic difference between the rich and the poor. This is also depicted when Tsotsi and the other gang members are ushered inside the corrugated iron shack, which is an interesting contrast to John and Pumla's middle-class family home later in the film. Therefore, the producer showed the real contrasts between the realistic stereotypes that many like Tsotsi are forced to live in. Using very long shots, we begin to understand Tsotsi's position in the text, as it is put.