Tsotsi (2005) by Gavin Hood is the South African film which has won numerous awards and is just one of many by Hood, others are X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009) and Ender's Game (2013). Set in Johannesburg, post-apartheid South Africa, the film depicts the dramatic life of a young thug named Tsotsi, who shoots up and steals the car of a middle-class African woman, unwittingly 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 in its historical and cultural context in order to compare and contrast how the film depicts the rich and the poor. Say no to plagiarism. Get a tailor-made essay on 'Why Violent Video Games Should Not Be Banned'?Get the original essayThe featured sequence begins with Tsotsi and his friends, Butcher, Boston and Aap, all coming out of Tsotsi's rundown apartment with the zoom of the camera. and shows us an extremely long shot of the slums. Afterwards, the three are walking down the road as they cross paths with an individual who appears to be enjoying himself, sitting atop his luxury car, surrounded by many people. The man shouts something at Tsotsi and Tsotsi pushes him away and continues walking without even turning to look at him. The film then cuts another cut 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 out showing us a billboard with the slogan "We are all affected by AIDS" Tsotsi and his friends suddenly stop walking in the middle of the station and look around observing various people until Tsotsi looks at a older black man buying a tie and being well dressed. Tsotsi and his friends follow him and end up getting on the metro with him, Aap is the first to approach him without doing anything as if he was standing there then the rest of the group follows him after having all surrounded him, they turn to him saying ask him to be quiet, the man looks confused and starts to panic but before he can make any noise Butcher stabs him with a pickaxe, not necessarily a knife. The group then holds him while they pick his pockets and as the subway train empties they drop the man and escape the area and they are left with an image of the man lying alone in the train, lifeless. The film then cuts to them standing by the stairs with Boston vomiting after killing the old man and then they watch them at a bar drinking and Boston has gotten drunk and can't hold back his emotions and is talking about how They were wrong and Tsotsi needs to learn decency. Viewers are immediately intrigued by the contrast between the high-rise buildings and townships of Soweto, communicating the reality of life in the “Golden City”. This is conveyed in the opening scene by an extremely long shot, in which Hood captures the realistic images of the ghetto slums, depicting the economic difference between the rich and the poor, repeatedly. This is also depicted when Tsotsi and the other gang members are introduced to the corrugated iron shack, which stands in strange contrast to John and Pumla's middle-class family home later in the film. The producer therefore showed the real contrasts between the realistic stereotypes that many people like Tsotsi are forced into..