The movie would have been great had it not been so sympathetic to the murderous Marxist ANC. It was a great movie until I saw some fat Soviet agent giving these misguided Africans orders on how to de-stablize South Africa.
Arpatheid was evil, but replacing it with a Marxist regime(which thankfully never materialized) is not exactly a good avenue to follow either.
While the western nations preached "constructive engagement" with the Apartheid regime, the Soviets wanted to tear it down, period. So of course, the SACP took a leading role in the anti-Apartheid struggle. But it was interesting how the role of the Communist Party was ignored. The unwritten rule is "Communists cannot do any good". Apparently, to violate this rule is still considered treason. One can make a movie romanticizing defenders of slavery (i.e. the Confederate States of America) but God forbid you should show Reds or the USSR in any positive light! It's not their fault that the capitalist democracies pussy-footed with racism while the Communists actively fought to tear it down.
Meanwhile, the Apartheid regime gave plenty of orders to their own misguided Africans (e.g. RENAMO and UNITA), who then showed Mozambique and Angola what REAL "de-stabilization" was!
Post-apartheid South Africa has followed the "neo-liberal" path, but the majority of the Black masses are as poor and powerless as ever before. They feel voiceless now that the ANC has become capitalist and the SACP can't come up with a viable alternative.
edw-yoo stole the words right out of my mouth. Replacing it with a Marxist regime actually WOULD have been better, as it was in Thomas Sankara's Burkina Faso, Samora Machel's Mozambique, Kwame Nkrumah's Ghana, Agostinho Neto's Angola, etc. It's abundantly clear that borgeois-democratic capitalism has ravaged the contient just as throughly as minority rule and apartheid did decades ago, perhaps even more so.
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