PPT-Tsotsi

About the author Athol Fugard South African playwright novelist actor and director best known for his political plays opposing apartheid Born in Middleburg in the Eastern cape and studied at UCT. Morris. By . Kiara. , Sophie . AND OLIVIA. Main Actions. Yells at . Tsotsi. at the train station and spits at his feet. Tsotsi. becomes angry and follows Morris into dark alleyways. Morris offers . Messages & Values. Escapism is evident in all 4 films that we have studied. Each film uses different characters in order to highlight the desire to escape their situation of dire poverty:. City of God: . Director: Mathieu Kassovitz. Released: 1995. Stars: Vincent Cassel, Hubert Kounde and Said Taghmaoui (Stars kept their first names for the characters). Black and white film, based around one day in the life of the three main protagonists.. . . Mrs Borain. The setting. Young black men in Johannesburg’s townships, . entranced by 1940s American gangster films. , adopted their dress-sense along with their contempt for law and order. . . . Mrs Borain. The setting. Young black men in Johannesburg’s townships, . entranced by 1940s American gangster films. , adopted their dress-sense along with their contempt for law and order. . . . Mrs Borain. The setting. Young black men in Johannesburg’s townships, . entranced by 1940s American gangster films. , adopted their dress-sense along with their contempt for law and order. . DIE APP. Main Actions Throughout the Film. Throughout the film, Die App is a very laid back guy, he seems to do a lot of the easy tasks like distracting and keeping watch while Butcher and Tsotsi commit the crimes. He opens the bottles of beer with his teeth for the boys but doesn’t drink them. He seems to be a bit of a kiss-ass, but it seems as though he likes the way everything is..