Film Review: Goodbye Bafana

1.- In general, what did you like and dislike about the film?

I really liked this film. I dont know how faithful is to the real story, due to the complexity to understand the relationship between Mandela and Gregory now they're gone, but I liked to see this side of the story. I think the acting were great too, Joseph Fieness as James Gregory really achieved to show the internal struggle, this fight with himeslf and the doubt about what is right and what is not. 

Maybe the only thing I didn't like much about the film, was how the flashbacks were used. They showed an essential moment to James Gregory, but I think they didnt have the emotional impact it could have had.


2.- Who was the chracater you liked the most and the character you liked the least in the film? Why?

I think the character I liked the most is Mandela, but because Mandela is such a good character hahaha. I like wise characters, and Mandela seems to know everything about everything in every moment. It's interesting to see his time in prision more in detail and from a perspective of a "third person" and not being the protagonist.

The character I liked the least was Gloria. She was so superficial and cared so much about what the other people thought, added to the despicable of her sight of the black people. But I really hated her indefference to think about the problem; she didnt medidate or anything, she just hated the black people and this was normal to her, so she even tried to make her children thought the same way.


3.- How do de versions of James Gregory, Nelson Mandela and Winnie Mandela compare between Goodbye Bafana and Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom?

Starting with James Greogry, we get to see a lot more of him in this movie. In Long Walk to Freedom, he is such a secondary character that I would never had imagine he could be someone that important in Mandela's life. Though again, maybe he wasn't, but we don't know. 
I think the essence of the character of Nelson Mandela doesn't change much between one film to another, but I liked more the acting in Long Walk to Freedom, but well, is Idris Elba we're talking about. Also, in that movie we get to see a more intimate side of Mandela we don't see in this film. 
Finally, Winnie Mandela change a lot between the films, principally because in Goodbye Bafana we barely see her, just in a couple scenes and all of them in function to tell something about Nelson or James Gregory. In Long Walk to Freedom this doesn't happen; Winnie is a character as important as Nelson and we see her as a completely independent woman, who ended up buliding her own revolution aside from her husband.