The Bang Bang Club

Bringing to viewers the minutest details from the infamous Apartheid Era of South Africa, through the eyes of four photographers is the movie - The Bang Bang Club.

This movie entails their near heroic commitment to their jobs, in the face of relentless gunfire and cold-blooded murder. It retells the events of the last days of the revolution that put an end to Apartheid. It entails the widespread chaos on the streets, with the pro-apartheid forces clashing with Mandela’s African National Congress. The four photographers; Greg Marinovich, Joao Silva, Kvein Carter and Ken Oosterbroek remained in the warzone in South Africa and covered incidents, mainly the revolutionary elections, in the apartheid-free South Africa. Their efforts helped the truth behind the Apartheid Era; come to the forefront, for the entire world to see. The four photographers went to places where no man would dare to, and captured photos of the atrocities committed by both sides in the Apartheid Era. Photo-journalism never touched such a high as it did from the lens of these four friends, and The Bang Bang Club brings to audience an almost exact description of the happenings.

The movie plot is acutely realistic, portraying the mayhem and violence that unfolded on the streets of South Africa. The horror and gory violence that shook the very fundamentals of humanity and the dark face of Apartheid, forms the crux of this movie. The Bang Bang Club is a movie, which makes for an absolutely necessary watch for all the movie buffs.