Sarafina!
Movie • 1992
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The plot centers on students involved in the Soweto Riots, in opposition to the implementation of Afrikaans as the language of instruction in schools. The stage version presents a school uprising similar to the Soweto uprising on June 16, 1976. A narrator introduces several characters among them the school girl activist Sarafina. Things get out of control when a policeman shoots several pupils in a classroom. Nevertheless, the musical ends with a cheerful farewell show of pupils leaving school, which takes most of act two. In the movie version Sarafina feels shame at her mother's (played by Miriam Makeba in the film) acceptance of her role as domestic servant in a white household in apartheid South Africa, and inspires her peers to rise up in protest, especially after her inspirational teacher, Mary Masombuka (played by Whoopi Goldberg in the film version) is imprisoned.
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Police use animals to attack students which many people see as animal abuse, also abuse of children
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Them movie is centered around an uprising of students that are arrested, shot at, and tortured under Apartheid. The students describe it in detail and it's extremely upsetting
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Sarafina gets flirted with by an older man, though it never goes farther than that
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Does a kid die?
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Multiple kids die
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Someone is attacked by a dog which results in a leg wound that is briefly shown onscreen. Many people are shot and have visible wounds from it. Very distressing.
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Does it have a sad ending?
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Very sad but optimistic
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A group of students pour gasoline on an officer and burn an him alive
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Police threaten to leave a abandon a disabled character to die
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A man flirts with a woman younger than her but it never goes farther than that
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Is there a mental institution scene?
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There are several distressing prison scenes
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Does someone break a bone?
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People are severely beaten but no bones are seen breaking on screen
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Is there gun violence?
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A LOT!!
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Is there hate speech?
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The movie takes place during Apartheid in Africa
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Students recount being beaten in prison, PTSD isn't explicitly stated but it's definitely disturbing
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Prison cells could potentially be claustrophobic
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Does the black guy die first?
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White people killing black people throughout the movie, many of the black people being very young
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Students are kidnapped from their homes and arrested
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Does someone fall to their death?
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Someone commits suicide by jumping out a window offscreen
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