Catch a Fire (2006)

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

The acting in this movie is really good.

I've seen a few films from this era focused on the topic. Few of those had the impact of this film. As well, I feel it has relevance today.The overall theme, is how do 'normal' people 'wake-up' and consider radical or revolutionary action? Where do (so called) home-grown radicals come from? If we assume babies are born more-or-less innocent(??) What happens? More to the point, in the context of this particular film; why does NOT happen? We play football, we have some drinks, dance at a wedding, etc. Life is good. And sometimes; something-happens.There's a huge ethical question too... When is it OK to be bad, to do good? Is it 'ok(??)' to be 'evil' and feel you are a hero!? You my say, 'No...'; sometimes it will depend. Sometimes history is the decision maker.Watch the movie ... Pray you don't need to make these choices.

Vos says:"Between you and me Patrick,apartheid cannot last -25 million blacks, 3 million white people". In the time in which movie takes place there was 5 million whites in South Africa, 3 million remained today. Movie also does not depict in detail white civillains suffering from ANC. Movie portrays ANC actions against property-factories ,railways and similar. It does not mentions actions against white civilians for example http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Street_bombing Only in one place Vos's daughter mentions that her friends parents were killed at sleep. It also does not say anything about ANC detention camps where people were tortured and executed without trial: http://www.doj.gov.za/trc/report/finalreport/TRC%20VOLUME%202.pdf Throughout the movie "they took our land" cry can be heard. It is worth remembering that blacks are not the oldest inhabitants of South Africa, the Bushmen are the oldest. They were displaced and massacred from South Africa by Bantu tribes.

I thought story was very entertaining and seemed accurate (I wasn't there) but I disagreed with former comment that Tim Robbins wasn't (or whites in general) racist. The fact that blacks were routinely and deliberately treated as virtually "sub-human" would seem to indicate that the culture in general was RACIST. Adolph Ikeman espoused he was doing "his job" - he wasn't anti Semitic, they just happened to be Jewish!?! Anyway, it is a very good film and the cinematography was excellent - way to go Ron F. I thought the main characters were given their own flaws, just as real people are not all good or bad, and therefore influenced their actions and consequences to themselves & others.

I am not a historian and I know little about apartheid in South Africa. However in this movie we find that Patrick Chamusso is a real person and that most of the story in this movie really happened the way it is told. A good movie, with high production values.Tim Robbins is Colonel Nic Vos, and he sounds authentic with either an Irish or South African accent. He is a member of the ruling white government and always on the watch for revolutionists.American Derek Luke is believable as Patrick Chamusso, a humble refinery worker with a family and who is wrongly suspected of being a revolutionist. Torturing him for names, which he cannot give, they also end up mistreating his wife, Bonnie Mbuli as Precious Chamusso. This angers him, makes him fully realize the need to combat apartheid, and he leaves home to train with the revolutionists.The movie is often not fun to watch because of the themes depicted, but it has a favorable ending, and we see one of the freedom fighters who helped end apartheid in the early 1990s.