A Dry White Season (1989)

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A Dry White Season (1989) is an drama movies directed by by Euzhan Palcy and featuring Donald Sutherland, Jürgen Prochnow, Marlon Brando, Janet Suzman, Zakes Mokae and Susan Sarandon.anet Suzman, Zakes Mokae and Susan Sarandon. It was composed by Colin Welland and Palcy, in light of André Brink's tale A Dry White Season. It is set in South Africa in 1976 and manages the subject of politically-sanctioned racial segregation.[1]

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Plot

Caucasian Ben du Toit was brought into the world in South Africa, weds Susan, has a child, Johan, and educates to make money. During the 1980s, the public authority proclaims a highly sensitive situation, captures and torments a huge number of black residents, even as young as eleven-years of age.

Stanley, the child of his grounds-keeper, is captured and consequently murdered by the Police while purportedly attempting to run away. This sudden death arouses his suspicions, he decides to probe into this matter and ensure that no one gets away with murder. This sudden death brings out his suspicions, he chooses to test into this matter and guarantee that nobody pulls off murder. Little does he understand that soon he will be addressed as "traitor" by individuals of his own race.[2]

Empowerment

Ben Du Toit, a South African–born school teacher who is compelled to face the truth of his racial advantage when the child of his Black grounds-keeper is severely beaten by white cops. He unites with a local activist, Stanley; a lawyer; and a journalist to uncover the dangerous police commander. The white protagonist delivers subversive messages messages about complicity and advantage; yet eventually, author chief Euzhan Palcy allows her Black hero have the last word. Anti-police protests emitted around the world over police killings innocent Black women and men. In Hollywood, in the mid 1980s, Palcy was one of the lone Black voices.[3]

Controversy

The movie is educative because people ignore what white men did to the blacks at that time and even recently. Nowadays, colored people endure discrimination in many countries even if apartheid, slavery have been abolished, so it is a very interesting film, it shows a real and current problem : racism which still exists in society. [2]

Ben wife's who has a racist behaviour recognize what could happen after she knews about the policy are pictured on this dialogue:

Ben du Toit: Jesus, Susan, this is not just about Gordon! This is about all of us!

Susan du Toit: No. It's about all of *them*. And I will be damned if I let them destroy my family. I don't want Gordon's ghost in my house! I don't want the one with the dark glasses, any of these kaffirs here ever again! I just want to go back to the way it was!

Ben du Toit: If you had come with me... if you had seen what was happening in that court, you would know that we can never go back to the way it was.

Susan du Toit: I *was* in the court.

Ben du Toit: What?

Susan du Toit: Listen to me, Ben. I heard what the police did, and I'm not saying it was right. But you think the blacks wouldn't do the same thing to us, and worse, if they had half the chance? Do you think they'll let us go on living our nice, quiet, peaceful lives if they win? They'll swallow us up! It's our country, Ben, we made every inch of it! Look at the rest of Africa, it's a mess... It's like in war. You have to choose sides. You are not one of them and they don't want you to be!

(Palcy, 1989)[4]

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