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Skin is a British-South African biography-drama movie about Sandra Laing. Directed by Anthony Fabian this 107 minutes film tells about her life as a kid who has white parents yet she doesn't resemble her parents. This film delivered on 24 July 2008 (United Kingdom) featuring

  • Sophie Okonedo as Sandra Laing
  • Sam Neill as Abraham Laing
  • Alice Krige as Sannie Laing
  • Hannes Brummer as Leon Laing

Plot

Ten-year-old Sandra has a unique African look. Her parents, Abraham and Sannie, were white Afrikaners, ignorant of their black ancestry. They are shop owners in the distant territory of Eastern Transvaal, and despite the mixed-race appearance of Sandras, they compassionately brought her up as their white little girl. Sandra is sent to boarding school in the close by town of Piet Retief, where her (white) sibling Leon is also studying, yet the parents and instructors complains that she is not accepted. It is aexamined by State officials, renamed as Colored, and expelled  from school. Sandra's fparents are stunned, yet Abraham battles through the courts to invert the order. The story turns into  an international scandal and media pressure forces the law to change, so Sandra becomes officially White again.

When she was 17, Sandra understood that she could never be acknowledged by the white community. She falls in love for Petrus, a black man, a neighborhood vegetable merchant, and starts an illegal relationship. Abraham is threatening to shoot Petrus and abandon Sandra. Sannie is conflicted between her husband's anger and her upset daughter. Sandra runs off with Petrus to Swaziland. Abraham alarms the police, captures them, and places them in prison. Sandra has been advised by the local magistrate to return home, yet she refuses.

In the end Sandra should carry on with her life, for the first time, as black woman in South Africa with no running water, no sanitation, and little pay. She and Petrus have two children, and despite the fact that she feels more comfortable, she desperately misses her parents and yearns for a reunion.[1]

Black Racism

Sandra and her white parents

The movie shows how in apartheid-era South Africa how race meant everything. She doesn't get equity and classified “colored”  despite the fact that her parents were white.[2] There is a scene when she was 10 and hauled out of school by the police because the principal concluded she wasn't white. The public authority concurred and relabeled her “colored". It's terrible to the point that the body turned into a sort of tablet on which oppressive laws were composed. Her skin, her nose, her lips were all under assessment. A man sticks a pencil to Sandra's short hair, a re-formation of the "pencil test" utilized by some administration to pass judgment on race. If the pencil pencil remained in, the individual was considered black.[3] This film likewise potrays that one could be associated in committing crimes by dealing with black people. Since she is officially  consider white it is a wrongdoing under apartheid for her to live with a black man.[4]


Reference

  1. Synopsis. Imdb. Retrieved January 20, 2021
  2. Janet Guttsman. Movie shows apartheid's cruelty and contradictions. Reuters. SEPTEMBER 12, 2008. Retrieved Janury 20, 2021
  3. Manohla Dargis. White to Colored and Back Again in Apartheid’s Maze. Nytimes. Oktober 29, 2009. Retrieved January 20, 2021
  4. Roger Ebert. Cry, the beloved daughter: the black child of white parents. Rogerebert. November 11, 2009. Retrieved January 20, 2021