TSOTSI (2005, SOUTH AFRICA)

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I knew what this movie was about going it-a young street tough learns humility by finding a baby in a car after one of his crimes. But after seeing what this punk does early on in this film (including killing an innocent man on the subway) I figured that there was no way that I was going to feel anything but contempt for Tsotsi. But Yet somehow Tsotsi somehow manages to morph into a movie where you care about the characters, even the title character, which we can give credit partly to director Gavin Hood, lead actor Presly Chweneyagae and that little baby.