Tsotsi Questions
Roll again... Roll again...
- Eleven! - Eleven?
Nine.
- Tsotsi is a 2005 South African and United Kingdom co-production film about a Johannesburg township gangster Tsotsi who is struggling with his longing for fatherly love. He is on a journey of survival and redemption from his childhood while experiencing the social classism and poverty of the post-apartheid period. It was originally a novel.
- Questions have also made Tsotsi feel fearful because he cannot answer them. It suggests that Boston is taken by surprise. He has no time to plan his fall or to sidestep the kick.
- What? - 4 and 5 is 9 not 11.
It's good! It's good. 4 and 5 is 9 not eleven!
Throw again, brother.
Boston in this scene yells and questions Tsotsi on his motives. The camera focuses on Boston and Tsotsi’s faces, Boston facail expressions show that he is upset and guilty of what had happened, while Tsotsi kept a blank and emotionless face. Tsotsi does not. Tsotsi runs away into the night and tries literally to flee from his past that he feels is coming back. What the young man does not know is that this is the beginning of a journey into his past. 3 www.tsotsi.com Tsotsi the Film Synopsis 4 www.tsotsi.com Press Centre The Term “Tsotsi”.
- That's enough. - Hey Tsotsi, what we doing tonight?
Yea, what we doing?
The little gangster!
Did you learn to drive?
I was sick. So what?
- Come sit teacher boy. - F*ck
off i'm not your teacher boy.
You know you went too far tonight.
What's your name Tsotsi?
Your real name. Thug, Tsotsi. it's not a name.
- Boston, don't ask him questions. - Why not?
Tsotsi Questions And Answers
I'm six months with you. I want to know his name.
Everyone has a name. A real one. From his mother.
- Hey, Soekie, we're dry here.
- I'll come when I'm ready, ok?
Decency Tsotsi? Do you know that word? Decency.
I had a bit of it, thats why i got sick.
And that fat man with the tie, he had a lot. And now?
He's dead.
Jesus, Butcher go get it yourself.
I'm trying to talk seriously here.
Come sit sonny.
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Just remember... I don't want any trouble in here.
What's wrong? Are you sick again?
Jesus!
Tonight Tsotsi...
When we killed the fat man...
I felt like this inside me...
Do you ever feel like that?
For a woman Tsotsi? Maybe you had a woman.
For a woman Tsotsi? Maybe you had a woman.
And when she left you... It hurt...
And you bled...
Your father... Your father Tsotsi... Where's your father?
Where's your father and your mother...
Jesus, Tsotsi. A dog. What about a dog?
Tell that bastardnever to come here again.
John! John! Open the gate!
The remote isn't working. Open the gate!
Stop!
Tsotsi Book Questions And Answers
Yes, that's the registration...
Just tell them the car is empty. No baby.
Jesus, you stink!
Quiet, baby!
Quiet!
- Yes what? - It's us.
- Who? - Aap and Butcher.
Tsotsi Essay Questions And Answers
- We need to talk. - About what?
About Boston.
- Where is he? - At Soekie's.
- He won't work with us anymore.
- Says who? You or him?
What's that? That smell.
- It's me. - What's wrong?
I'm sick.
- You need a doctor. - I'm fine.
Hey sister. Feed him. Come feed him here.
If you got no milk, let him suck me.
- What are we doingtonight Tsotsi?
- Let's meet later at Park Station.
Later's good. Meet you later then.
Hey man! Did you smell? Stinks like shit!
Were there any fingerprints?
This bastard is a nodody.
He went at the township you said.
- Sir, we can't even trackstolen cars...
- Don't tell me what you can't do!
I want you to find my child.
When my wife wakes up, I want my
child right next to her. Am I clear?
Where is Tsotsi?
- F*ck him. - Yea, f*ck him.
Hey, watchwhere the f*ck you're going.
Dog!
Now what? You want me to say sorry?
Watch where you put your feet. Move!
Hey what's up Bheki!
- Who won? - Irish fancy, brother. 7 to 2.
- Cripple donkey! - Did you win anything?
- Win? F*ck all! - Put a 1 00 at red bullet tommorow.
Red bullet got no legs. Silver lightning!
Don't take too much!
Where is this guy?
Where did you get your driver's licence?
Did your motherteach you to drive?
What do you want, boy?
Do you want my money?
- Stand up. - What?
- Get up and walk. - Who are you, Jesus Christ?
- I'm a cripple. - You lie. Stand up.
Go to hell.
Fine. Here's all the money I have.
What you want from me? Take
the money and leave me alone.
F*ck man! F*ck you!
You fucking bastard!
Are you happy now?
You made an old man piss in his pants.
Why are you following me? Why?
I saw a dog once...
Two kicks... And it's back was broken.
It crawled... Just like you...
What kind of a man kicks a dog?
What happened to your legs?
I was working at the mines. Digging gold.
A beam fell on me. It broke me.
Why do you go on... when you live like a dog?