剧情介绍
1995年，美国黑人记者朗斯顿·惠特菲尔德去南非采访“真理及和解”委员会，这是前圣公会大主教迪斯蒙·图图领导的种族隔离调查组织，他们听证的目的不仅是要弄清楚那些野蛮的犯罪，还要与受害者一起与种族主义者作斗争。在这期间，他结识了一位南非白人女记者安娜·马兰，她也正在为电台做听证会报道。两人在种族隔离时代的尾声中，开始了一段黑白恋情。
Langston Whitfield is a Washington Post journalist. His editor provocatively sends him to South Africa to cover the Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings, in which the perpetrators of murder and torture on both sides during Apartheid are invited to come forward and confront their victims. By telling the unvarnished truth and expressing contrition, they may be granted amnesty. Can the deep wounds of Apartheid be healed through reconciliation? Langston is deeply skeptical. He tracks down Col. De Jager, the most notorious torturer in the SA Police and tries to penetrate the mind of a monster, an experience that obliges him to confront his own demons. Anna Malan is an Afrikaans poet who is covering the hearings for radio. As a white South African she is shattered by the accounts of the cruelty and depravity committed by her fellow countrymen. Anna and Langston must both question their sense of identity. Where do they each belong? How responsible are they for what is done in the name of their respective countries? The moving testimony of the victims affects them deeply. In different ways they are both estranged from their families, and their shared experience draws them ever closer to each other. It is a story charting the unfathomable depths of human cruelty and the redeeming power of forgiveness and love.
一般略过。
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开场歌曲中唱到「黑人之罪乃为黑人（身份）」，因此影片主题在于其背面——「白人（某个种族/种群）是否要全体承担某种（种族）屠杀/迫害的责任」，白人记者与黑人记者（美国裔）的交往与整个「真相与坦白」之旅是一种宽恕与谅解的过程（有趣的是这种谅解事实上只存在与个体交往，一旦涉及到集体则不复存在），关键在于世界上是否存在真正的无辜，在「黑白冲突」这点上电影处理得非常缓和，甚至不如于最后黑人音响师因为「叛徒」被同族人灭口来到更有思考性。
头骨在歌唱。
一場場真相審訊會所串起的南非公路電影。難得的政治題材、難得的黑白配 (山繆傑克森與茱麗葉畢諾許)，但整體並不出采。除了有一幕黑人小孩原諒祕密警察非常動人之外，其他就只是單純想用愛情包裹種族議題而已，甚至毫無高潮迭起，簡直失敗。
如果两年前看到还会感动，现在被欧美白左们折腾得无感了。
40岁的比诺什，晒的发亮的皮肤，一样美的我肝儿颤。
种族歧视，这是个永远说不完的话题。
不断地控诉曼德拉之前南非白人统治者的暴政，控诉到最后男女主人公控诉到床上去了……朱丽叶比诺什这次演得有点过，尤其在法庭上失控大笑的场景，不知导演为什么这样设计，感觉不太真实。
[视]cctv6，艺术影院，国语，95min
这是我看过的唯一一部关于南非种族隔离的电影，因为不了解那段历史，所以也不妄加评论。该片虽在大方向上是保持国际主流基调的，然而在很多细节上则表现出了历史的多面性，没有单一地去判定是非，值得称赞。
女主女神。视角，真实
比较难入手……
有长影评