The Power of One

The Power of One

The movie “The Power of One” was very eye opening and emotional for me. It made me realize how bad the apartheid really was in South Africa and how many people were affected by it.

The main character in “The Power of One” is a boy named Peekay. The movie showed the life of this fictional character during the apartheid and emphasized on the parts in his life that were the hardest for him, witch for Peekay was most of his life. There were many parts in the movie that were hard for me to watch, most of the parts that were hard for me to watch happened when Peekay was a child. One of witch is when a group of Afrikaner boys at his school tied him up and tried to kill him just because he was an English boy.

“The Power of One” reminds me a lot of the movie “Hotel Rwanda” that we saw in Global Ed earlier on in this semester. Like in “Hotel Rwanda”, how cruel some people were to others surprised me greatly, epically since before I saw this movie I did not think that the apartheid was as harsh as it turned out to be.

Before I saw this film I imagined South Africa to mainly be inhibited by black Africans and not to have many Dutch or British inhabitants in it, but I was proven to be wrong after watching “The Power of One” because it turns out that South Africa is very diverse with different ethnicities.