1. Aim: How does the film, Tsotsi, convey its themes?

2. How are the following explored?
Mothers
Clothes
Crippled Dog
Identity
Money
Needs money to send the teacher back to school – goes back to the rich peopleʼs house - Gives the cripple money – offers Miriam money but she refuses
Movie open with Tsotsi bare chested – Black Hoodie when he is a thug, White shirt when trying to redeem
The mothers are all shown to be nurturing but also in distress – David’s mother dying, Miriam being threatened with a gun, the baby’s mother being shot
Picks on the old man because his dad crippled his dog – wonders how the old man can go on as a cripple – Tsotsi an emotional cripple
Names baby, David, after himself, Boston is called Teacher Man but never passed the exam

3. What does the film suggest about decency through the following scenes?
Miriam
Boston
Man in the Wheelchair
Baby
What do these people teach Tsotsi?