The Wooden Camera (2003)

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Predictable. Such a shame really but that doesn't necessarily mean it's a bad film. Just not surprising. Actually it entertained me enough to watch the whole thing and I have to admit I wasn't completely sure how it would turn out. I think that was mainly because I didn't expect them to do what they did, seeing as the characters were so young.
The acting however was on the mediocre side al... read more

Two 14-year-old boys, Madiba and Sipho, are playing on the railway line that runs around the Khayelitsha township in South Africa when a body is hurled from a passing train. Inside the dead guy's luggage the kids find a gun and a video camera. Sipho takes the revolver and Madiba the camera, which he hides inside a wooden box to avoid being asked about it as he kicks around filming his environment. With his status enhanced by ownership of the pistol, Sipho becomes a township gang leader before ascending to the bigger game in Cape Town. Guns and butter, guns and cameras. Does the tool shape the destiny of the man?