1. GCSE PAPER 2
EXPLORING FILM OUTSIDE HOLLYWOOD
TSOTSI (GAVIN HOOD, 2005)
REVISION CHECK LIST
1. Can you describe one important setting or location in the film?
- Can you describe how that setting or location relates to themes or issues in the film?
- Can you comment on what the theme suggests to audiences?
2. Can you identify one theme of issue in the film?
- Can you describe what the film suggests about that theme or issue?
- Can you talk about a key sequence that explores that theme or issue?
3. Can you name and describe one important character?
- Can you discuss how your first impression of the character created?
- Can you talk about a key scene where this character appears and explain how the scene
is important to the film’s narrative?
- Can you discuss how far the character changes over the course of the film?
- Can you name a character that this character is in conflict with and discuss when this
conflict is shown?
4. Can you discuss how one of the following is represented in a key sequence?
- Age
- Gender
- Ethnicity
- Social class
- disability
5. Are you able to write at least 1 A4 sheet about the film, encouraging others to go and see
it - including the following in your writing:
- Themes and issues the film raises
- Difference and/ or similarities between Tsotsi and mainstream Hollywood films
- The role of micro features in your chosen film
- What you think of the film
- Whether the film has changed your view of particular people or places