The cold appears and there’s nothing better than coming home from work or waiting for the weekend to see a good movie under the sheets, right, on second thought, this month we’re doing a special of the best photo movies ever released. Talk a little bit about the Canadian film War Reporters directed by Steven Silver.
War Reporters, a 2010 movie? Based on the biographical book?The Bang-Bang Club: Snapshots of a Hidden War?presents Taylor Kitsch and Ryan Phillipe in a true story of a group made up of photojournalists Ken Oosterbroek, Kevin Carter, Joo Silva and Greg Marinovich (the latter two authors of the book on which the film is based) who are responsible for covering the first African women’s election after apartheid in 1994 , at the risk of dying and witnessing the misery of the African people.
- The film begins at the end: a journalist from a radio show asks photographer Kevin Carter several times if he had saved the boy who was about to be devoured by a vulture.
- Pulitzer Prize.
From there, the film begins to tell the story of the beginning and contextualizes the succession of facts and facts that the group of photographers goes through.
Their job is to capture photographs for the newspaper they work for that reflect the moment of tension in the country. The film’s big question is precisely the position of the press amid the chaos and the way it portrays the confrontation.
In War Reporters we see that death is captured closely by photographers, who look more like scavenger vultures and need to record what happened, but take a position of impartiality, without getting involved in what is happening.
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Original name: The Bang Bang Club (2010)
Director: Steven Silver
Writer: Greg Marinovich
Music: Philip Miller
Cast: Ryan Phillippe, Taylor Kitsch, Malin Akerman, Frank Rautenbach, Russell Savadier
Duration: 106min