The Power of One

The Power of One

Brief Summary of the movie:

The movie is about the incredible, moving story about a young boy, PK, who endured hardship and much adversity in order to do what he thought was right. The movie is set in South Africa, between the 1930s to 1950s, a time when black people and white people were treated differently and not as equals. PK goes through much adversity, losing his mother, going to boarding school and being harshly mistreated for being English, going to prison with a friend as the friend did not sign up as a soldier in the war, losing a good friend and teacher, losing a lover for trying to make things right, having his refuge because he ‘mixed’ with other races and losing many of his great friends and acquaintances along the way. PK did not believe there was a difference between blacks and whites and he spent most of his time with the good natured native, dark skinned South Africans.  The movie explores the themes of racism, self realisation, oppression, power and leadership and can be quite confronting and moving to the audience.

So many terrible things that happened to the main character, PK, it made me realise that problems in my life which seem huge and are actually tiny compared to what some people have been through or are going through. One of the interesting scenes was when PK was trying to teach the black people English, it started off well until the German soldiers found out and came into the school and confronted one of the teachers, ordering the school to stop letting these lessons run. The teachers and  scholars had no power over the soldiers, no one did, whatever the soldiers demanded they got, no matter how wrong or cruel.