there be a great film to be make about steve biko . sadly this wasn not it . denzel washington never the most flexible of actor be totally unable to convey the great charisma that biko have . attenborough big crowd scene be laughable . the soweto massacre wasn not like this and three neat line of child ( some do cartwheel . ) march happily into the gun of the soldier . with biko dead the film rapidly descend into farce . if the struggle against apartheid be anything it be a black people struggle yet somehow we be all suppose to be grip by the escape of a white man and his family . i be sure donald wood be a decent man and he would be the first to say that biko be important while he wasn not . penelope wilton accent be pure hampshire and she seem completely unaware that she be in south africa at all . at all . the wood family dog get more line than the black maid . a the family make their escape one the woman i saw the film with incidentally one of only about a dozen black people in a large and full cinema whisper this be like the sound of music . she have a point . overall this be a film by a well intentioned if somewhat inept white liberal about a radical black people struggle . and really south africa need well intentioned white liberal like it need a hole in the head .