The Power of One Film Review
“Little beat big when little smart. First with the head, then with the heart.” This describes perfectly the attitude of The Power of One. It revolves around a young boy facing hardship and triumph in the harsh and racially unjust nation of South Africa. It all begins appealingly enough with a brave and contemplative performance from Guy Witcher as the main character in the film, a fair-haired boy nicknamed PK who is sent to an Afrikaner boarding school where he's tortured as the only English boy amongst the hate-mongering, Afrikaner schoolboys, whose idol, in the years before World War Two, is Hitler. The junior neo-Nazis are led by a bully with a swastika tattooed on his arm, and when that same tattooed arm turns up attached to a bullying officer of the state security force, the movie started to get lost. These scenes are meant to show the lasting resentment
PK has two major mentors during the film. Armin Mueller-Stahl, also known as Doc, a German friend of PK’s grandfather, teaches him about the cultural and academic side of life. His acting ability was good, and was an all round performance, but was eclipsed by Morgan Freeman’s performance as Geel Pete, PK’s second mentor and boxing instructor, who’s brilliant ability and style breathed new life into the film. Another classy performance by an actor in the movie is that of Stephen Dorff, who plays an 18-year-old PK, who more or less boxes his way into the hearts of the black South Africans. At this point he is a year prior to heading to university, and Stephen Dorff plays out the character as though it were he himself who was teaching the native Africans to read and write English, and beating the living daylights out of his opponents in the boxing ring. Some mino
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