If I Can Raise Myself

Tsotsi, the winner of 78th Academy Awards, makes me a shocking in my heart.Johannesburg, South Africa in a town near the capital as the background of the film , it tells us  the story of a local Tsotsi gang-leaders in six days of change. A stormy night, for robbing a mob in dispute with killing the conflict,tsotsi hit his partener and ran away, Then he shot and wounded Pumla and drive her car away. In driving speed, he heard a baby's cry, he drove into a sparsely populated place, found in the left baby,he did not leave the baby alone,  he brought the baby home, learn to take care of her, and even threat Miriam,a young mother ,to feeds the baby as his son . In order to solve the problem, he robbed to the baby's father with his complices,but at last he shot his partner to save baby's father and take all the stuff of baby's instead of money and jewelry. finally, with Miriam's maternal ,Tsotsi was moved ,his good recovery, and the baby was returned to the parents of the baby.

     At the first of the film,  i saw tsotsi kill the man and hit his complice,shot the woman and get the car, i thought he is incorrigible, but when he take him home otherthan leave him, and do his best to take care of him. i believe he is goodness in his heart. and the baby is the angel, who make him revived.
tsotsi is lonely and scared, when he hit his complice, he ran away, running in the wilderness at the stormy night, we saw the same scene happened when he was a little boy , little tsotsi also running with feary, we kown he had a sad story in his childhood, and it still affecting him now. tsotsi is not an orphan, but he lived like an orphan.His mum have been diagnosed with HIV, and his dad drinking, he was forbidden to contract with his mum, so he only have his dog to keep company, but his father's hard kick made the dog disabled, also leave the mental wounds to little tsotsi, so tsotsi ran away.He prefer to live in the cement pipeline like other gamins, and looking for his spiritual parents. so now i can understand his losing temper to his complice, boston touched the scar on his heart, his parents.

teotsi is goodness and responsible, he took the baby home and try to feed him and make him comfort, he try to be a father, when he realise his son need breast milk, he find Miriam, he threat miriam to feed“ his son”. I think in his mind he complained his parents and imagine himself as a father, he will take care of his baby very well. but as we know, he is a poor tsotsi, he can not provide a well Material conditions to his baby, so he chose to rob the baby's real home with his two complices-Butcher and Aap.It's funny that the other two robber take what they want, money and food. but tsotsi don't, he went to the baby's room,sitting there in a daze. and take all the stuff of baby's but money.It surprise to me that tsotsi shot to Butcher when jhon was going to be killed.But finally I knew that his is protecting his spirital father.Tsotsi came back to Miriam to show his stuff and money, but Miriam told him that he can not give baby a healthy mother back any more,baby needs mum and dad.At this time,Tsotsi knew that baby needs not only martial,but also love from parents, which he did not have in his childhood.

   I was totally moved by the ending,Painful Tsotsi carryed the baby to the door, he rang the doorbell, told the baby was sent back, he waited for the parents came up other than just ran away, and when the baby was scared by the police, he took the baby in his arm  with kindly pity and feel helpless.He gave back the baby to his parents with crying.I think his tears was not because of his being arrested, it's because of the parents.They want their baby no matter how dangerous it is, and Tsotsi cannot have this happiness,so he cried sadly, so did I.

    After watching this film, I feel sympathy to Tsotsi, he did not have a healthy,happy family and a bad childhood memory,which makes him became taotsi at last.I want to ask,if Tsotsi can raise himself like hie raise the baby, will all this can be changed ?