Cry, The Beloved Country

25: John Kumalo gives a speech on apartheid to create improvement. They end with a song. John's brother, Rev. Kumalo (James Earl Jones), doesn't sing. Rev. Kumalo is trying to find his son and John provides new info as to his location. Thunder is heard, the screen fades to black. The birth of something new.

45: Fade up from a black screen, a plane lands. Grieving family at the airport. Officers inform James Jarvis (Richard Harris) they need him to identify the body and they haven't found his son's killers. They tell James that his son was their champion. The father identifies his son's body. Now that I'm aware.

-45 (141 - 45 = 56): Richard visits the boys club that his son founded for African boys to channel their energy in a positive way. Richard starts to discover just how great his son really was. Discovery.

60: Richard reads his son's writing and continues to learn who his son was and what he thought. His son believed his parents never taught him about the plight of his fellow countrymen. There's no going back now.

-25: In the garden, Rev. Kumalo tells Jarvis: "It was my son who killed your son." Jarvis: "I understand what I did not understand - there is no anger in me." Rev. Kumalo: "I saw the boy, he had a brightness in him." Subplot: Jarvis' daughter in law coldly says she doesn't care what happened to one of her servants - the Reverend inquired to resolve a task for a friend. Eventually, the Reverend suffers through the death of his son, the continued abandonment of his daughter, and a final note talks about the dawn, the fear of bondage, and the bondage of fear. The most beautiful shots of nature I've ever seen are in this movie. The final turning point.

This is one of those films that is tough to watch but you have to see it and recommend it because it goes deep into our common challenges involving man's inhumanity to man.