
Dangerous Ground
- R
- Year:
- 1997
- 95 min
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Man, let me tell you something.
definitely didn't want to be-
young...
black...
and radical.
We say there will be
no education without liberation!
Stand up now with dignity!
March forward!
We are raising
our clenched fists!
Mayibuye! Afrika!
Away with the government!
Away with the regime!
We say,
"Away with Bantu education!"
We say, "Away with exploitation
and unemployment!"
We say,
"Away with matchbox houses!"
- Amandla!
- Away!
- Amandla!
- Away!
- Amandla!
- Away!
All I want is the names.
That's all I want.
How old? How old?
Thirteen?
Fourteen?
You should be out on the street
kicking a ball around...
playing soccer.
Not this!
Now listen to me,
you little kaffir.
Next time, next time...
I'll pull the trigger.
There was never a next time.
I was smuggled
out of the country...
before my next birthday...
and ended up living
in the Bay Area...
San Francisco,
but that's another story.
It was fourteen years
before I set foot...
in the land of my birth again.
I came back to bury my father...
in the beautiful hills
of the Transkei.
The thing is,
I left as an African...
and came back an American.
Ernie!
How you doing?
Oh, man.
How you doing?
Look at you.
Damn, man. You was this big
last time I seen you.
What's up?
Never mind. Come.
We have to get you changed.
No. This is what I'm wearing.
- What?
- This is it.
OK. Come.
I like the little hook-up, man.
That's where we buried Father.
He died asking for you.
Come.
Here. Take this.
What?
Take it.
I can't do that.
You have to.
You're firstborn.
Now take it.
Give me that.
I bet you don't get
that kind of beer...
where you come from.
I come from here.
I mean America.
No, thank you.
Don't tell me
you're a vegetarian now.
He's studying to be a doctor
of literature, old man...
African literature.
He's a big shot,
but in the meantime...
he's trying to keep
lowlife kids out of trouble.
Isn't that so, Vusi?
I don't deal
with lowlifes, Ernest.
I deal with young kids that
got problems like me and you.
Every month he's been
sending us dollars.
He's rich.
Gets his money from trying
to help American children...
with their drug problems...
but then his conscience
tells him...
he must study African literature
so he can keep in touch...
with our beautiful,
rich culture...
something he knows
nothing about anymore.
Ain't nothing changed.
You still as full of shit
as you was when I left.
How many times did I tell you
to come to America...
take advantage,
get an education?
There are more important
things to do-
the struggle.
But then you wouldn't know
anything about that...
living in
your cozy democracy...
Boy, I was in the struggle...
when you were still
pissing in your pants.
Bullshit!
You were a little kid
when you left.
Those were games
we were playing.
I mean, look at you.
He even sounds
like a fucking American.
"Oh, I was in the struggle. "
What bullshit!
Look. I'm here. I'm back home...
and we really don't even need
Well, you can't.
You're the one who went away...
away from all the fighting
and the struggling.
Look, they was gonna kill me!
Not you, me!
So don't tell me about
running away from the struggle.
The days of beating
are over, old man.
You know, I didn't see Steven
around the fire.
Where is he?
We haven't heard from him
for a long time.
Is he all right?
We hear from other people...
that he has a job
in Johannesburg.
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